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Facebook And Skype To Integrate With Google Voice
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 - 11:01am | 142Read More...Facebook and Skype may team up with Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) Voice to take over the communicative world. Facebook's goal, according to sources: To mesh communications and community more tightly together and add more tools to allow users to do so, according to All Things Digital. All Things Digital...
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Early September Showing Signs Of Hope For Yahoo
Tuesday, September 21, 2010 - 7:26am | 149Read More...Re.: Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO), it is noted by Piper Jaffray that "Last month, [we] noted that our proprietary checks of ad sell through on Yahoo!'s homepage, along with discussions with two large display ad sellers, indicated that the display markets were softening. Through 20 days in September,...
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Carol Bartz Hosting Amateur Hour at Yahoo!
Monday, September 20, 2010 - 11:03am | 281Read More...Chief Executive Of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) Carol Bartz has continued the trend of picking up where her predecessor, co-founder Jerry Yang left off, according to Barron's. Barron's reports that "[Bartz] hasn't articulated a comprehensive turnaround plan or jump-started Yahoo! shares, [but] seems to be...
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Yahoo Japan Scoops Up Location-based Mobile Ad Firm Cirius
Monday, August 16, 2010 - 11:10am | 82Read More...Yahoo, Inc (NASDAQ: YHOO) Japan (PINK:YAHOY) has acquired ad firm Cirius Technologies. Cirius is based in Tokyo and operates AdLocal, a service that targets consumers with ads. Cirius has about 30 employees. After the acquisition, Cirius will close its U.S. office in Sunnyvale, Calif. Terms of...
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Microsoft (MSFT) Yahoo ( YHOO) Search Deal Approved
Thursday, February 18, 2010 - 12:09pm | 91Read More...Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) reported on Thursday morning that the search agreement the two company's made in July 2009 has been approved by the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission. The deal will see Microsoft taking over much of Yahoo's...
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Monster.com (MWW) To Buy Yahoo's (YHOO) HotJobs For $225 Million
Wednesday, February 3, 2010 - 5:43pm | 87Read More...Monster Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE: MWW), owner of the Monster.com job website, announced that it will buy its Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) owned competitor, HotJobs, for $225 million in cash. Monster Worldwide and Yahoo also agreed to terms on a three year “commercial traffic agreement” that would see...
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EC Sets Deadline For Decision On Microsoft-Yahoo Deal
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 4:50pm | 167Read More...The European Commission set February 19 as the deadline for it to issue a decision on its antitrust review of the search and advertising partnership that Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) plan. Microsoft and Yahoo plan to use Microsoft technology to power Yahoo internet...
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4th Quarter Strength Expected For Online Advertising and eCommerce
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 11:56am | 334Read More...Last week Kaufman Bros. hosted an online advertising panel made up of the executives from leading ad agencies, SEM agencies and the Online Publishers Association. The panelists expected a strong 4th quarter for internet search advertising. The SEM agencies expected 10% to 15% Q/Q growth in U.S....
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RBC Capital Markets Sets $670 Google Target Price
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 10:40am | 169Read More...RBC Capital Markets rated Google Inc. (Nasdaq: GOOG) an "Outperform" and set a price target of $670 for the company's stock, which was trading around $580 before the report was released. The analysts arrived at the $670 target price by using P/E, EV/EBTIDA, and FCF yield and applying them to their...
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Microsoft To Reduce Private Consumer Data Retention
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 - 8:50am | 217Read More...Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) kept its promise to strengthen its consumer privacy rules when the company announced that it would reduce the amount of time that it holds customers' internet search data. The company will "delete the entire Internet Protocol address associated with search queries at...
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Alibaba Blasts Yahoo's Support Of Google
Saturday, January 16, 2010 - 4:25pm | 207Read More...Yahoo Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) received a stinging rebuke when Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company that Yahoo holds a 39% stake in, turned against its biggest shareholder by publicly criticizing Yahoo's support of Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) recent decision to stop censoring internet searches on...
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Rivals Continue To Gain On Yahoo
Saturday, January 16, 2010 - 3:00pm | 194Read More...Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) continued to lose market share in December to rivals Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) and Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT). Yahoo's share of internet searches in December fell from 17.5% to 17.3%. Microsoft Bing has risen steadily since June, when its market share stood at 8%. By November it held...
