Yahoo CFO Tim Morse, led the quarterly earnings call this week since CEO Carol Bartz was ill. Bartz could perhaps have handled the call with more aplomb, but Morse did draw from her trademark speech style by using an analogy of Bartz’s to describe Yahoo’s improved way of working around around search: The next revolution [...]
Is Yahoo Really Abandoning Search?
October 24th, 2009Yahoo Search – Dead or Alive?
September 25th, 2009Last year, Google and Yahoo had their advertising deal (which would have left Yahoo with its own search technology) killed by the US Department Of Justice. This year, Yahoo’s planning to turn to MSN and Bing for a bailout – but the terms are quite different – Yahoo plans to actually sell off its tech [...]
Bartz: “Yahoo Wasn’t Ever Intended to be a Search Engine”
August 8th, 2009What? You are kidding, right? In a stunning statement, Yahoo’s head honcho now claims that search was never a priority for Yahoo anyway. To the New York Times in a recent interview, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz stated that Yahoo has “never been a search company.” Now hold on a minute! If Yahoo wasn’t a search [...]
Microhoo Back on the Table… Again???
July 19th, 2009Bing may have tipped the scales for Yahoo – the second largest giant in the internet world is fighting for the number two spot as encroachment by Microsoft’s new engine increases daily. Acco0rding to unnamed sources, Yahoo will supposedly get paid a cool three billion up front, and get 110% of the revenue (after traffic [...]
Microsoft / Yahoo Merger?
May 28th, 2009After a failed series of talks in 2008, the Yahoo and Microsoft may be back in the conference room together, Yahoo Chief Executive Officer Carol Bartz confirmed at an on-stage interview at D: All Things Digital. Bartz said she was talking to Microsoft, but the Yahoo CEO indicated that it was no big deal when [...]