Yahoo's Yang Missed Opportunity to Get Premium for Asian Stakes
Bloomberg - 28 minutes agoOct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Yahoo! Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jerry Yang missed his chance to get top dollar for the company's stakes in Asian Internet firms.
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Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Yahoo! Inc. Chief Executive Officer Jerry Yang missed his chance to get top dollar for the company's stakes in Asian Internet firms.
Google and Yahoo will delay implementation of their joint advertising deal to give antitrust lawyers at the Justice Department more time to review the agreement, the companies said yesterday.
Google’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, repeated on Wednesday that he planned to introduce an advertising partnership with Yahoo early next month, whether or not regulators have finished reviewing the controversial pact.
Google and Yahoo have agreed to a “brief” delay in the planned start of their search advertising partnership to give the Justice Department additional time to investigate the antitrust implications of the deal, the companies said Friday.
The companies announced in June their nonexclusive advertising deal, which would allow Google to run ads alongside Yahoo search results.
The buzz around Washington is that the Justice Department will rule on whether to approve the Google-Yahoo advertising pact by late next week.
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Google Inc. agreed to delay the start of a Web advertising partnership with rival Yahoo Inc., giving U.S. antitrust regulators more time to review the deal. Under a plan announced in June, Google would provide advertising next to some of Yahoo's search results. The companies voluntarily held off for three months to give regulators time to assess whether the alliance will hurt competition. ...
Google and Yahoo will further delay their controversial search-advertising deal in the face of an ongoing investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. "When we announced our advertising agreement with Yahoo in June we agreed to delay its implementation until October to give regulators time to look at the details," Google said on Friday. "As we are still in conversation with the ...
Google and Yahoo will delay implementation of their joint advertising deal to give antitrust lawyers at the Justice Department more time to review the agreement, the companies said.
Kevin Maney muses: What's it going to take to stop Google in search? It's not apparent right now.Yahoo Search is never going to do it, because Yahoo essentially offers the same kind of search and same kind of results as Google, and Google has become a habit while Yahoo has not.
In a couple of weeks, the heavily-criticized search ad partnership between Google and Yahoo are supposed to materialize. But perhaps not wanting to face further issues, the two search giants decided to wait for the Justice Department to finish their study first. According to a Yahoo spokesman, the deal was delayed a bit to pursue their [...]
Google and Yahoo might be singing the praises of their ad deal on a newly created Web site, but the chairman of a Senate antitrust subcommittee said Thursday that the arrangement could pose a threat to competition.
Things are finally getting serious in the industry-wide debate over the Yahoo-Google deal. When the two companies announced their blockbuster ad deal in June, they said that they would wait three and a half months before putting it in place, giving regulators a chance to review it.
With the DOJ expressing skepticism over Yahoo's agreement to sell search ad space to its biggest competitor, a letter from a key US senator urging action could be preaching to the choir. What's interesting is that senator's theory.
Yahoo Inc's deal to put some Google Inc ads on its searches may hurt the industry, and warrants monitoring by the U.S. Justice Department even if the agency eventually approves the deal, according to the top lawmaker on the Senate's antitrust panel.