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...
As Yahoo! boss Jerry Yang hits out at his detractors, there's an interesting piece around today that asks the salient question: what is Yahoo!? While Microsoft tries to resurrect its effort to buy some/all of Yahoo!, Yang was yesterday talking up his ability to save Yahoo! and slating the software...
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...
Check out this article in the NYTimes to see what we Media Week bloggers have to endure to bring you news, views and opinion.... We don't get paid, but I've put on 5 stone since Friday worrying about my content for this week. You really have no idea how stressful this can be, not getting paid...
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?
