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What Yahoo's Right Media purchase is really about

Yahoo acquires Right Media and we hear about the democratization of online advertising, a few thinly-veiled Google barbs and some tough talk from the likes of Yahoo CEO Terry Semel and CFO Susan Decker. I dont doubt that Right Media is...

Tags: Yahoo, Web Technology, Google, General

Blog posts 2007-04-30

Yahoo's challenge: Getting the social Web right

At the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, John Battelle talked with Jeff Weiner, executive vice president of Yahoo’s Network Division, talked about Yahoos opportunity to turn its half a billion user base into a more closely connected community spending lots of time on Yahoos network and competing against Google....

Tags: Web Technology, Yahoo, Social networking, Google, General

Blog posts 2007-04-18

Yahoo ups mobile search ante

The next search battleground is your mobile phone. Yahoo announced Tuesday Yahoo oneSearch see gallery, a mobile search designed to deliver instant answers that serve relevant information. The service is available on 85 percent of the mobile phones and is...

Tags: SEARCH, mobile search, mobile marketing, Yahoo! Inc., movie, Yahoos

Blog posts 2007-03-20

Yahoo's Panama out of the gate strong, but ...

ComScore is out with a report that shows Yahoos Panama search advertising system is off to a swell start. How swell? In the two weeks since Panamas launch click through rates were up 5 percent and 9 percent. For Yahoo,...

Tags: Yahoo, Web Technology, Google, Search, General

Blog posts 2007-02-26

Microsoft search gets lapped

Most bloggers are focused on Googles dominant search share (is it 50 percent or 70 percent), but what sticks out most is the free fall Microsoft is suffering...

Tags: Googles November, Microsoft, Google, General, Search

Blog posts 2006-12-20

Yahoo calls BS on the reorg

Yahoos are starting to fight back. And why shouldnt Yahoos fight back. The reaction to Yahoos reorg was arguably overdone. The consensus: The reorg didnt go far enough. Allegedly inside accounts portray mass dysfunction. CEO Terry Semel should have gotten the boot. Yahoo is no Google (who is?) yadda yadda...

Tags: Yahoos, Yahoo! Inc., Google, Web Technology, General

Blog posts 2006-12-07

Reaction to Yahoo reorg decidedly mixed

Wall Street has spoken on the Yahoo reorganization--and its not sure what to make of it yet. Some analysts say the moves dont address Yahoos technology gap against rivals while others were more optimistic. All agree that Yahoo cant allow the management changes to be a...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Web Technology, General

Blog posts 2006-12-06

Yahoo's leadership and identity crisis sparked by Google

Yahoos hastily engineered reorganization does away with key leaders within the company:Chief Operating Officer Dan Rosensweig and Lloyd Braun, the head of Yahoos media and entertainment group, are leaving the company, Yahoo spokeswoman Joanna Stevens said. John Marcom, senior vice president of International Operations, is also leaving the company "soon,"...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Yahoo, Search, Google

Blog posts 2006-12-06

NEWS: Two top Yahoo execs to leave in reorg

Yahoos chief operating officer and the head of its entertainment group are leaving as part of a major reorganization announced late on Tuesday. Chief Operating Officer Dan Rosensweig and Lloyd Braun, the head of Yahoos media and entertainment group, are leaving the company, Yahoo spokeswoman Joanna Stevens said. John Marcom,...

Tags: Yahoos, Home

Blog posts 2006-12-05

NEWS: Two top Yahoo execs to leave in reorg

Yahoos chief operating officer and the head of its entertainment group are leaving as part of a major reorganization announced late on Tuesday. Chief Operating Officer Dan Rosensweig and Lloyd Braun, the head of Yahoos media and entertainment group, are leaving the company, Yahoo spokeswoman Joanna Stevens said. John Marcom,...

Tags: Yahoos, General

Blog posts 2006-12-05

Analyst: Yahoo's Panama project making headway

Yahoos new ad platform, dubbed Panama, appears to be making progress, according to a report by UBS analyst Benjamin Schachter. In a research note, Schachter said "Yahoo is ramping up efforts to migrate advertisers to the new user interface (campaign management...

