Comments on: The Yahoo-AOL Jabberfest Continues Ad Infinitum (Plus Some Jerry Yang Chitter-Chatter on Video)

By: erdem ela

erdem ela — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 05:58:08 +0000

It was delightful to see Bill and Steve sharing a stage and reminiscing about their stuff, but I was surprised that Bill (gadgets) and Steve (widgets) didn’t settle the debate about the original inventor of the widget. One can never have too many widgets. Somebody codes something you never even dreamed of wanting - suddenly everybody lig tv izle bedava ligtv izle garibim deyimler şiir türleri çet chat sohbet needs a whole bunch of widgets because they don’t impinge too much on the screen/template real estate.

By: Yahoo’s Jerry Yang to Step Down, as a Search for New CEO Commences | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:45:24 +0000

[...] addition, Yahoo’s controversial search ad deal with Google collapsed and its talks to merge with Time Warner (TWX) online unit AOL have dragged [...]

By: Carl Icahn-ic: Shareholder Activist Talks About His Quest to Improve Boardrooms (Are You Listening, Yahoo?) | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:09:26 +0000

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By: Sam Harrison

Sam Harrison — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 04:29:11 +0000

yang never bet on google, that was a ploy to get microsoft to go away

and it worked…all too well

sometimes you have to be careful what you wish for – you just might get it

microsoft no more needs yahoo than a bat needs guano

and even if yang is gone, the basic problem is that yahoo has no ‘killer apps’ — nothing unique

By: Yahoo Stock Drops Close to the Perilous $10 Mark–Uh-Oh | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:28:20 +0000

[...] one, it makes the merger possibilities with the Time Warner (TWX) online unit AOL that much more [...]

By: Mike Kane

Mike Kane — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:19:08 +0000

Updated. Since my post 1/2 hour ago, YHOO’s market cap lost another $500m, so the market cap is at $14.5, so Yang has cost us an even $35 BILLION dollars since May. My only hope is that we don’t have to wait until the next shareholder meeting to dump him, there may not be anything left. It is inexcusable that Yang is still in charge. No one has any confidence in him. His strategic vision, his leadership abilities, his communication to shareholders are all nonexistent and most importantly all of his plans have failed. If he had any cards left, AOL notwithstanding, he should have played them by now, but as you note Kara, this AOL thing is yet another unending blunder during the Yang tenure.

By: Mike Kane

Mike Kane — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:44:02 +0000

Kara,

Nothing of substance will happen under Yang’s tenure. He has no clear vision, no clear direction and everyone has lost any confidence in his abilities to move the company in the right direction. For better or worse, Yang has a few numbers to deal with that hang around his neck like an albatross. Today’s market cap is just under $15 billion. He turned down $49.5 billion and bet big on Google. He lost, we’re down $34.5 billion, all of the rest is just rearranging the deck chairs and no matter how affable Yang appears in public, the fact of the matter remains that he blew it big time and he has no clear path to turning it around. If he had any honor, or really cared about the company, he’d resign.