Archive for the 'Asia' Category
Yesterday, BubbleGeneration’s Umair Haque set off a storm by suggesting that tech blog networks are peaking. I agree that the signal-to-noise ratio in the technology blog network space has gone down considerably. While many of these blogs are hiring from traditional media, established publications are firing back with their own blogs and blog […]
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Update: We posted this last night. Since then, Softbank says “thanks, but we’ll pass, too.” Perhaps it’s not a coincidence that Yahoo!’s Board will make its call today, supposedly.
Softbank owns 3.9% of Yahoo! US, and it owns 40% of Yahoo! Japan. Yahoo! owns 30% of Yahoo! Japan.
Yahoo! - via Yahoo! Japan and Alibaba (in […]
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In Could Jerry Yang be that Much of a Yahoo?, I wrote:
If Yahoo! outsources search to Google, it only adds velocity to Google’s firepower, bear in mind, Google’s growth rate is falling. Google here needs Yahoo! more than Yahoo! needs Google. What Google needs, it the financial firepower and resources of Microsoft. Oh, it also […]
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One of the other arguments in the “YHOO should remain independent”camp is that Yahoo! Asian Alliance Agreement.
In essence, it argues that Yahoo! can somehow:
1- spin off Alibaba and / or Yahoo! Japan.
The problem here is that such sales would not be tax-free. The company can look into something called the Morris Trust act, but […]
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