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13 Feb, 2008 6:23 am
The Yahoo pink slips starting flowing yesterday - a rumored 1000 Yahoos cut. I got a text message from one of my friends at Yahoo with the succinct headline "Laid off." I've been a
Yahoo stockholder for some time, and I'm glad to see the stock price rising back into the $30/share range. And I suppose that laying off 1000 people will only further add momentum to
Yahoo's share prices. But as a
3 Mar, 2008 12:17 pm
As always, I love receiving comments on my posts - I read every single one and now just need to do a better job of responding on a regular basis. Here are some recent comments that I
enjoyed and my responses: On Google Stock Dropping on comScore Data: Alan from the Rimm-Kaufmann Group wrote: "For what it is worth, our agency's PPC same-client spend on Google is
still increasing, and increasing
15 Mar 12:04 pm
By 1916 Henry Ford was a rich man: his company was making $60,000,000 of profit a year (in 1916 dollars!) and he was the dominant shareholder. Rich beyond belief, he made a shocking
announcement to Ford's shareholders - rather than paying out the profit in the form of dividends, he wanted to invest it back in the company to "employ still more men; to spread the
benefits ofthis industrial system
21 Jun, 2007 5:04 pm
Yahoo is at some sort of crossroad. Terry Semel has resigned as Chief Executive Officer, replaced by
Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang. Semel worked at Warner Brothers for years and brought a media company mentality to Yahoo. That sent Yahoo down...
18 Jun, 2007 4:11 pm
As Yahoo announced that Terry S. Semel was stepping down as chief executive of the beleaguered
Internet giant, two questions arise: Is Yahoo in play? What now for the shareholder activists? In a bid to shake up the search giant, which has long been lagging Google, Yahoo said that
Mr. Semel will become nonexecutive chairman. Cofounder [...]
5 Jun, 2007 11:57 pm
... The fabuloous audience quickly followed. But they created a problem for themselves. The speakers at their first "D" were just too good: Gates, Jobs, Diller, Larry and Sergey, Meg
Whitman, Terry Semel, Mark Cuban. I mean, give me a break. Year two: Gates, Jobs, Ellison, Carly
Fiorina, ... McNealy, Zander, Diller, Jerry Yang and Dave Filo. Year 4: Gates, Al Gore, Howard Stringer, Terry Semel, Vinod Khosla, Bob Iger (Jobs couldn't make it and was sorely missed). So what were ...
5 Jun, 2007 11:57 pm
... The fabuloous audience quickly followed. But they created a problem for themselves. The speakers at their first "D" were just too good: Gates, Jobs, Diller, Larry and Sergey, Meg
Whitman, Terry Semel, Mark Cuban. I mean, give me a break. Year two: Gates, Jobs, Ellison, Carly
Fiorina, ... McNealy, Zander, Diller, Jerry Yang and Dave Filo. Year 4: Gates, Al Gore, Howard Stringer, Terry Semel, Vinod Khosla, Bob Iger (Jobs couldn't make it and was sorely missed). So what were ...
5 Jun, 2007 11:57 pm
... The fabuloous audience quickly followed. But they created a problem for themselves. The speakers at their first "D" were just too good: Gates, Jobs, Diller, Larry and Sergey, Meg
Whitman, Terry Semel, Mark Cuban. I mean, give me a break. Year two: Gates, Jobs, Ellison, Carly
Fiorina, ... McNealy, Zander, Diller, Jerry Yang and Dave Filo. Year 4: Gates, Al Gore, Howard Stringer, Terry Semel, Vinod Khosla, Bob Iger (Jobs couldn't make it and was sorely missed). So what were ...
19 Jun, 2007 2:02 pm
... an iPod with a range of portable devices featuring flash video and YouTube support. Read more here (from PC World). In a surprise move, Yahoo's board announces co-founder Jerry Yang
will replace Terry Semel as CEO of the company. Semel will
stay on as non-executive chairman, and former CFO Susan Decker will become president of the company. Read more here (from Wired). A new low-cost computing initiative implemented by the
Venezuelan government aims to ...
