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...other goals to go for. That's why I am calling it a day." - On why he's decided to retire, Yahoo...
...There will be a Tyson Foods after Dick Bond, a Yahoo! after Jerry Yang. But nobody knows what America's oldest fashion magazine would look like under a new eye. Even more tantalizing, what would become of Anna after Vogue...
...Race didn’t figure into the calculus very significantly. There was of course the occasional yahoo who chased me off his lawn accusing me of being a traitor to my race. (And I was once asked by an older couple who nevertheless assured me they were voting Democrat whether I was the “right color for that job” when I announced myself as an Obama campaign worker.) But for most people, questions about religion or race were largely overshadowed by economic considerations...
...Session is the AEA conference's first attempt to inject a little levity into an annual confab that noneconomists might charitably describe as dry. "You can count on one hand all the funny economists in the world," says R. Preston McAfee, a California Institute of Technology economics professor and Yahoo! research fellow who presided over the evening. But despite their rarity, some of these academics have attracted wide followings--admittedly, among those who can laugh at supply-demand curves. Yoram Bauman, a professor at the University of Washington, bills himself as the World's First and Only Stand-Up Economist...
...Yahoo! has some assets it could sell to raise money. Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company, and Yahoo! Japan could be worth in excess of $5 billion. Yahoo! may decide that it can buy businesses that do more to help its position as a portal and search company. In a poor economy, even good assets will be cheap. Picking up strategic pieces will be easier with a vault full of cash...