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It’s not exactly a huge surprise, given the anti-trust brouhaha that the proposal caused in Washington, but Google formally announced that its search deal with Yahoo is over, kaput, deceased, pushing up the daisies — it is an ex-agreement. It wasn’t just
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8 months ago
1. Yahoo is still making a profit, though obviously shareholders would like more
2. Yahoo is in a bit of a decline compared to Google, but is still growing
3. They have made some good purchases, they just haven't really meshed them together yet
4. Sure they have lost some good staff, but they still have 1000s more
5. Hiring new good staff at current valuation probably isn't going to be too difficult
6. A lot of their revenue is display advertising, which will see a decline, but they are likely to still see profits
It is quite possible that they won't see a similar valuation to the Microsoft offering earlier in the year, but if shareholders had benefitted from that deal, who is to say they wouldn't have lost a similar amount after reinvesting the proceeds of a sale in say Google?
I would have loved to see what a combined MSFT/YHOO would have done to change the landscape online, especially in search, but I still don't see why they are "totally screwed"
8 months ago
At the same time, however, you can't deny that Yahoo's search efforts have been a dismal failure, and that's what the Google deal was supposed to solve. The only option now is Microsoft -- the same deal that Jerry Yang and the board already blew once. That's not a great position to be in, no matter how you slice it.
8 months ago
of cash flow, it has plenty of assets, and so on. And my headline was
obviously a little bit hyperbolic, in an effort to be colorful.
At the same time, however, you can't deny that Yahoo's search efforts have
been a dismal failure, and that's what the Google deal was supposed to
solve. The only option now is Microsoft -- the same deal that Jerry Yang
and the board already blew once. That's not a great position to be in, no
matter how you slice it.
8 months ago