There is now a case to be made for Time Warner to hold onto AOL’s dial-up subscriber business and sell the troubled online unit’s advertising and content businesses. As they...
. . . is AOL-Microsoft. Given the latest, how long before some AOL-Microsoft deal gets announced, and will it just be for search? (Seriously. I’m asking. Let me know...
An unnamed source is buried deep in the big Wall Street Journal piece today, the one detailing some backroom manuevers in the whole Google/News Corp/AOL/Microsoft group-grope-cum-competition for Yahoo. Said source...
This week’s column sought to plumb the tensions inherent when tech outfits run media companies, and also to revisit the chafing that's occuring between traditional media companies and an ad-networked...
It was probably inevitable that, in 2008, what's essentially the next mass-market women’s-service magazine would come courtesy of someone like Yahoo. Full story here....
In this video debate, my BusinessWeek colleague Catherine Holahan and I square off on the Microsoft-Yahoo deal. She's the one bravely arguing against my bearish view. I'm the one whose...
Ah, Microsoft-Yahoo. It's truly touching to me how companies are forever believing that if you mate two dogs, you can make a pony....
Google buys it. Seriously....
This week’s column is about what some execs perceive as a competition among the big players in online advertising and online ad networks—yes,: AOL, Google, Microsoft, Yahoo-- for quality traffic,...
(From a recent informal meeting with a highly-placed digital executive who doesn’t work for any of the below companies.) Me: But why isn’t it OK for Yahoo to be #2...
Multiple reports out there revealing (very) early stage discussions between Yahoo and MySpace over a partnership that would value the latter at $10 billion. That's "$10 billion or more." I'm...
I didn’t understand why Terry Semel stayed on as long as he did. He had more money than he could possibly know what to do with, he was in his...
I've been thinking a lot about the power of aggregation on the Web--how a bunch of stuff from lots of different companies is much more powerful than a standalone site...
The thing about Yahoo is that it's always been much better at traditional, display advertising than Google. Everyone says so. And now that the Project Panama search upgrade is actually...
Oh, the ways we can peel today's news apart. For starters, I was convinced when I wrote this a few months back that none of this could even get this...
Today in the news we have: --A very broad hook-up between Yahoo and over 170 newspapers, encompassing help-wanted classifieds and local news and search. These talks had been brewing for...
Yahoo COO Dan Rosenzweig of Yahoo was interviewed onstage here by top Wired editor Chris Anderson, and gave a better defense of his company than pretty much anything else I’ve...
Regarding Yahoo's current slump: A bunch of questions are rattling around my brainpan, which I list below in hopes of hearing your thoughts on them and Yahoo's situation in general....
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