Henry Blodget, the former stock analyst who kicks himself every day for still being a Yahoo shareholder, notes that Yahoo spent $37 million on advisory fees in the third quarter.
aft news / Henry Blodget, the former stock analyst who kicks himself every day for still being a Yahoo shareholder, notes that Yahoo spent $37 million on advisory fees in the third quarter. What did it get? A botched Microsoft buyout; a search deal with Google that’s getting a rough reception by antitrust cops in Washington, D.C.; and Carl Icahn on its board — a man Jerry Yang and company called a technological nincompoop on Yahoo’s own homepage. In other words, nothing — save for cutting its operating income by more than a third. That $37 million did, however, result in one concrete cost-saving initiative. Rest and Source
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Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. will start a high-profile advertising partnership by early October, even if federal regulators haven’t yet approved the deal, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Thursday.
Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. will start a high-profile advertising partnership by early October, even if federal regulators haven’t yet approved the deal, Google CEO Eric Schmidt said Thursday.
“We are going to move forward with it,” Schmidt said in an interview on Bloomberg television after being asked whether the companies would wait for the Justice Department to complete its review.
Schmidt’s comments indicate that the deal, outlined in June, is full steam ahead. Under the agreement, Google will supply Yahoo with online advertisements that are expected to generate an additional $800 million in annual revenue for Yahoo and help prop up its slumping finances.
To deflect criticism about the No. 1 and No. 2 search engines teaming up, the companies said they would give the Justice Department 3 and a half months to review the deal, although they weren’t required to do so because it does not involve an acquisition. Schmidt’s comments indicate that they won’t wait any longer to implement the partnership.
A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment on the status of its Google-Yahoo review.
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Thanks to Google’s unquestioned domination, the not-so-wide world of search makes for uninteresting competition. But while Yahoo, Ask, and now Cuil duke it out for whatever scraps of market share they can get, specialized search engines are aggressively trying to outwit the master.
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To Sponsor Bloggers Doesn’t Work
Even Robert Scoble couldn’t save Seagate. Almost a year after the hard-drive maker renewed a sponsorship deal with the prolific blogger, its stock is down 35 percent. Archrival Western Digital, meanwhile, is up 40 percent. So much for the profession of “influencer marketing,” a field which has exploded since the 2000 publication of Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point and the subsequent work The Influentials. These books, translated into action by marketers, have prompted companies from AT&T to Yahoo to hire executives expressly to suck up to bloggers. Seagate’s Scoble sponsorship is the purest expression of this trend. And the best illustration of why it doesn’t work.
Will either Jerry Yang or Steve Ballmer still be in their CEO chairs this time next year?
Will either Jerry Yang or Steve Ballmer still be in their CEO chairs this time next year? Both have thoroughly embarrassed themselves in their handling of Microsoft’s on-again, off-again, on-again, off-again acquisition talks with Yahoo. The tide of public opinion, at long last, may be turning Yang’s way. In an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin of the NY Times, he has at last articulated a reason for being CEO: Without him, he argues, Yahoo would be lost.
Several states have opened antitrust investigations into a cooperative advertising pact struck last month by Google and Yahoo, according to sources familiar with the inquiries.
Several states have opened antitrust investigations into a cooperative advertising pact struck last month by Google and Yahoo, according to sources familiar with the inquiries.
About a dozen states are closely reviewing the agreement, which joins two of the world’s most dominant Internet companies. Connecticut, Florida and at least two other states, have issued subpoenas or other compulsory requests for documents, the sources said. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they aren’t authorized to comment publicly on the matter.
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