Yahoo’s Woes

Here’s an article from Hollywood Reporter on Yahoo’s woes. I still think Yahoo has some great assets, but it is doing a very poor job of leveraging them. Here are some levers I would focus on, to deliver Yahoo out of the muck: (a) MyYahoo : Tying personalization with the in-house systems of advertisers could

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Yahoo, Think Different!

Yahoo’s Q3 performance comes in at less than satisfactory. As usual, they’re chasing Google’s tail, trying to acquire Facebook, following Google’s example of the YouTube acquisition. Yahoo did something yesterday, however, that I like a lot. They took a 20% stake in RightMedia, an Ad auction marketplace. I would make another move, as follows: acquire

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Hurd’s First Major Acquisition

WSJ reports: HP to buy Mercury. Consolidation continues in the technology business. Good analysis here.