Archive for January, 2008
On Tuesday, Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang mentioned that Yahoo! would be looking to invest in 2008. He did not name names.
Today Tech Crunch published a rumor that Yahoo! was going to be buying a video platform for $150M. Initially the rumor suggested it would be Brightcove, who’s raised about $80M in venture money, […]
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Earlier this week, News Corp.’s Dow Jones unit signed a deal giving Microsoft the right to power search results, paid search results and contextual text ads on Wall Street Journal, Barron’s and Marketwatch.
I noted that this was a shrewd move by Rupert Murdoch to cut a deal with both Google and Microsoft, given Google’s existing […]
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During Google’s troubled earnins report (see our coverage of that here), Eric Schmidt jumped in to talk about Google’s boundaryless display and video advertising revenue opportunities. Comments Henry Blodget:
Amid battering from analysts on unit growth, CEO Schmidt jumps in to remind everyone about the display revenue and YouTube opportunities. Out of character and […]
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When Microsoft paid $240M for a 1.6% slice of Facebook, a lot of people were surprised that Google did not outbid Microsoft as it had done when it acquired Doubleclick for $3.1B.
In fact, conspiracy theorists argued that Google only showed an interest to ensure that the final price would not only reach investor Peter Thiel’s […]
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Google reported earnings and missed analyst expectations. In after hours’ trading the stock is down $45 per share - or 9% roughly - to $516. The company started off 2008 in rough terrain, going all the way down to $520 but had recovered to $560. While long term bulls will view this as an opening […]
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People are getting tired of social networking and the hangover from the overdose of exposing oneself. Shocking.
Facebook’s growth is slowing down. Shocking.
Wonder if that $15B valuation is sensible today. Nope. Yahoo! - stripped of Alibaba and Yahoo! Japan - is not worth $15B today… would you really take in Facebook’s $150M in revenues and everything […]
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Venture Beat has an interesting rundown on the “state of the ad industry” from Silicon Alley technologists and Madison Avenue advertising executives meeting at the AlwaysOn OnMedia NYC conference. There’s plenty to discuss, but one thing of note stood out:
Content vs community is emerging as a major debate:
In the TV world, advertisers attach ads […]
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Nick Carr published a piece titled The internet rewards the lazy and punishes the intrepid. Given Carr’s usual rants, I thought the title was figurative, but it was in fact literal: he’s talking about navigation systems and what not.
But the title led me to think: what ever happened to long term business planning? Are companies […]
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With the Super Bowl around the corner, pardon me for making the following sports analogy, but I could not resist.
I think Yahoo! needs to be honest with itself, and it’s not presently: Yahoo! needs to do the blocking and tackling and if it’s not willing to do so, then it needs to bring in people […]
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Posted By: Ashkan Karbasfrooshan | Jan 30th
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Part 1: Yahoo! on Deck
There will be more than enough people dissecting Yahoo!’s Q4 2007 earnings report. I will say this, however, Yahoo!’s brass is making it very easy for a hostile takeover to take place. For all of YHOO’s options:
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- status quo (a $100B market cap by 2010?)
- merger with eBay
- merger with […]
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