2 Jun, 2008 4:28 am
Former Yahoo and Warner Bros. Entertainment chief, Terry Semel, plans to make a run at acquiring
private-equity investor Teddy Forstmann's IMG marketing and talent agency, The New York Post reported. Mr. Semel, who reportedly launched
Windsor Media Capital earlier this year, has been meeting with private-equity firms and the sovereign wealth funds of the United Arab [...]
6 Jun, 2006 1:07 am
... I'd give Flash a decided edge at this time), but it is also betting pretty significantly on the home convergence with it's Media Center software which will gain significant
distribution as a part of the Vista release. Meanwhile, Marissa Mayer and Terry Semel were in now way
willing to cede the video market to Microsoft. Both Google and Yahoo are working hard to bulk up their online video experience with both ...
4 Dec, 2006 6:24 pm
... in the United States. Some believe it's because of the national focus of advertising in Britain, as opposed to local in the United States. Others like Yahoo CEO Terry Semel believe the US is just lagging a year or two behind. Consensus seems to be that the Brits may just be
smarter, buying into the benefits of Internet advertising: "that it is easy to track, enormously effective and a relative bargain." I don't buy the local ...
11 May, 2007 3:43 pm
... to malfunction by interfering with the electromagnetic equipment monitoring the heart, a new study has revealed. Read more here (from Australian IT). Yahoo CEO Terry Semel is expressing doubts about how serious a player the broadcast networks will be in the digital space. He
also sees the convergence of the Web and television as inevitable: "We're continuing to think about how things [Yahoo executes] will look on a flatscreen TV ...
7 Jun, 2007 4:25 am
Yahoo's Terry Semel may be heading for a pay cut. As the Internet giant continues to lag behind
Google, and with its much ballyhooed Panama project - the nickname for the firm's major overhaul of its search advertising system - yet to materialize, investors and industry observers
are casting a critical eye on the chief [...]
8 Jun, 2007 9:58 am
... former Yahoo employees--when he posted a blog entry in January speculating that Yahoo's financial recovery had more to do with market conditions than with CEO Terry Semel's leadership. "It became clear to me that it was kind of an emotional topic," Jackson said. Jackson, who
says he has the support of investors who own about 0.2 percent of Yahoo's voting shares, said he expects significant withhold votes against seven ...
13 Jun, 2007 3:55 pm
... a €300,000 fine if the case is successfully prosecuted in French courts. Read more here (from NewTeeVee). Yahoo's investors came away from the company's annual meeting yesterday
with three key takeaways--a gauge on CEO Terry Semel's accountability, some clarity on Yahoo's stance
on data censorship and human rights, and plans for filling departed CTO Farzad Nazem's leadership role. Read more here (from Media Post). Google and Intel ...
14 Jun, 2007 4:44 pm
... a full 40.3%--were exposed in April to an emerging viable advertising channel, Web widgets, according to a new widget tracking service just launched by comScore. Read more here
(from Media Post). Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, at the company's annual meeting Tuesday, says he is upbeat
about the firm's growth prospects. He adds that advertising remains Yahoo's core business, although the company is open to both acquisitions and partnerships ...
19 Jun, 2007 1:10 am
I know that I just started Shameless Self-Promotion Week yesterday but I need to briefly interrupt SSPW to comment on today's huge news. As I am sure all of you know by now,
Terry Semel has stepped down as Yahoo's Chief Executive Officer and Jerry Yang has taken his place.
What many of you may not know is that Jerry and I have been friends for two decades. Jerry and I were dorm mates at ...
21 Jun, 2007 6:08 am
Just one day after unceremoniously dumping CEO Terry Semel, Yahoo moved forward in its efforts to
maintain momentum in content by approving the deal to buy Rivals that has been under discussion for some time. While the $100 million price tag is not a big number for Yahoo, it is
probably more than Rivals is worth on the open market to anyone else. It is however a must buy for Yahoo as it attempts to: a) lower its demographic in sports which ...
29 Jun, 2007 5:15 am
... the Fortune 100 companies had separated the positions and only six had in place policies that required separation. The study did not, however, determine the number of non-CEO
chairmen deemed independent. Thus, for example, when Terry Semel stepped down as CEO of Yahoo last
week, he agreed to serve as non-executive chairman of the board. Under the NYSE or NASDAQ definitions, he would not be considered independent. Moreover, the trend is clear ...
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