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...hagglers who passionately bid for everything from stereos and cruises to a Coke bottling plant and the historic town of Johnsonville, Conn. Bezos' is just the latest firm to recognize the Web as the perfect medium to match buyers and sellers in a capitalist free-for-all: Net portal Yahoo rolled out an auction site last fall, and America Online just struck a partnership with industry leader eBay...
...overpaying at these electronic garage sales is the consequence of being too enthusiastic--just as it is with the old-fashioned kind. Caught up in the competitive frenzy of an auction, many people don't know when to fold their cards. Says Tim Brady, vice president of production at Yahoo: "Anybody who's the least bit competitive hates to be outbid." And that's why sellers, and investors, love it so much...
...their stock price sacrificed to the earnings gods. What this country really needed, said the pundits and business professors, was a group of CEOs who had the guts to go long. Now, at (long) last, a new generation of managers, like Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Tim Koogle of Yahoo, Steve Case of America Online and Tom Jermoluk from @Home, has emerged to do exactly that, through aggressive acquisition strategies, massive infrastructure spending and expansion at a clip that would make old-line companies get motion sickness. These young chieftains have shown a true disdain for the next quarter...
Wrong! By eschewing near-term profit, these outfits are building brands that could be worth many times their current prices. Yahoo, which this week announced its purchase of money-losing Broadcast.com right on top of acquiring money-losing Geocities, is managing for a world that doesn't even exist and may not for years, a world of thousands of intertwined communities in constant contact over the Internet...
...Yahoo! deal,? says Baumohl, ?is yet another indication that the company intends to use the enormous financial leverage of its highly valued stock to keep expanding. Yahoo! is now in a position to buy what it wants, and it couldn?t let this deal pass by.? The big Internet players, including the likes of America Online and Lycos, are in a race to strategically position themselves at the crossroads of computer, TV and telelephone information services. And so as long as investors are willing to pay for their high-priced stocks, the companies are willing to pay for high-priced...