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Carol Had Me Until the Gatorade Print Ad

The highlight of the week for me had to be Kara Swisher’s onstage interview of Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz at the AllThingsD Conference. It’s been no real secret that Carol was pretty fired up (to put it mildly) early on in her Yahoo! tenure about the “leaks” that…

One Last Yahoo! Post for 2008

I promise this will be my last Yahoo! related post (at least for 2008). The news last week that Jerry (as a former Yahoo! GM I feel I can get away with just referring to Jerry Yang as “Jerry”) is stepping down as CEO has every pundit jumping on board with their $.02 on who…

Online Media Valuations: Exhibit Y!

Embedded within The Deal’s piece about how MSFT should sell their OSB (“Online Services Business” aka MSN) is an interesting piece of math interpolation. Citing Cowen and Co. LLC analyst Jim Friedland’s analysis, all of Yahoo! is supposedly valued somewhere between…

Yahoo!: Two Octobers Apart

Reading Kara Swisher’s two-part interview of Jerry, I can’t help but think back to October 2001 when I joined Yahoo!

Back then, the Y! stock was south of $10 per share, the company had already done two RIFs earlier in the year and ended up doing a third in…