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Yahoo Posts Grim Numbers, But Don’t Jump Ship Just Yet

April 21, 2009

Yahoo today reported revenues of $1,580 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2009, a decrease of 13% from the first quarter of 2008. Excluding the impact of currency rate fluctuations, revenues for the [...]

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Microsoft Yahoo Talks Getting Hotter

April 21, 2009

According to BoomTown, Microsoft and Yahoo are now “hot and heavy” in talks about a search and advertising partnership. Yahoo is said to be playing it a bit cooler than Microsoft who is aggressively pursuing opportunities to not take further losses in the search market. Depending on how Yahoo’s numbers look tomorrow, it is unsure [...]

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Just How Good Does The MSFT Deal Look To Yahoo’s Numbers?

April 14, 2009

Jefferies analyst Youssef Squali ran some of the numbers on Yahoo’s (YHOO) potential search/display ad deal with Microsoft (MSFT) in a report today. His notes from SAI. Keep in mind this is based on a partnership, not an all-out asset swap.

Outsourcing search infrastructure to Microsoft could save Yahoo $1 billion to $1.3 billion per year.
A [...]

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First Microsoft Yahoo Talks Of 2009 Begin

April 10, 2009

According to ATD, this past week Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer are finally talking about search and also advertising partnerships. Sources close to the situation are saying that the deal is likely to happen before the end of the year, however there are no discussions about a renewed acquisition attempt by [...]

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Yahoo Flies Out Of The Bargain Travel Space

March 25, 2009

Yahoo announced today that it will be exiting the bargain travel space by closing FareChase, a company it originally acquired back in July 2004 and re-launched two years later. At the end of the day, users will start being redirected to Yahoo’s main travel page.
The service was similar to other comparisson travel sites, letting customers [...]

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