Word: yahoo
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...consecutive three-year decline in advertising spending since the Great Depression." And thanks to such desperate circumstances, news organizations are becoming less adversarial by joining forces to save one another and themselves. Take the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Daily News, or CBS Radio's venture with AOL and Yahoo. As the New York Times suggests, such collusion might be the only way, though, as the authors of this report make clear, there is no magic bullet. But if the solutions aren't obvious, the report's overall message is: Will the future leaders of journalism please, please stand...
...What Microsoft knows now is what Yahoo's share price is showing. Being the No.2 company in the search business behind Google (GOOG) is like finishing second in the Indianapolis 500. There is some money in it, but the pretty girls and endorsements go to the winner...
...numbers are not the reason that Yahoo does not matter. What matters is that it is no longer a company with even a modest voice in the media industry. The time when Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer might have bought it or its search division is probably over. Ballmer is, as most good businessmen should be, ruthless beyond the imagination of the general public. He gave Yahoo's board a chance to do the right thing for its shareholders. Once Yahoo turned Ballmer down, he kept leaking comments about ongoing interest to the press. Just as Yahoo was beginning take...
...Yahoo has lost its place as a meaningful player in the media and in the world of the internet because it has the same e-mail, content, TV guide, shopping, mapping, and personal ad sections as the other portals do. None of these is distinguished. These features are, as a matter of fact, nearly interchangeable with the similar features that its competitors offer...
...Yahoo is not the leader in anything anymore. The fascination that the media has with the company is poorly placed. The company may reorganize itself from ten divisions to five. It may fire another 20% of its staff. Those are simply the ordinary actions of an ordinary company struggling with the recession...