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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]