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YAHOO! SEEKING OPEN ALLIANCE WITH GOOGLE

May 16, 2008

NY Post: All / By PETER LAURIA and HOLLY SANDERS

Yahoo! executives are scrambling to finalize a search-advertising pact with Google in the face of a fresh challenge to its independence from billionaire investor Carl Icahn, The Post has learned. Acc ...

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Icahn's 30% Of Yahoo

May 16, 2008

Dealbreaker

The epic proxy fight for Yahoo may soon be wrapping up. This morning the New York Post reports that Yahoo executives are scrambling to do a deal, although perhaps not the one that Carl Icahn and his f ...

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Competitors Use Long Tail Keywords To Hurt Yahoo Search Advertisers

May 16, 2008

Search Engine Roundtable / Tamar Weinberg

An interesting phenomenon is occurring within Yahoo Search Marketing that has been expressed pretty intensely by affected advertisers at WebmasterWorld. According to the impacted advertisers, the qua ...

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What’s Purple and White and Backed Into a Corner? [Digital ...

May 16, 2008

All Things Digital / John Paczkowski

Can a search advertising alliance between Yahoo and Google possibly pass regulatory muster? We may soon find out. Now that investor-tormentor Carl Icahn has filed a proxy slate to unseat Yahoo’s boa ...

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WPP sets up Yahoo alliance

May 16, 2008

FT.com - Companies UK

The agreement will see the advertising group move from 'manually booking ads' with Yahoo to more mechanised systems that would allowing better targeting of advertisements ...

Yahoo Seeks to Conceal Parts of Shareholder Suit, Says Lawyer ...

May 16, 2008

Law Roundtable / Law.com Newswire

Why Yahoo Doesn't Monetize As Well As Google

May 16, 2008

Clickety Clack: Online Advertising Economics / effective cpms

This will be a post that I refer to often because it lays out the data on why Yahoo's monetization trails Google. I've written about this a lot but I've never backed it up with data the way Seobook ha ...

Lawyer says Yahoo trying to conceal evidence

May 16, 2008

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Business News

Yahoo Inc. is trying to "whitewash embarrassing documents" from an investor lawsuit that accuses it of improperly rejecting a takeover bid by Microsoft Corp., an attorney representing two Detroit pens ...

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Google overtakes Yahoo as most-visited U.S. Web site

May 16, 2008

Latest from Computerworld

For first time, Google slips by Yahoo as the most-visited Web site in the U.S. ...

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Roy Bostock defends Yahoo against Carl Icahn

May 16, 2008

guardian.co.uk Technology / Jemima Kiss

Yahoo's chairman, Roy Bostock, has staunchly defended the company against a potential boardroom coup being led by corporate raider Carl Icahn, accusing him of "significantly misunderstanding the facts ...

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Sir Martin Sorrell's WPP signs Yahoo ad deal

May 16, 2008

guardian.co.uk Media / Mark Sweney

Marketing services group WPP has struck a deal with Yahoo to enable its agencies to improve their digital display advertising buying operation. By Mark Sweney ...

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Y! Developer Network Blog: SearchMonkey developer breakfast in the London ...

May 16, 2008

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Wagging the dog

May 16, 2008

DealZone / Chris Kaufman

Yahoo has struck an advertising partnership deal with WPP Group that will let WPP units GroupM and 24/7 Real Media buy ads on Yahoo's online ad exchange. It may be a stretch to expect this shake off t ...

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YAHOO!, WPP PLAN WEB AD ALLIANCE

May 16, 2008

NY Post: All / By HOLLY M. SANDERS

Yahoo! and WPP Group will announce a partnership that the companies said would make it easier and more effective for WPP and its agencies to buy and target advertising across the Web. Under the agree ...

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Panicked Yahoo (YHOO) Rushing To Sign Google (GOOG) Search Deal ...

