Posts Tagged ‘ yahoo ’

Add one more: Ask.com, the search engine you never remember to use, tries yet another strategy.
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The market is very unimpressed with Yahoo’s worse-than-expected results. The company’s stock is down nearly 8 percent, and in a series of reports, analysts say they are “worried,” “frustrated,” and “concerned” about the company’s tepid revenue growth and don’t see a comeback immediately ahead. A sampling of the commentary follows.

Google's venture capital arm isn't charged with investing in Google-like companies. But it doesn't hurt a start-up's chances, either.See Trada, a two-year-old company dedicated to helping small businesses buy advertising...on Google.
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz acknowledged during the company’s conference call that neither the company’s search ad business or its display ad business had performed as well as Yahoo had wanted. Bartz said however that the company didn’t get the sense that there was a slowdown in the...
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Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) posted a 19 percent jump in display ad sales for the quarter, but that once again wasn’t enough to offset declining search ad sales, as the company reported its seventh consecutive quarter of declining net revenue. Yahoo did however post a big jump in net income,...
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From time to time, we provide an overview of one broad MediaShift topic, annotated with online resources and plenty of tips. The idea is to help you understand the topic, learn the jargon, and take action. We've previously covered Twitte...
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As it has for the last four quarters, Gannett’s profits rose thanks mostly to revenues from its local TV stations and continued cost cutting at its newspapers. Meanwhile, slight improvement at CareerBuilder, which had been a drag on digital revenues for over a year, pushed Gannett’s interactive segment up 8.3 percent. Company-wide digital revenues,...
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