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Yahoo’s 11% Tripwire

According to Doug Anmuth of Barclays, Yahoo will start losing incremental EBITA from its partnership with Microsoft if its search share drops beneath 11% at any point in the next three years.

Based upon its recent performance, I’d say the odds of this happening by the end of 2010 are pretty strong:

Apparently, Barclays also [...]

Down And Out With Yahoo Search

In a discovery that will surprise no one, Yahoo is continuing to lose share in the search marketing arena to Google and Bing:

It’s heading in the wrong direction — toward zero. Yahoo represented 18% of the U.S. search market in October, according to comScore — an all-time low. Meanwhile, Google reached an all-time high at [...]

Yahoo Gets (More) Desperate

According to Silicon Valley Insider, Yahoo wants to tap into the thriving community of independent developers by giving them selective access to Yahoo’s still-mighty user base:

Yahoo (YHOO) wants to build a similar symbiotic relationship with its own set of developers and startups. [...]

Flickr Users Discover That All Their Base Are Belong To Yahoo

Despite the fact that Yahoo acquired Flickr back in 2005, it’s clear that Flickr users have always had deep misgivings about the Sunnyvale behemoth. A recent incident illustrates this tension.

A few days ago, Yahoo decided to modify the Flickr logo by adding “from Yahoo” in small letters. Not exactly the most controversial thing [...]

The Fastest $100 Million You’ll (Never) See

Yahoo is set to spend north of $100 million on a new advertising campaign aimed at re-branding Yahoo in the public mind as the web’s ultimate source of content:

AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher said it would be centered on presenting Yahoo as the “home on the web” for both advertisers and consumers. A source also [...]