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Yahoo Earnings Preview: Display Revs Yay!?! (Search Not-So-Yay)

in News on April 18, 2011 at 10:00 am PT

Will Yahoo’s revenue growth drought finally end this quarter? We’ll see tomorrow when Yahoo reports its first-quarter earnings, after the markets close. As usual, investors will be looking for some sign that the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s lackluster revenue results have improved in CEO Carol Bartz’s over-promised but still under-delivered turnaround effort.

Memo to Mark Zuckerberg: The Chicken or the Egg (or the Golden Ticket)

in News on May 20, 2008 at 4:03 am PT

Maybe it would be easier to sell Facebook to Microsoft for billions and billions, even though it is not likely you will. But, for the sake of argument, let’s take the opposing position about the best future for the hot social-networking site. In other words, make a friendly Microsoft takeover of Facebook your own version of an IPO, as John Furrier has suggested, and walk away a Silicon Valley legend.
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