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- Can Yahoo steal the search throne from Google with Search Pad?
- Yahoo is set to launch a new search feature this week that could give the embattled company an opportunity to do what it - as well as others - have been able to do in recent years: truly challenge Google in the search business. I know. It's...
- Tags: Google Inc., Search Business, Yahoo! Inc., Search Pad, Search, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- Exec: Yahoo positioned for more efficient advertising buys
- A Yahoo executive this afternoon spent some time talking about the ad business - specifically Yahoo's approach to advertising and how it's different from that of Google and Microsoft. Joanne Bradford, a veteran media advertising executive who joined Yahoo in September as senior vice president of U.S....
- Tags: Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-06-10
- Yahoo swings to loss for Q4; focus shifts to Bartz, 2009
- updated: Looking at the bigger picture, Yahoo's fourth-quarter financial results - which includes a swing to the loss column and a drop in revenue - really doesn't mean much. After all, that was then and this is now. In the fourth quarter, Jerry Yang was running the...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Operational Accounting, Search, Sales, Finance, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-01-27
- 2008 Between the Lines
- Welcome to the year in Between the Linesâ€"in about 5 minutes I hope. 2008 was a wild one and January feels like it was 20 years ago. Here’s a brief recap…. January: The year kicks off with the usual Consumer electronics show, which is then upstaged by...
- Tags: Google Inc., Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, IT-spending Expectation, Document Management, Social Networking, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-18
- With Yang out at as Yahoo CEO; Steve Ballmer licks chops
- With Yang out at as Yahoo CEO; Steve Ballmer licks chopsMicrosoft might buy a content companyMicrosoft apparently needs help with content.Yahoo also has a search business, which would help improve market share and ad revenues. A less important but still significant bonus.I think bloggers here at ZDNet are licking...
- Tags: Schimdt, Yahoo! Inc., Steve Ballmer, Microsoft Corp., Yang, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-17
- News to know: Windows 7; Tech economy; Samsung eyes SanDisk; NetSuite
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: Windows 7 hits Milestone 3 Microsoft and Cray to unveil $25,000 Windows-based supercomputer VMware’s Datacenter OS: Windows isn’t the competition ...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, SanDisk Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., NetSuite Inc., VMware Inc., Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-17
- News to know: Google; Text messaging; Spam; Microsoft
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Learning From The Train Wreck Of Text Messaging Garett Rogers: Google wants your Hotmail, Yahoo and AOL contacts Jason Perlow: Microsoft: It's...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Text Messaging, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Spamming, Spam, E-mail, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular Phones, Security, Spam And Phishing, Online Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-09-15
- Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economy
- No CAPTCHA can survive a human that's receiving financial incentives for solving it, and with an army of low-waged human CAPTCHA solvers officially in the business of "data processing" while earning a mere $2 for solving a thousand CAPTCHA's, I'm already starting to see evidence of consolidation between India's major...
- Tags: CAPTCHA, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-08-29
- Can AOL make or break the Microsoft-Yahoo deal? Mark your calendars.
- AOL has reportedly made its way into the Microsoft-Yahoo story and, once again, there's a feeling of uncertainty surrounding its future. Back in the day, AOL was one of the biggest names on the Internet and its merger with Time Warner drew huge headlines. But since then,...
- Tags: Shareholder, Time Warner Inc., America Online Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Accounting, Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Top 10 things Michael Arrington should do to protest Microsoft's bad behavior
- Top 10 things Michael Arrington should do to protest Microsoft's bad behaviorCorrect me if I'm wrongFrom what I understand, MS has [b]zero[/b] power over Yahoo stockholders. MS made an offer, the board rejected it, and some major stockholders believe the board made a mistake. To say MS and Icahn are...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Financial accounting, Now Microsoft, Microsoft Corp., Arrington, Yahoo! Inc., Icahn, Michael Arrington, board
- Discussion threads 2008-07-08
- Yahoo posts Icahn scoreboard; Touts Google pact to shareholders
- Yahoo on Monday filed its shareholder pitch with the Securities and Exchange Commission as its proxy fight with activist investor Carl Icahn gathers steam. Much of the presentation was designed to "correct the record" on everything from the company's compensation plan to how the Microsoft bid went down. But Yahoo...
- Tags: Shareholder, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Reorg, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-30
- Yang's recovery runway: Months to days (and board should go too)
- Yang's recovery runway: Months to days and board should go tooCould not agree more, but, that won't save Yang. He will be out soon.The MS offer and Icahn basically destroyed what was left of Yahoo.That is not what those leaving....are saying. They are making it very clear they are disappointed...
- Tags: Corporate governance, board, Yahoo! Inc., Yang, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- Yahoo's Google ad deal: Savior or mistake?
- Yahoo has made it official: It is teaming up with Google on search advertising, but the ripple effects--both short-term and long-term--are just beginning. The two companies have announced a broad agreement where Yahoo uses Google's text advertising, but stops short of completely outsourcing search. Among the key...
- Tags: Advertisement, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Management, Strategy, Termination Fee, Text Advertising Business, Yahoo! Inc.
- Blog posts 2008-06-12
- Yahoo nears Google search deal; Icahn's plan goes kaput
- Yahoo nears Google search deal; Icahn's plan goes kaputWhat happens if...Icahn's slate wins this is still a serious possibility and MS still isn't interested in buying, or would only be willing at a greatly reduced price? I would think that Icahn would have no choice but to run Yahoo...
- Tags: Financial accounting, Investment, Yang, Google Search, Yahoo! Inc., Icahn, Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-12
- Carl and Yahoo's dueling banjo routine gets old
- See Carl Icahn blast Jerry Yang and Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock over a compensation plan to fend off a Microsoft bid. See Roy tell Carl he's manipulating facts and using allegations from a complaint that has no merit. See Larry's eyes glaze over. Anyone else sick of...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-05
- Icahn: I want Yang gone from Yahoo
- Icahn: I want Yang gone from YahooThat's grounds for white collar crime.The illegal hiding of important facts from shareholders is basically a criminal act.Let's hope the REAL OWNERS the shareholder get to do what they want, and not what Yang wants.RE: Icahn: I want Yang gone from YahooWhile the stockholders...
- Tags: Corporate governance, E-mail providers, Yahoo! Inc., Icahn, Yang, Balmer, shareholder, board, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-06-03
- Microsoft: We don't have to buy Yahoo outright; Is it joint venture time?
- Updated with Yahoo response, more on potential search deal: Microsoft on Sunday issued a statement that opens the door to a partnership with Yahoo, but not an acquisition. Now Microsoft is talking some sense Techmeme. The 20-second version of this Microhoo drama so far....
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Decision Matrix, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Search, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-05-19
- Microsoft and Yahoo: A new deal in the works?
- Microsoft is talking to Yahoo again -- but not about an acquisition of all of Yahoo this time around. The pair are back to discussing some other kind of transaction that could involve the two companies. Here's Microsoft's official statement on the matter: “In light of...
- Tags: Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-05-18
- BriefingsDirect Insights analysts probe future of online advertising and find transactional lucre lurking
- Read a full transcript of the podcast. The future of online advertising captures the headlines and attention when the likes of Microsoft courts the likes of Yahoo! And Wall Street still has a hard time figuring out how much Google is worth, based on just those little...
- Tags: Software, Advertisement, Business, Online Advertising, Bookkeeping Service, Dana Gardner
- Blog posts 2008-05-15
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