Tags: Yahoos, Benjamin Schachter

Blog posts 2006-11-20

Is Yahoo's glut Google's opportunity?

The dismal is on Yahoo after it announced a 20 percent increase in revenue compared to the previous years quarter. Google, expected to grab as much as 25 percent of the online ad market in the quarter is succeeding by doing one thing that Yahoo hasnt on its "on-network" properties:...

Tags: Google Inc., advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Yahoos, advertiser, network

Blog posts 2006-10-18

del.icio.us founder (and MIT top innovator) Joshua Schachter Unplugged

Most people dont know who Joshua Schachter is. But as of recently, when the popular social bookmarking service he invented (known as del.icio.us) gained its 1,000,000th registered user, there are clearly plenty of Internet users who are familiar with his handiwork. In December 2005, del.icio.us was acquired by Yahoo and...

Tags: del.icio.us, Joshua Schachter

Blog posts 2006-10-03

Additional Resources

Microsoft finalizes Windows XP for OLPC laptops

Microsoft finalizes Windows XP for OLPC laptopsjust thinknow instead of being stuck in a little puddle they can go out there and swim in the ocean of windows applications like the rest of us - a zillion kids just smiledlinuxhelp.net:~# apt-get install mozilla-firefoxReading Package Lists... DoneBuilding Dependency Tree... DoneThe following...

Tags: Operating systems, Vista-64, Microsoft Windows XP, One Laptop Per Child project, Microsoft Corp., OLPC Laptop, Microsoft Windows

Discussion threads 2008-07-25

Microsoft's "flat Earth" ad falls flat for me

Microsoft's "flat Earth" ad falls flat for meI have to agree: The flat Earth thing is funny.Unlike Vista, no one changed the Earth in an attempt to prove the common belief wrong.Microsoft's "flat Earth" ad falls flat for meTom Servo!Crow!The ads aren't that bad, it's just retro.RE: Microsoft'si mentioned all...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), App£e, Microsoft Windows Vista, advertisement, flat-Earth, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-22

Legg Mason takes Yahoo's side vs. Icahn; Yang takes campaign to home page

Legg Mason takes Yahoo's side vs. Icahn; Yang takes campaign to home pageStock Tip: Get out of Legg Mason fundsTime to put down the crack pipe Legg Mason."We would prefer that the company and Mr. Icahn reach a mutual agreement on the composition of the Board and end this disruptive...

Tags: Corporate governance, Legg Mason Inc., Icahn, board, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-19

Microsoft's never-ending pursuit of Yahoo: More awkward than an 8th grade dance

Microsoft's never-ending pursuit of Yahoo: More awkward than an 8th grade danceCorporate Communism!This is an example of what I call Corportate Communism. Microsoft is showing it's anti-capitalist leanings. When companies like Microsoft can't compete in the market, they buy the competitor. Some argue that's capitalism. I...

Tags: Mergers & Acquisitions, Government, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-07-02

News to know: Google-Yahoo; Twitter; IE8; Cable follies

Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Yahoo's Google ad deal: Savior or mistake? Icahn's plan goes kaput as Microsoft talks end Garett Rogers: Microsoft and Yahoo stop talking, and Google wins Mary Jo Foley: Yahoo says it won't sell its search biz to Microsoft...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cable, Twitter, Icahn, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Workforce Management, Hacking, Security, Human Resources, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-06-13

More things about the Microsoft-Yahoo deal that make you go hmmmm

More things about the Microsoft-Yahoo deal that make you go hmmmmYang regretful?First there is an error Mary, MSFT made an offer in Jan. 2007 for $40 a share not $40b. Yang sounds regretful. You are right, but everybody know what it means. Important thing is why MSFT has lost interest....

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., MSFT, Yang, Microsoft Corp., shareholder

Discussion threads 2008-06-03

Jerry Yang is busy...Writing email

Yahoo filed its internal communications about Carl Icahn's proxy war plans with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The takeaway: Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has been writing a lot of emails. To senior vice presidents at Yahoo, Yang delivered a few talking points following Icahn's first volley and...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Annual Meeting, Board, Carl Icahn, E-mail, Stockholder, Director, Company, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-05-16