Entries in Yahoo (3)

Somebody Buy Yahoo Already!

AOL may do what Microsoft has been unable to: buy Yahoo. Meanwhile, News Corp. may join Microsoft in their bid for the big Y in the sky. Both companies seem to be thrashing about a bit in an effort to buy some innovation and interest. That's certainly been the strategy at Yahoo. It will be fun to see how this plays out. I certainly wouldn't count out Microsoft just yet, especially with the assistance of Murdoch and Co.
Posted on Wednesday, April 9 by Registered CommenterCortland Coleman in , , , , | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail

Sue Decker Still Matters, Just Not As Much

Yahoo president Sue Decker was recently featured in a Business 2.0 article entitled "The 50 Who Matter Now." Sue had a great write-up and she was ranked at #7.  However, this has to hurt:

In the new role, her not-small task is to reposition Yahoo by tweaking its Panama ad system to deliver more customers to advertisers and more profit to publishers. Amid growing nervousness about Google's dominance, Decker has a real opportunity to succeed. If she does, she's a shoo-in to follow Terry Semel as Yahoo's next CEO.
Apparently, lots of big advertisers are not happy with Panama. AdSense continues to outpace Yahoo's advertising system, and as for being a shoo-in as Yahoo's next CEO? Not gonna happen.
Posted on Wednesday, June 20 by Registered CommenterCortland Coleman in , , , | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail

Yahoo! Still Sucks

Crappy products, boring services and not enough cash-on-hand to close the big deals when it counts. Yahoo! is becoming the Baltic Avenue of the web. The company had so much promise just a few short years ago, but they were caught napping (still haven't woken up) and now they're paying the price.
Posted on Wednesday, October 11 by Registered CommenterCortland Coleman in , , , , | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail