Once Display’s Ad Sales Leader, Trends Now Favor Yahoo Rivals
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Barring some explosive revelation, Carol Bartz is out as CEO of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) because she couldn’t show any way up. During the Q2 earni… Read more »
Here’s The New Yahoo Leadership Structure (For Now)
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More than an hour after the news broke that Carol Bartz was out as CEO of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), the board finally has weighed in with details… Read more »
Updated: Bartz Out At Yahoo; Fired Over The Phone
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Push has finally come to shove at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). Kara Swisher reports that Carol Bartz is out at Yahoo and that CFO Tim Morse is interi… Read more »
LiveJournal Owner Sup Wants To Sell A Stake; Yahoo In The Frame?
Is Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) about to buy itself a slice of the fast-growing Russian online content, advertising and networking space?
Sup, which… Read more »
Gannett Expands Yahoo Ad Alliance To All Its Local TV Stations
A little over a year after Gannett (NYSE: GCI) and Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) teamed up on local ads sales primarily for the publisher’s 81 communit… Read more »
Mobile Advertising: Personalized Ads, Coupons Score With Users
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The controversy about location-tracking on mobile devices, and the subsequent emphasis on location-based services in mobile advertising, may… Read more »
Yahoo Teams With Belo On TV Stations Display Sales
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) will expand its display ad sales deal with local TV station operator Belo Corp. (NYSE: BLC) to 15 of the Dallas-based bro… Read more »
Microsoft To Take Over Yahoo Search Results In Europe
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As of this week, the internet will have three competing search engines in name only. On August 3, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) will stop serving up it… Read more »
Yahoo, Alibaba, Softbank Reach Agreement On Alipay
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The battle over what to do with Alipay among the three interests involved — Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 07-29-11
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» Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Alibaba reach Alipay agreement (Release)
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Yahoo Unveils New Private Marketplace For Right Media
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Although the use of ad exchanges by marketers and agencies have been growing rapidly the last year, the one part of the media buying and sel… Read more »
Investors Cold To Latest AOL Re-Shuffle
How long before investors lose patience with AOL (NYSE: AOL) CEO Tim Armstrong? The former Google (NSDQ: GOOG) ad executive assumed control… Read more »
Yahoo Revenues Hobbled By Hobbled By Display Ad Sales Changes
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) pinned its 23 percent revenue decline on the divestiture of HotJobs and on changes to the search agreement with Microsoft… Read more »
Yahoo Helps Boost Digital At Local Gannett Papers; USAT Digital Revs Jump
The growth rate for Gannett’s local newspaper websites’ ad revenues in Q2 have held steady with last year’s results, thanks in part to the s… Read more »
Google Earnings Preview: All Eyes On Mobile, Social, Local (and Larry)
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Wall Street analysts expect Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to deliver solid earnings results Thursday afternoon, but investors who have seen the compan… Read more »
Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital Sells Yahoo Stake After Alipay Debacle
Greenlight Capital chief David Einhorn, who made his reputation short-selling Lehman Bros. before its collapse, raised eyebrows earlier this… Read more »
Yahoo, AOL Homepage Ad Gains Appear To Stall, As YouTube Diversifies
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Although display advertising growth is as strong as ever, efforts to draw more advertisers to lucrative homepage ads fell flat in Q2 compare… Read more »
See You Later, Realtime: Google Ends Twitter Search Deal, For Now
If you’ve been using Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to search for subjects across the web and on Twitter at the same time, you are out of luck, for now… Read more »
Pottermore.com’s Biggest Losers (Plus One Surprise Winner)
Pottermore.com is great news for Harry Potter fans, who have not been able to read the series in digital form until now; for J. K. Rowling,… Read more »
Yahoo Board Backs CEO Bartz Amid Questions From Testy Shareholders
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The big question at Yahoo’s annual shareholder meetings over the last couple of years has been when the clock will run out on Carol Bartz. T… Read more »
Yahoo Invites Users To Watch Cat Deeley Get Dressed
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has signed on to show a fly-on-the-wall original web video series following Cat Deeley as she gets made up to host each e… Read more »
Is Hulu In Play Or Just Jumping Through Hoops?
