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."...
News Corporation's MySpace is believed to be rolling out its own webmail service tomorrow. According to paidContent.org , users will be given their own addresses “@myspace.com”. Apparently “a bunch of ex-Hotmail guys"are running the project out of Seattle. It is unclear whether the social networking...
Here at We Love Mobile, the big question is, why? Why would we want Yahoo! to be our mobile home-screen. Aren't internet portals for lazy people who never make it past their ISP's walled garden? Does anyone persevere or spend any time on web portals like iGoogle. And more importantly, do portals...
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...
Facebook has walked out on talks to buy Twitter saying $500m was too much. Some will say that maybe it is for a service that makes no money - but I'm still convinced it has much potential. It's a little amusing for Facebook – over valued at some ludicrous $15bn – to walk away over issues of price...
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...
It's nearly Friday, in what has been a dark, unsettling week for those working in the digital industry as hundreds of jobs have been lost.Things are going to get bad. This pernickety credit crunch has loomed into an axe wielding guillotine man precariously holding the edge over our pale, brittle...
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...
