by Allen Weiner | January 24, 2012 | 2 Comments
Yahoo’s brand spankin’ new CEO Scott Thompson had his coming out party at what turned out to be a rather curious Q4 earnings call. The numbers are the numbers: up here, down there; news on the Microsoft Search Alliance and the usual “we’re going to try harder and do better” sort of rah-rah chatter. What [...]
Category: Yahoo Tags: Apple, Scott Thompson, Yahoo
by Allen Weiner | September 6, 2011 | 1 Comment
Some 75 days after giving CEO Carol Bartz a vote of confidence, Yahoo’s board has announced a leadership reorganization under which Timothy Morse has been named interim Chief Executive Officer, replacing Carol Bartz, who has been removed by the board. The board has also announced a newly formed Executive Leadership Council tasked with supporting Morse [...]
Category: Yahoo Tags: Alibaba, Carol Bartz, Tim Morse, Yahoo
by Allen Weiner | July 6, 2010 | Comments Off
True to its word, Yahoo is making good on two of its promises: 1) the company said it would take a new view of its role in search and 2) begin to create new content opportunities. Called into evidence is Upshot a news page on which a team of editors (two) and reporters (six) look [...]
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by Allen Weiner | February 19, 2010 | Comments Off
It is a good time to be a lawyer The U.S. Department of Justice has given its approval to the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal which will add search results from Microsoft’s Bing to Yahoo search result pages. The deal also includes Yahoo’s ability to sell premium search advertising for both companies. Yahoo has indicated it intends [...]
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Category: Uncategorized Tags: consumer search, Denny Chin, Google, Google Books, Google Editions, Yahoo
by Allen Weiner | January 27, 2010 | 1 Comment
Good news for Yahoo watchers: the company’s search-advertising and display-advertising businesses each improved from the company’s third quarter, but were down compared with the fourth quarter of 2008. Yahoo’s search-ad revenue declined 15% from a year ago, compared with a 19% drop in the third quarter. Its display-advertising revenue fell 1% from a year ago, [...]
Category: Yahoo Tags: Hilary Schneider, Jimmy Pitaro, StudioNow, Yahoo
by Allen Weiner | December 9, 2009 | Comments Off
According to this report from Reuters, Yahoo is open to selling HotJobs fir the right price. If this report is true, then I suspect Yahoo’s newspaper consortium will lose much of its momentum if not outright come to an end; there are more than 600 newspapers in the consortium and HotJobs is one of the [...]
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Category: Microsoft Mobile Newspapers Publishing Yahoo blogging citizen media Tags: Bing, Google, HotJobs, Living Stories, newspaper consortium, Yahoo
by Allen Weiner | July 29, 2009 | Comments Off
After walking halfway down the aisle with Google in 2008 in a proposed (and then scrapped) search-advertising pact, Yahoo! has inked a 10 year deal in which Microsoft will power Yahoo! search and sell self-service keywords through AdCenter while Yahoo! will become the exclusive worldwide relationship sales force for both companies’ premium search advertisers. The [...]
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Category: Television Twitter Uncategorized citizen media directories social media Tags: Bing, Microsoft, Search, Yahoo
by Allen Weiner | July 22, 2009 | Comments Off
During Yahoo’s second quarter earnings call, CEO Carol Bartz talked of her company’s many current and planned projects aimed at providing operational stability, the tools to hit the ground running when the economy recovers and offering the market a sense of “wow” related to Yahoo’s products and services. Bartz pointed to the newly unveiled homepage [...]
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Category: Search Twitter Web 2.0 Yahoo blogging social media Tags: Carol Bartz, homepage, portals, Yahoo
by Allen Weiner | July 9, 2009 | Comments Off
It’s been a month now since the launch of Bing, Microsoft’s most recent entry into the consumer search arena. In our report, “Bing Takes Wing Against All Odds,” we pointed out that the Redmond software giant was entering the game rather late and was taking on the difficult challenge of moving up from third place [...]
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Category: Search Web 2.0 Tags: Bing, Google, Micorosft, Search, Yahoo
by Allen Weiner | May 28, 2009 | 2 Comments
CEO Steve Ballmer has announced the long-speculated rebranding and relaunch of Microsoft’s consumer search service at the All Things Digital Conference. As of June 1, Live Search will become Bing (as in cherry and former Piston great and now Detroit mayor). The service is scheduled to be in preview on June 1 and will lose [...]
Category: Search Tags: Ballmer, Bing, Google, Microsoft, Search, Yahoo
