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Yahoo! Reports First Quarter 2009 Results - Yahoo! Finance
Marketing services revenues from Owned and Operated sites were $872 million for the first quarter of 2009, a 10 percent decrease compared to $966 million for the same period of 2008. The decrease was driven by a 3 percent decline in search advertising revenue and a 13 percent decline in display ...
GeoCities will close later this year. - Yahoo! GeoCities Help
help.yahoo.com — Why is GeoCities not accepting new customers? We have decided to discontinue the process of allowing new... customers to sign up for GeoCities accounts as we focus on helping our customers explore and build new relationships online in other ways. We will ... (more) GeoCities will close later this year. -  ...
Update on Yahoo-Microsoft Talks: “Hot and Heavy”
Update on Yahoo-Microsoft Talks: “Hot and Heavy”
kara.allthingsd.com — Microsoft and Yahoo have been busily ferreting away on their talks about the possible search and advertising... partnership possibilities, in what one person close to the situation described as “hot and heavy.” But exactly how hot and ... (more) Update on Yahoo-Microsoft Talks: “Hot and Heavy”
The New York Times Company Reports 2009 First-Quarter Results - Yahoo! Finance
finance.yahoo.com — In this release, the Company has included non-GAAP financial information with respect to operating profit/(loss) before depreciation,... amortization, severance and special items and operating costs before depreciation, amortization, severance and raw ... (more) The New York Times Company Reports 2009 First-Quarter ...
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Yahoo Q1 Earnings Report, Not Looking Better
Search Engine Journal — ... After Google reported on its financial conditions recently, it’s now Yahoo’s turn to report how bad the company is doing in terms of its finances.  And although the following words by Yahoo’s CFO may still sound positive, the fact still remains that Yahoo’s finances are not doing well. ...

Carol Bartz Still Looking For Wow As Yahoo’s First Quarter Revenues Decline 13 Percent
TechCrunch — ... After spending a lot of time speaking with Yahoo employees, partners, and customers, new CEO Carol Bartz has come to realize the importance of giving consumers a “Wow experience,” she told investors in the first quarter conference call. But they have yet to experience that from owning the stock. Yahoo reported a 13 percent decline in revenues for the first quarter of 2009 to $1.6 billion, while net income dropped 78 percent to $118 million. ...

Yahoo's profits plunge 78%; it plans to shed more staff
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — ... Yahoo has just reported a first quarter net profit of $118m, which is down by 78% on last year, on net sales of $1.58bn, which is down by 13%. Yahoo also said it would cut another 5% of its staff, which probably amounts to about 650-700 jobs. The earnings presentation is at ...

Rough cycle for Yahoo — profit, workforce shrink
GMSV — ... accompanied Yahoo’s release Tuesday of quarterly numbers that met the market’s low expectations. The grim financials included a 78 percent drop in profit versus the same stretch last year, revenue that was off 13 percent, and a slowdown in page-view growth. The layoffs, the fourth whack since January 2008, will carve 5 percent, or almost 700 people, off the payroll. Notices will go out in a couple of weeks, and based on where new CEO Carol Bartz said she’d ...

Linkpost | 4.22.2009
TechBlog — ... got the goods on BlackBerry OS 5.0 - Will include streaming video incline in the BlackBerry browser. • Rejected. - Apple rejects InstaPaper 1.4's iPhone app because one icon may or may not look like an iPhone. Maddening. • Hoping To Improve People Search, Google Launches "Profile Results" - Google to include its Profiles feature when you do a search for a person. • 64 Things Every Geek Should Know - Awesome list! • Yahoo Cutting 5% Of Staff and Yahoo! Reports First Quarter 2009 Results Also Update on Yahoo-Microsoft Talks: "Hot and Heavy" • ...

Yahoo (YHOO) Reports 1st Quarter 2009 Earnings
Search Engine Roundtable — Yahoo announced their first quarter earnings for 2009 and it was pretty bad. Here are the highlights: Yahoo! Inc. today reported revenues of $1,580 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2009, a decrease of 13 percent from the first quarter of 2008. Excluding the impact of currency rate fluctuations, revenues for the first quarter of 2009 would have declined 8 percent from the first quarter of 2008. The Company’s non-GAAP operating cash flow for the first quarter of 2009 of $409 million exceeded the midpoint of the outlook range provided by the Company last quarter. Plus, ...

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kara.allthingsd.com 4/15/2009 — Yes, more layoffs are indeed coming to Yahoo, sources confirmed to BoomTown, but perhaps even more than have been reported. But that’s not all, as even more top-level managers are either leaving or being moved around the ever-changing ...
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Yahoo's profit plunged 78 percent in the first quarter, as the Internet icon struggled to right itself amid a critically ill economy.
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Company execs blamed quarterly declines on currency fluctuations, the sale of Kelkoo and lower fees from broadband partnerships, VoIP, and music subscriptions.
Yahoo Q1: Flaccid Quarter, Laying Off 5% (YHOO)Yahoo! Finance: Tech Ticker 4/21/2009
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