Comments on: Reset: What's Next for Yahoo? (Merging With AOL? New Execs?)

By: Yahoo Stock: $13.76 at Closing Bell | Monty's Mega Marketing

Yahoo Stock: $13.76 at Closing Bell | Monty's Mega Marketing — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:03:30 +0000

[...] we didn’t get MSNyhoo, maybe at least we can hope for YahAOL. CrunchBase Information Yahoo! Google Information provided by CrunchBase Share and [...]

By: Will Yahoo and AOL Ever Stop Talking and Make a Deal? (In Related News, Generalissimo Francisco Franco Is Still Dead.) | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:12:00 +0000

[...] As I wrote on September 23rd, for example: That support will be especially important if Yahoo tries to buy AOL, which it is again strongly considering as a way to bolster its ad business, international portfolio and email and content offerings. [...]

By: Articles of the Day « dave liu dot com

Articles of the Day « dave liu dot com — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:58:58 +0000

[...] of the Day Yahoo Board To Meet, Consider AOL Deal — The Yahoo board is set to meet for the first time since Carl Icahn and two new board [...]

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By: Weekend Update, 9/26/08 | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 23:24:22 +0000

[...] of Yahoo’s new board, first on the agenda was a discussion of AOL and its availablity. While BoomTown points out that this is only a confirmation that talks have been going on for a while…, Digital Daily points out that such a merger would be like combining two louts to make a cretin. [...]

By: Yahoo wants AOL, for the low, low price of $5 billion [I Love The 90s] at The Dodgy Yank

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:43:39 +0000

[...] So while merger talks continue, Yahoo now only wants to hand over $5 billion or so in stock, reports BoomTown’s Kara Swisher. One reason why the deal might actually [...]

By: Like BoomTown Said: Yahoo-AOL Talks On Again (But Now It’s Official) | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:44:53 +0000

[...] I posted Monday, Yahoo has been looking again at AOL as an important strategic move now, as a way to bolster its ad [...]

By: Yahoo and AOL: Like Two Louts Merging to Make One Cretin | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Wed, 24 Sep 2008 14:40:39 +0000

[...] Looks like Carl Icahn did show up to his first Yahoo (YHOO) board meeting, though it appears he wasn’t able to get much done. The new board, which includes Icahn and former Viacom CEO Frank Biondi and John Chapple, former CEO of Nextel Partners, reportedly met Tuesday and decided as a first course of business to talk to Time Warner (TWX) about the future of its AOL division. Odd, since Boomtown earlier this week reported that the company has already been been doing just that, and the … [...]

By: Worries for my friends at Yahoo

Worries for my friends at Yahoo — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:11:29 +0000

[...] Reset: What’s Next for Yahoo? (Merging With AOL? New Execs?) | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThings… In addition, such a move–which was once opposed by some Yahoo execs–would now be seen as injecting energy in the company. [...]

By: The Galley Slave :: Reset: What’s Next for Yahoo? (Merging With AOL? New Execs?) :: September :: 2008

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:06:32 +0000

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By: SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 22, 2008

SearchCap: The Day In Search, September 22, 2008 — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:09:49 +0000

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By: Mac Beach

Mac Beach — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 15:53:15 +0000

The only thing Yahoo has that people are WOWed over is Flickr, and while I actually prefer Google’s equivalent photo thing I guess I’m not Yahoo’s target market any more as I am not in state government looking to get my e-mail hacked.

But so far all I’ve heard is talk, talk, talk.

How about they challenge Google for document storage? Challenge Amazon for database stuff? Or how about they do something new that nobody has ever thought of?

Their “maybe, might, gonna” is going to turn into “coulda, shoulda, woulda” if they don’t stop talking and start walking.

I personally think they are in a catch-22 where they don’t have the infrastructure to support another flikr-like property (or several) and they can’t get that infrastructure (without going negative) until they have some hot new products to bring in new users. This is a situation they should have started considering six years ago.

They need to really innovate (not to be confused with a word used by Microsoft with the same spelling) or find some merger partners. I can fully understand them not wanting to be a part of the Microsoft Borg. But there are many other companies out there, particularly now, that could probably benefit from some synergy.

By: Andrew Finkle

Andrew Finkle — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 14:43:35 +0000

Yahoo should not merge, nor sell their search.

Yahoo should;

Note to Jerry Yang;

1) Recognize that you are not the one to lead / reposition YHOO. Stick to your knitting, you’re making a fool out of yourself.

2) Spin off all non-strategic assets IE Alibaba,Y Japan,etc (approximate value of $15 billion of its current market cap).

3) 15%-20% reduction in headcount.

4) Dutch auction/buyback of stock .

5) Stake and spin/off new stand alone initiatives.

6) Go COMPLETELY Open Source, and let others build in an ecosystem.

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