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In this economic day and age, cash is king. As markets, industries and companies delever in what seems to be a chorus of balance sheet deflation, the value of cash as an investment vehicle has increased exponentially. What does this have to do with Yahoo’s strategy ? First of all, it ...
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Mark Cuban Weighs in on Yahoo (aka, a Jerry Yang Nightmare)
BoomTown — ... Literally, his post yesterday on his Blog Maverick site is titled “What Yahoo Should Do” and he lays waste to a lot of the conventional wisdom about the Internet portal’s fate. ...

Advice to Yahoo: Buy now while companies are cheap?
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — ... "Blog maverick" Mark Cuban has told Yahoo what it should do next, which is buy lots of companies now, while they are cheaper than cheap. He says: ...

Cuban's Yahoo Fix: Buying Spree (YHOO)
Silicon Alley Insider — The new conventional wisdom in tech circles is that the recession offers a golden opportunity for cash-rich big companies to acquire startups and clobbered companies cheap. That's that Chris DeWolfe thinks about MySpace (NWS). It's also what Barry Diller has in store for IAC (IACI). Now Mark Cuban lays out a similar plan for Yahoo (YHOO): buy, buy, buy. First off, Mark argues, Microsoft (MSFT) has no real interest in Yahoo. And shareholders are so shellshocked that they only Yahoo future they can conceive up is one in which it is chopped up ...

Mark Cuban To Yahoo: Acquire Everything
WebProNews Feed — ... Recommends building strength by buying bargains The holidays are, to be honest, a bad time for tech news. With many of their employees either taking time off or shopping from their desks, companies don't do a lot that needs to be covered. But if Mark Cuban has his way, Yahoo will provide plenty of material by going on an acquisition spree. In a blog post simply titled " What Yahoo Should Do ," Cuban states that the chance of Microsoft acquiring either part or all of Yahoo is approximately zero. Given the long list of other things that Microsoft could use its money for, the ...

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