Yahoo's Yang Missed Opportunity to Get Premium for Asian Stakes
Bloomberg - 22 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.
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.
Fri, Oct 3, 2008 (4:27 p.m.) 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.
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.
The chairman of the U.S. Senate's antitrust committee is recommending any deal between Google and Yahoo receive ongoing scrutiny from the Department of Justice.
Advertisers and lawmakers, along with Google and Yahoo executives, are eagerly awaiting a decision from the Department of Justice on the Internet search giants' ad agreement. The DOJ is expected to decide by mid-October whether Google can provide Yahoo with search advertisements.
A key senator is urging the Justice Department to keep up its investigation into the antitrust implications of the Internet advertising partnership that Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. plan to launch this month. In a letter Thursday, Wisconsin Democrat Herb Kohl,...
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and AOL are all at very different stages of corporate life, and often don't focus on the same things. All of the companies have expressed an interest in the mobile market, however, and so as marketers consider matching this, a session at SMX East was called "Search and the iPhone." read more
Ask.com hopes to take advantage of all the shenanigans between Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google to get a bigger share of the Internet search market.
Happy New Year to those of you who celebrate! This week, the holiday commenced and now we're swamped but we still have to give you our recap. Without further ado, here you go: Coincidence: Search Updates Around Holiday Time? As you may have read thus far, we celebrated Rosh Hashana and also noticed that Google PageRank has updated. On a somewhat related note, Yahoo's results are being ...
To be fair, the whole market was dragged down today due to worries about a deepening recession. But Yahoo's ever-decreasing share price has got to have the company and its investors mighty worried.
Ask's share of the search market is lacking, to say the least; deficiencies in both the tech and PR departments have long kept it fundamentally distinct from Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft. But an overhaul and ad campaign seek to fix all that. read more
Five months after starting a company to personalize and brand Web browsers, Patrick Murphy has scrapped a revenue model that brings in thousands of dollars per job in favor of one that brings in nickels and dimes.