4 posts and columns on Jeff Lindsay

Analysts to Yahoo CEO: Where Are Those "Boatloads of Money" You Were Talking About?

in News on July 29, 2009 at 2:06 pm PT

Wall Street is finally having its say about the newly announced Microsoft-Yahoo deal, and while opinions are mixed, there is some consensus on who got the better end of the deal: Microsoft. Seems the Street would have much preferred the “boatloads of money” Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz once said she’d demand for a search deal than the “boatloads of value” she claims to have given them this morning. After the jump, a roundup of analysts’ notes issued about the deal.
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Analysts to Yahoo CEO: Where Are Those “Boatloads of Money” You Were Talking About?

in News on July 29, 2009 at 2:06 pm PT

Wall Street is finally having its say about the newly announced Microsoft-Yahoo deal, and while opinions are mixed, there is some consensus on who got the better end of the deal: Microsoft. Seems the Street would have much preferred the “boatloads of money” Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz once said she’d demand for a search deal than the “boatloads of value” she claims to have given them this morning. After the jump, a roundup of analysts’ notes issued about the deal.
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Yahoo Investors: We Would Have Preferred Steve Jobs…

in News on January 13, 2009 at 12:17 pm PT

The markets are having their say about Yahoo’s choice of Autodesk Chairwoman Carol Bartz as CEO and they don’t seem to much care for it. Though Bartz is a widely-respected Silicon Valley veteran and has done much to improve Autodesk’s fortunes, investors aren’t so sure she’ll do the same for Yahoo.

Yahoo: The Parts of Its Sum?

in News on January 15, 2008 at 2:01 am PT

BoomTown is usually never in sync with Wall Street analysts, given that their job is too often to sell people on companies and mine is to, well, tell on companies to people. But I seem to be in violent agreement with Sanford Bernstein analyst Jeff Lindsay of late–at least with a recent report he just [...]