The analysts say the situation is dire, but Tim Armstrong, CEO of AOL, tells the New York Times how he is going to save the company with the help of Procter & Gamble. Former Google boy Armstrong tells the paper that: "If you tried to recreate AOL’s assets, it would be incredibly expensive."...
Yahoo! has continued to do exactly what got it in this mess in the first place. It has played it boring and hired a CEO, in Carol Bartz, who is a safe pair of hands for a publicly quoted company, but has little or no Web 2.0 or advertising experience – apparently these are important to Yahoo!. Please...
Techcrunch is reporting that online advertising revenue growth from the big four players, Google , Yahoo , Microsoft and AOL has nearly ground to a halt, the four combining for only a 0.6% growth in Q3. For fear-mongering comparative reasons only, at the end of Q4 last year, growth was at a robust 12...
Google CEO Eric Schmidt is at it again telling anyone who will listen what a great thing it would be for the industry if Yahoo! stayed independent because "a combination with Microsoft "would be anti-competitive". Like he should know. Of course, what he really means is that if it stays...
I'm sure that Yahoo! chief executive Jerry Yang is a very smart man, but it seems that, like a lot of men, he is of the smart-dumb variety. That's the only way to explain why he would want to sign a deal with his biggest competitor Google, which has in a short few years crushed Yahoo!'s own...
On the same day that Google moves ahead again in the search battle (it had almost 62% of the market), billionaire co-founder Larry Page criticised the potential Microsoft tie-up with Yahoo!, saying it would "concentrate too much power in the online communications market". Clearly Page has a...
That's the story that is starting to go around again, and it could do so for as much as $20bn. This could, in effect, create two scary companies, but isn't that better than one? Here is how the story goes. Robert Scoble on his blog says he is hearing Microsoft will buy Facebook for as much as...
The BBC have a story about the Google reaction to the proposed Microsoft/Yahoo! deal. I can't comment obviously but what do you think?
Yahoo! seems to be fresh out of ideas. We know this because its solution to fighting off Microsoft is to form an alliance with Google. This appears to be the equivalent of the lamb shacking up with the hungry wolf. Good luck with that one. Yahoo!'s response is almost the direct opposite of what it...
Things are bad at Yahoo! and it looks like the end of the road as a standalone company with more pain on the way as Microsoft launches its $44.6bn bid, but it does mean that finally things will get interesting for Google and the rest of us. Yahoo! announced more poor results earlier this week and one...
