Archive for the 'About.com' Category
You try not to read too much into this, but NYT is being pursued by activist shareholders, then its subsidiary About.com sees its CEO Scott Meyer resign… the company line is that this was amicable and planned.
Maybe. But then why is NYT Digital dean Martin Nisenholtz taking over?
I don’t know… but maybe I should go […]
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For the longest time, I’ve been hinting at private equity firms to give me a call so we can rescue Yahoo! That might happen, it might not. But to pull that off, you need a good $40B or so. With Yahoo! at $25B - and reporting earnings as we speak - it […]
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Shareholder activism.
Get used to it. Something tells me that we’re going to see more and more of this. As a Yahoo! shareholder with a 6-digit investment in the company, I am personally growing tired of Yahoo!’s direction, management and rhetoric. Last week I published a post called “Memo to Yahoo!: Barbarians at […]
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Within the last eight months, About.com has made two acquisitions and today made its third one, according to the NYT.
One was a Web site that provides access to information about hospitals, nursing homes, clinics and doctors, UCompareHealthCare.com.
The other was a site that offers weight-loss tools and nutritional information, Calorie-Count.com.
Today’s acquisition was for ConsumerSearch.com, a Web site […]
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