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Yahoo Earnings: What To Expect When You’re Not Expecting (Much)
BoomTown — ... Other than that, of course, when Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang gets on the horn at at 2 pm, Pacific time, the outlook is likely to be a wall-to-wall glumfest. ...

Yahoo Earnings: What To Expect When You’re Not Expecting (Much)
BoomTown — ... Other than that, of course, when Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang gets on the horn at at 2 pm, Pacific time, the outlook is likely to be a wall-to-wall glumfest. ...

Yahoo (YHOO) Q3 Preview: Crappy, Mass Firings
Silicon Alley Insider — Yahoo (YHOO) reports Q3 this afternoon after the close. We'll be covering the results and conference call live HERE, beginning at 4PM ET, 1PM PT. Press release probably out around 4:15/1:15. Call starts at 5PM/2PM. Details and webcast here. Preview We expect Yahoo's results to be crappy. Not godawful, but crappy. Anecdotally, display advertising has been weakening through the quarter, and we can't imagine Yahoo's Q3 or Q4 outlook will be encouraging. The big news on the call, of course, will be layoffs: ...

LIVE ANALYSIS: Yahoo (YHOO) Q3 Earnings
Silicon Alley Insider — ... Yahoo (YHOO) reports Q3 this afternoon after the close. We'll be covering the results and conference call live here, beginning at 4PM ET / 1PM PT. Press release probably out around 4:15/1:15. Call starts at 5PM/2PM. Details and webcast here. ...

Yahoo earnings as bad as everyone thought, or worse [Meltdowns]
Gawker: valleywag — ... Yahoo's earnings announcement was ghastly in two ways. The bad news: Its revenues were flat and earnings down 64 percent. The worse news: It is only cutting 10 percent of its workforce, or 1,500 employees, which will reduce expenses by $400 million. The cuts are not nearly deep enough. Yahoo is forgoing immediate pain for a prolonged period of uncertainty, as investors continue to abandon the stock and employees expect further layoffs down the road. ...

A Bad Quarter Ends Today (But Will It Be a Happier New Year for Tech?)
BoomTown — ... While financial results will not out for some weeks–Yahoo will report on Jan. 27, for example–one does not have to be a psychic to know what’s coming: A lot of weakness, with hopes for better days ahead. ...

Yahoo stock: Still not worth it
Webware.com — ... coup over its treatment of Microsoft's acquisition bid, which contributed to its 59 percent stock price decline from its 2008 high of $30 per share to its current $12.31 per share (a $17 billion market cap). But if you look at the Yahoo balance sheet, its stock is still overvalued, and, needless to say, Bartz has some difficult work in front of her to turn Yahoo around. Here's why. (Note that all the findings below are derived from Yahoo's 2007 Annual Report and 2008 third-quarter data. The company plans to release 2008 fourth-quarter data on January 27.) ...

Earnings: One-Time Charges, Ad Downturn Help Kick Off Yahoo's Bartz Era With a Loss
paidContent — ... were disappointed and others are likely to be as well. Yes, as David Kaplan pointed out in his earnings preview, these results came in during Jerry Yang's last swan song quarter as CEO. But this suggests that Bartz has a tougher job ahead of her than even the naysayers might have expected. Her kick-ass tone during her brief intro call struck the right note but people will be listening for substance in today's call. More to come. Earnings release | Webcast (5 p.m. ET) Our streamlined mobile application for ...

Yahoo Earnings: Display Slips 2 Percent; CEO Bartz: 'We Will Benefit From Consolidating Ad Budgets'
paidContent — ... traditional advertising, marketers are giving us less visability as to their spending plans." —The affiliate business was also down 2 percent. —Bartz on search: There's a been a lot of talk about Yahoo's weakness in search, where it has about 20 percent of the market. Bartz: "We've stabilized query results. And people often forget it remains three times the size of the number three player." More from the Q&A; after the jump Release (PDF) | Webcast (5:00 PM EDT) —Reconciling earlier search share gains: ...

Bartz of 100 Days: Tough Talk to Microsoft Talks
BoomTown — ... Here’s an interesting irony–Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz will have her 99th day in office on the very one that the Internet giant will announce its first-quarter earnings: April 21, 2009 at 2 pm PST. ...

Yahoo Earnings Call at 2 pm PST, CEO Bartz’s First Sassy Quip 2:01 pm: BoomTown Will Be Liveblogging!
BoomTown — ... You can tune in here on Yahoo’s investor relations site if you want to listen to the call, as well as get the press release, but BoomTown will be liveblogging so you don’t have to! ...

