bits.blogs.nytimes.com - 11/5/2008
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Sue Decker tells Yahoos that the Google deal was just one of many pieces in Yahoo's turnaround plan.
googleblog.blogspot.com - 11/5/2008
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googleblog.blogspot.com —
In June we announced an advertising agreement with
Yahoo! that gave Yahoo! the option of using Google...
to provide ads on its websites (and its publisher partners' sites) in the U.S. and Canada. At the same time, both companies agreed to delay ...
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Official Google Blog: Ending our agreement with Yahoo!
yhoo.client.shareholder.com - 11/5/2008
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yhoo.client.shareholder.com —
Yahoo! Announces Termination of Services Agreement by Google
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov 05, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Yahoo!...
Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today announced that Google has terminated the advertising services ...
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Yahoo! Inc. - Press Release
gigaom.com - 11/6/2008
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gigaom.com —
In hindsight, we are all geniuses or simpletons
— it’s just a matter of how much time...
we give history to ferment. At this point, it doesn’t look like history will be kind to Jerry Yang, who has had the unenviable job of ...
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Yahoo’s Yang Has No Regrets — He Should [GigaOM]
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Decker: Losing Google's $800 Million "Regrettable" (Memo)
Silicon Alley Insider —
... in operating cash flow it once promised the Google deal would bring.
Also not mentioned: How losing the deal cost Yahoo its best bargaining chip in any merger negotiations with Microsoft.
Instead, it's full of milquetoast morsels like: "Yahoo! stands for innovation, for entrepreneurism [sic] at its finest, for technology excellence and for pioneering the online experience." Google's pullout, Decker writes, is disappointing -- "regrettable."
The whole thing, as obtained by the New York Times:
Yahoos,
Earlier today we ...
Last Bytes: Yahoo, Warner Brothers, Obama
Tech Observer —
Yahoo president Sue Decker tries to put a good face on the quashed Google deal in an internal memo. [NYT] Warner Brothers fights Chinese movie piracy by making cheap downloads available. [ArsTechnica] Spammers start using images of Obama and fake links to his acceptance speech to lure Web surfers. [Cnet] News sites get record traffic on election night. [TechCrunch] Is there enough money available for Obama's science and technology agenda? [Portfolio] by Rafael Cohen Related Links Dark Days for ...
No Yahoogle, Welcome Microhoo
Profy —
... The main problem for Yahoo now is clear - Microsoft knows perfectly well that Yahoo has absolutely no choice and hardly many prospects for the future. Sure, Sue Decker insists that the company’s business is growing healthier these days but is it enough to keep it afloat? And I really doubt that the Redmond giant will be all that willing to offer anything remotely close to the $33 per share it initially offered to acquire Yahoo. Yahoo’s ...
What's a Post-Yang Yahoo Look Like?
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... . Decker's vision of salvation for Yahoo was reseller deals and sharing revenue with Google. Neither of those worked. Decker recently wrote a memo to the Yahoo troops, which The New York Times printed. In fact, by reading Decker's memo, you can gain insight into her "strategic vision," which is not in fact about leadership, but about spewing buzzwords and random statements about "metrics." She is, after all, a former stock analyst. For example: I'm not sure about you, but this is ...
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Now that a pivotal advertising partnership with Google is off the table, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is ready return to the bargaining table with Microsoft if the world's largest software maker remains interested in buying his embattled Internet company. "To ...
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