Someone wants Hulu to be in play — or at least the idea of a possible sale to be very public. The Wall Street Journal reported late Tuesday… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-16-11: Sony Tablets, Yahoo App Search And Sprint
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
–Sony: Sony (NYSE: SNE) has yet to give specific details on when and where we will firs… Read more »
Google And Admeld: Pressure Is On Display Competitors — And Publishers
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Unless the regulatory process is somehow speeded up in the case of Google’s latest acquisition of Admeld, the estimated $400 million deal th… Read more »
What’s Up With MySpace (And Why Isn’t Yahoo Interested)?
Is the MySpace sale saga nearing a close? News Corp (NSDQ: NWS). may finally be near the end of the painful process of finding a resolution… Read more »
Mobile Lowdown 6-9-11: HP TouchPad; Apple’s App Store Slam; YouTube Mobile
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: HP (NYSE: HPQ) finally gives the release date for its TouchPad tablet; Apple (NSDQ: AAP… Read more »
Who Says No To AT&T/T-Mo? Facebook, Microsoft, Six Others Say Yes
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As AT&T (NYSE: T) and T-Mobile USA continue to work their way through regulatory approval of their proposed $39 billion merger, it looks lik… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 06-06-11
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» Penry Price to Leave Google (NSDQ: GOOG) for Startup Media6Degrees (AdAge)
» As Digital-Ad Techniques Proliferate,… Read more »
Yahoo’s Levinsohn: ‘I’m Not Crazy’
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Three Junes ago, Ross Levinsohn and his investment partner Jon Miller were caught up in the drama of Yahoo as Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) tried t… Read more »
Google’s China Crisis Deepens With Gmail Hacking Incident
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Google’s standoff with China over censorship in search in 2010 was a lowpoint in the search engine’s ambitions to expand to the East, but a… Read more »
@ D9: Alibaba’s Jack Ma: ‘Peace Talks Are Always Difficult’
Alibaba Group CEO Jack Ma wants Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and SoftBank to give up some of their stake in the Chinese internet company. “We want to… Read more »
Online Ad Spend Continued To Surge In Q1; Google Overtakes Yahoo In Display
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Following last year’s dramatic comeback in online ad spending, the industry was expecting things to cool down this year. So far, that hasn’t… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 05-24-11
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» Dish CEO Says DirecTV (NYSE: DTV) Merger Possible in Regulatory Environment (Bloomberg)
» Don’t Blame the WSJ for t… Read more »
Startups Join Facebook And Google In Protesting California Privacy Bill
The California Legislature is very late-as usual-with its annual budget. But lawmakers’ inability to pass a budget probably won’t stop them… Read more »
Yahoo Looks To Summer Blockbusters For Homepage Ad Boost
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) started rolling out homepage takeover ads this past weekend for Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides as t… Read more »
Why Google Hasn’t Implemented A ‘Do Not Track’ Feature
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Three of the four main browser companies–Mozilla, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), and Apple–either have or will soon have in their browsers a Do N… Read more »
Yahoo Buys Online Ad Startup 5to1 For $28 Million
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is paying $28 million for 5to1, an online ad marketplace that lets top brand advertisers purchase unsold premium inventor… Read more »
Yahoo’s Balogh Resurfaces At StumbleUpon
Ari Balogh, the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CTO and EVP of products who left the company a year ago, is joining StumbleUpon as its VP of engineering.… Read more »
Yahoo And Alibaba Tussle Over Alipay Handoff
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The Alibaba-Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) “he says, she says” continues: Yahoo, which already had an embattled relationship with Chinese e-commerce gia… Read more »
The Morning Lowdown 05-13-11
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» Hulu, Networks Close To New Deal (MediaMemo)
» New App Rules Cause Ripples (WSJ)
» Alibaba CEO Lu Says… Read more »