Hear Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz Drop the F-Bomb
Valleywag — ... The pottymouthed Bartz held it together for her first conference call with Wall Street analysts. Almost. Right at the end of yesterday's earnings call, she got asked some tiresome question about Yahoo's latest layoffs. You can hear the frustration and annoyance in her voice. "We had a lot of people telling engineers what to do but nobody fucking doing anything. [pause] Excuse me. I knew that would slip out one of these times." ...

Hear Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz Drop the F-Bomb
Gawker: valleywag — ... The pottymouthed Bartz held it together for her first conference call with Wall Street analysts. Almost. Right at the end of yesterday's earnings call, she got asked some tiresome question about Yahoo's latest layoffs. You can hear the frustration and annoyance in her voice. "We had a lot of people telling engineers what to do but nobody fucking doing anything. [pause] Excuse me. I knew that would slip out one of these times." ...

Hear Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz Drop the F-Bomb
Gawker Comments — ... that we love. Listen. The pottymouthed Bartz held it together for her first conference call with Wall Street analysts. Almost. Right at the end of yesterday's earnings call , she got asked some tiresome question about Yahoo's latest layoffs. You can hear the frustration and annoyance in her voice. "We had a lot of people telling engineers what to do but nobody fucking doing anything. [pause] Excuse me. I knew that would slip out one of these times." What makes the slipup extra hilarious: We hear Yahoo's beleaguered public-relations staff had promised reporters that Bartz ...

Hang On, It’s Going to Be a Bumpy Night: Yahoo Earnings Tomorrow, Microsoft Earnings Thursday
BoomTown — ... and Microsoft are still seriously talking about a search and partnership deal, never-ending discussions that might or might not come to fruition. But most investors will be focused on real results this week, as both tech giants report quarterly earnings. But, after ho-hum performance last week from Google (GOOG), Wall Street is not expecting much from either, as the econalypse continues to take its toll on financial performance. Yahoo (YHOO) will report its second-quarter earnings at 2 pm PST tomorrow, while Microsoft (MSFT) will report ...

Splashtop to take risky move by utilizing the world’s “undervalued” search engine, Yahoo.com
Josh Chandler — ... In light of the recent news from Yahoo’s Q2 Earnings Conference Call that “Search query volume rose 9% but revenue per search fell”, it will be interesting to see how Splashtop really aims to capitalize on a revenue model from Yahoo.  As mentioned by ...

Yahoo! & Microsoft in Ad Pact; Microsoft Rises, Yahoo! Sinks
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily — ... gives Microsoft’s Bing search engine greater scale to compete effectively. “Through this agreement with Yahoo!, we will create more innovation in search, better value for advertisers, and real consumer choice in a market currently dominated by a single company.” Is it just me or does this seem to offer lots of benefit to Microsoft upfront and absolutely none to Yahoo! for at least two years? There’s a conference call coming up at 8:30 am Eastern, which you can listen to here. ...

Microsoft, Yahoo! Change Search Landscape
Forbes.com: Technology News — ... of the agreement. Conference Call -- 5:30 a.m. PDT, Wednesday, July 29 Yahoo! and Microsoft will host a conference call with Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to discuss the agreement at 5:30 a.m. Pacific/8:30 a.m. Eastern Time today. To listen to the call, please dial 1-866-515-2908 in the U.S. and Canada; +1-617-399-5122 international, reservation number: 47968026. A live webcast of the call can be accessed through Yahoo!'s Investor Relations Web site at http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com/results.cfm . In addition, an archive of the webcast will be ...

Stock Stronger as Yahoo Preps to Report Next Week–But Employee Departures (and Return of Yodeling!) Rattle
BoomTown — In one week, Yahoo will report its third-quarter earnings, after the market closes. And, so far, its stock is showing signs that investors are hoping for better days ahead for the Internet giant. Shares are up 8.5 percent for the month, almost 13 percent for the last three months and almost 39 percent since the beginning of the year. While that’s not the rocket ship Google (GOOG) has been on–the search giant’s stock is up 70 percent since January, which includes a big boost recently on expectations of a strong ...

Yahoo Earnings After Market Close, Plus Live Blog of Conference Call at 2 pm
BoomTown — It’s not likely the announcement of Yahoo’s third-quarter earnings later today will be quite as exciting as its Open Hack Day in Taiwan this past weekend, but BoomTown will try to make those numbers and the conference call after with CEO Carol Bartz as entertaining as possible. Still, while recent results from both Google and, especially, Apple, have been pretty impressive, no one is expecting Yahoo to blow the roof off. So, here’s what to look for: Wall Street is estimating that Yahoo (YHOO) will ...