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As has been reported at length, Yahoo’s board fired the company’s CEO, who fired back with an infamous email and a furious interview with Fortune. Yahoo’s board is now rumored to be considering spinoffs, divestitures, or a buyout, especially with the encouragement of their 5.1% owner, the activist hedge fund Third Point.
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I’m pleased to announce that I’m joining Yahoo as SEO Lead.
At Digital DD, we puzzled through the strategies behind some of the biggest SEO companies out there. But Yahoo is an order of magnitude bigger. They have over a hundred million monthly uniques; if I improve things by 1%, I’ve affected the lives of…
What the Crash Means
Investors should prepare for an economic and financial climate as bleak and unforgiving as last September, when the S&P was about where it is now.
Outsourced Pessimism
The irrepressible Jason Calacanis has a fairly new blog covering tech stories. Calacanis has long been notorious in the SEO field for
LivingSocial Updates
Even a few months ago, LivingSocial seemed like the definition of an also-ran: Groupon got PR, small group-buying competitors got PR, and when those small companies got written up, LivingSocial could hope that the phrase “Like Groupon and LivingSocial” would appear somewhere in the copy.
But they’ve recently been recognized as a player…
If there’s one way to sum up the resurgence of display advertising compared to search advertising in the last few years, it would be this: Display is finally a market. Like a financial security that can be split, swapped, sliced, diced, packaged, unpackaged, and hedged, ad space is being matched to the exact right bidder,…
Alipay Settlement Doesn’t Impress Yahoo Shareholders
Yahoo’s Alipay settlement, announced early Friday morning, initially pushed the stock up. By the end of the day, Yahoo was down slightly. This was due, in part, to negative comments from analysts, who are still concerned that Yahoo essentially gave away part of an extremely valuable business.
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Quarterly Earnings Update
A few search- and social-driven companies have reported their earnings this quarter. An update:
Overstock.com had weak sales growth and lower gross margins, with a drop in sales and marketing expenses and an increase in technology spending. The press release has details. Early in the quarter, they were penalized by Google, which may be…
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