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- Ad Dollars Still Drawn to Google in "Flight to Quality"
- Seth Gilbert submits: In July, results failed to meet high expectations. Now it's October, expectations were low and the results exceeded them. Such is the sometimes awkward reality of predicting the performance of a company that refuses to give much in the way of forward guidance. Thursday, Google GOOG...
- External links 2008-10-20
- Netflix's Q3: Keeping the Impact of Slowing Growth to a Minimum
- Seth Gilbert submits: Two weeks ago, Netflix NFLX provided a window into upcoming earnings with a pre-announcement to reset expectations for the reality of the current economy. Monday, the official results debuted. New subscriber additions, as the company warned, were weak but net income was up thirty percent. Reported...
- External links 2008-10-22
- From Search to Sales: Google Settles Book Archive Suit
- Seth Gilbert submits: Throughout 2007, Microsoft MSFT and Google GOOG seemed locked in a race to digitize and index the books of the world. For months the companies seesawed back and forth with news of agreements granting exclusive access to world renowned library collections. Google tied up the...
- External links 2008-10-29
- Google Faces Opposition from Harvard in Book Search Deal
- Seth Gilbert submits: Last week, Google GOOG announced they’d reached an agreement with publishers and authors to settle a three year old copyright battle over their book scanning practices. Both sides expressed great satisfaction with the result. In public statements, the deal, which still must be approved by the...
- External links 2008-11-05
- What Will Life Without Google Be Like for Yahoo?
- Seth Gilbert submits: In June, in the wake of Microsoft’s MSFT bid for the company, Yahoo’s YHOO management team stepped into the lion’s den and made an alternate deal with Google GOOG. The agreement, which focused on the lucrative search advertising market that Google dominates but both Microsoft...
- External links 2008-11-06
- Yang Steps Down as Yahoo's Valuation Ebb and Flow Continues
- Seth Gilbert submits: Jerry Yang took the helm of Yahoo YHOO a year and half ago with a plan to restore the then struggling company he co-founded to its former glory. Amidst mounting pressure from major shareholders, he’ll step down with the task far from complete. Yahoo announced...
- External links 2008-11-18
- Ballmer on Yahoo: 'We've Moved On'
- Seth Gilbert submits: Wednesday, hundreds of Microsoft MSFT shareholders converged on Bellevue’s Meydenbauer Center to hear the state of their union. Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates talked Azure while shareholder votes for board seats were tallied. Yahoo YHOO wasn’t a subject on the annual meeting’s agenda, but the prospect...
- External links 2008-11-20
- Why Is Icahn Loading Up on Yahoo?
- Seth Gilbert submits: Black Friday is usually a day of bargain shopping. The gift giving comes later. This year, for Yahoo YHOO shareholders, a small present came a little early. Friday, in a SEC-required “insider” filing, Yahoo director and major shareholder Carl Icahn disclosed he’d acquired an additional 6,778,804 shares...
- External links 2008-12-01
- Is Jon Miller Really Trying to Raise $30 Billion to Buy Yahoo?
- Seth Gilbert submits: Next to Jerry Yang, Steve Ballmer and Carl Icahn, few names have been mentioned more frequently in Yahoo’s YHOO ongoing survival story than Jon Miller. The partner at Velocity Interactive, and former AOL chief (2002 to 2006) was mentioned as an adviser in...
- External links 2008-12-03
- Reading Up: Google's Library Growth, Nintendo's Digital Books Experiment
- Seth Gilbert submits: Google’s GOOG library is growing. In addition to serving as the card catalog for the ever-changing mass of digital content on the net, the search giant has archived rare books and snagged Life Magazine’s photo catalog. They’re also now playing host to a collection of...
- External links 2008-12-11
- Warner Music Group and YouTube Are Not Hearing the Same Tune
- Seth Gilbert submits: If you missed the headlines, Warner Music Group WMG, the first of the Big 4 record labels to partner with YouTube has pulled off the site. Accounts and press releases differ over culpability – whether YouTube bailed or Warner Music punted – but the material fact...
- External links 2008-12-30
- Rumor Says Yahoo's In Play Again; Reality Says Not Likely
- Seth Gilbert submits: Mark Twain famously quipped,”The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." Executives at Yahoo YHOO may be ready to say the same thing about their company. No matter how much time passes, takeover rumors just won’t seem to go away; even ideas conceived way outside the box...
- External links 2009-01-08
- Bartz Could Be Just What Yahoo Needs
- Seth Gilbert submits: The presidential inauguration is scheduled for January 20th. Yahoo YHOO anointed its own new leader a week earlier. Confirming earlier reports, the company announced Tuesday that Carol Bartz, the former CEO of Autodesk ADSK, accepted an offer for the position. Bartz emerged in...
- External links 2009-01-14
- The Cost of Leadership: Yahoo Pays Up
- Seth Gilbert submits: Yahoo’s YHOO hiring of Carol Bartz on the 13th officially filled the company’s leadership vacancy. A SEC filing Thursday filled in the gaps on some of the details in the deal she struck. The 8K filing includes the offer and complete terms. What’s it...
- External links 2009-01-16
- Parsing Yahoo's Q4: It's Not All Bad
- Seth Gilbert submits: Yahoo YHOO rolled into the Carol Bartz era about two weeks ago. Tuesday, the company closed the books on Jerry Yang’s brief executive stint with the release of Q4 earnings. Buried under nearly $603m in one time charges, Yahoo came in with a loss of $303.4m....
- External links 2009-01-28
- Amazon Gets Its Game on, Launching Download Portal
- Seth Gilbert submits: Amazon AMZN was a pioneer in e-commerce. Moving well beyond the books it started with, the company built a strong business around the efficient sale and delivery of most any kind of packaged goods. For its second act, the company now seems intent on achieving nothing...
- External links 2009-02-05
- Live Nation, Ticketmaster Merger Gets Board Approval
- Seth Gilbert submits: For a long time, Live Nation LYV and Ticketmaster TKTM were joined at the hip. The nation’s largest concert promoter and the nation’s largest ticket vendor formed an inseparable pair. Then Live Nation, pursuing better margins and greater ambitions of vertical integration, decided to go...
- External links 2009-02-10
- Amazon Tests the Used Video Game Waters
- Seth Gilbert submits: GameStop GME proved buying and selling used video games is a lucrative market. When earnings are reported later this month, the company is expected to announce more than $2b in fiscal year revenue from second hand goods, and all at higher margin than primary sales (click chart...
- External links 2009-03-09
- Google, YouTube and the Music Video Saga
- Seth Gilbert submits: Music videos are among the most popular clips on YouTube, but the battle to keep them there is getting more and more contentious. Back in December, faced with failing licensing negotiations, Warner Music WMG, pulled its programming off of the site. Monday, it was Google...
- External links 2009-03-11
- Discovery Hits Amazon with Infringement Suit Over Kindle
- Seth Gilbert submits: The teeth associated with Discovery Communications DISCK (“Discovery”) are usually those flashed on Animal Planet, during the company’s “Shark Week” TV programming on the Discovery Channel, or when host Bear Grylls eats something disgusting, but it turns out the company’s legal department has plenty of...
- External links 2009-03-18
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