Things are tough all over. But with lay-offs, a massive brain drain and a looming hostile take-over bid from the allegedly Evil Empire (Gates' Microsoft, not Reagan's Soviet Union), times are especially tough for loyal Yahoos. Says PassiveAggresiveNotes.com's Yahoo tipster: "First they took away our right to...
Competitors' websites, if analyzed properly, can give you all sorts of information that you can use to increase the traffic and the popularity of your site. This paper explains how to analyze a competitor's website. Start off by identifying the major players. A good place to do this is Yahoos...
Sramana Mitra submits: The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Microsoft MSFT no longer wants to acquire Yahoo! YHOO. Shares of Yahoo had lost 10%, or $2.63, to $23.52 as of 4 p.m Thursday. It will go down much further. Jerry Yang will be fired soon. The executive exodus...
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang on the company's corporate blog gave investors–that's who he's really speaking to–a "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger" missive. Yang had to say something given he's in for an ugly Monday following Microsoft's walkaway over the weekend. However, it's highly doubtful that...
You Tell Us: What Will Become of the Microsoft-Yahoo Merger?RE: You Tell Us: What Will Become of the Microsoft-Yahoo Merger?MS's previous reputation concerning freemaket enterprise will give the feds reason to wip out the magnifying glass on this deal, and Google doesn't even have to yell very loud.Microsoft is poisonI...
Yahoo has been between a rock and a hard place - not making the right management decisions, losing market share, seeing high-level people stream out faster than the latest hit YouTube video, and pressure stepping up from investors. Now it's all coming together in a way that probably spells the...
Culture: The Biggest Single Impediment to the Microsoft-Yahoo DealMicrohoo?Yahoo's culture for some time has been one mired in big company red tape, legal issues and a kind of sclerosis that has put the kibosh the on a lot of the daring and innovation that the company used to be famous...
Yahoo's Bottomless Bureaucratic Maw; or, a Story of Management MeltdownLeadership is to blame...how to fix that???Although I am in a different industry, I suffer from the same lame leadership issues; once an agile company now bogged down in leadership drugery; I think its a case of the company outgrowing its...
Yahoo went from Terry to Jerry, and some say we shouldn't expect any watershed change in performance as a result. Leading up to Yahoo's passionate shareholder meeting a couple weeks ago, a strong contingent of voices were calling for Terry Semel's exit from the chief post. But less than a...
Yahoo filed its internal communications about Carl Icahn's proxy war plans with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The takeaway: Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has been writing a lot of emails. To senior vice presidents at Yahoo, Yang delivered a few talking points following Icahn's first volley and...
Mad in Seattle: Microsoft's Proxy Fight Is All WrongI agreeCompletely.Mad Yahoos in SeattleI tend to agree with your outlook; however, it is almost shortsighted to think that Microsoft doesn't have a much grander plan or vision for their plans with the now turned hostile takeover of Yahoo. Your comments...
