2 posts and columns on headwinds

Liveblogging Yahoo Q4 Earnings: "Encouraging" Is the New Black

in News on January 25, 2011 at 2:10 pm PT

BoomTown was looking over Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong, as I blogged the conference call after Yahoo released its fourth-quarter earnings after markets closed today. It’s pretty! But Yahoo’s revenue growth–still, not so much. Yahoo exec, though, declared the results “encouraging.”

I Bet $31-Per-Share Sounds Pretty Good Right About Now, Eh?

in News on October 10, 2008 at 7:27 am PT

Now that Yahoo is trading at $12.63 in an economy that’s falling Homer Simpson-style down the long rocky slope of economic collapse, some of the company’s institutional investors are hoping to convince it to sell itself to Microsoft again.