May 16, 2008

Silicon Alley Insider / Henry Blodget

What got Yahoo (YHOO) into the Microsoft (MSFT) mess, of course, was the Terry Semel legacy of management-from-barcalounger: Unless someone places a bazooka at your head, you make decisions with the u ...

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Yahoo rebuffs plan to oust board

May 16, 2008

BBC News | Business | Companies | UK Edition

The net portal fires back at a billionaire investor who wants to oust the present board of directors at Yahoo. ...

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Yahoo Opens SearchMonkey Doors to Everyone

May 16, 2008

Search Engine Roundtable / Tamar Weinberg

Are you a developer? You may be interested in SearchMonkey, Yahoo's new open developer platform, which was released to all developers yesterday. The concept behind SearchMonkey is to empower devel ...

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Will Microsoft Respond to Yahoo Letter to Icahn?

May 16, 2008

BoomTown / Kara Swisher

Throughout this new series of developments in the Yahoo takeover circus, Microsoft has been unusually quiet about billionaire investor Carl Icahn's efforts to take over Yahoo's board via a proxy fight ...

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Memo to Jerry: Mark Cuban, Jethro Tull and Thee!

May 16, 2008

BoomTown / Kara Swisher

It's clear that Yahoo and its CEO and Co-Founder Jerry Yang have got to be a little more than miffed that billionaire entrepreneur Mark Cuban is on billionaire investor Carl Icahn's board as he begins ...

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Y! Mail US Beta Blog: Taglines eliminated: newshound shortage could ...

May 16, 2008

Planet Yahoo! / Ryan

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More On WPP-Yahoo Exchange Deal: Walrath: 'We've Reached Scale'

May 16, 2008

paidContent.org / David Kaplan

Although WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell coined the term "frenemy" to describe Google's (NSDQ: GOOG) relationship to the ad industry, to a lesser degree the the word was often applied to Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) ...

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Yahoo seeks to conceal parts of shareholder suit

May 16, 2008

Seattle Post-Intelligencer: High-Tech

SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo Inc. is seeking to conceal large portions of a shareholder lawsuit alleging the Internet company's board improperly thwarted Micrsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion takeover offer, raisi ...

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What If Microsoft Doesn't Want Icahn's Yahoo!

May 16, 2008

BusinessWeek Online -- Tech Beat

Time to play let's pretend. Assume that Carl Icahn wins his proxy fight and installs his board at Yahoo! with the express intent of selling the company to Microsoft. But what if Microsoft, which does ...

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Yahoo Taking It From All Sides

May 16, 2008

Internet Marketing Solutions for Marketers - ClickZ

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The Internets are alive: Hornets at Spurs, Game 6 (Yahoo! ...

May 16, 2008

Yahoo! Sports - NBA - New Orleans Hornets News

Scanning the blogs and beats following the Spurs' 99-80 win over the Hornets in Game 6 of the Western... ...

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WPP sets up Yahoo alliance (at FT.com)

May 16, 2008

Interet Co Feeds

WPP has announced a two-fold alliance with Yahoo, days after Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of the advertising group expressed his disappointment that Microsoft's offer for the internet company h ...

Yahoo Seeks to Conceal Parts of Shareholder Suit, Says Lawyer

May 16, 2008

Law.com - Newswire

A lawyer for Yahoo shareholders says Yahoo is seeking to conceal large portions of a suit alleging the company's board improperly thwarted Microsoft's $47.5 billion takeover offer. In a letter sent Fr ...

Google Overtakes Yahoo as Most-visited US Web Site

May 16, 2008

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The bad news just doesn't seem to end for Yahoo As the Internet portal prepares to fend off a proxy fight by billionaire... ...

Yahoo tries to conceal lawsuit documents

May 16, 2008

CNET News.com | Tech news blog - Category: / Stephen Shankland

Yahoo and shareholders suing the company don't see eye to eye about how public some documents involved in the case should be. The documents involve details of a severance plan Yahoo adopted after ...

Yahoo seeks to conceal parts of shareholder suit (AP)

May 16, 2008

Yahoo! Finance: Mergers & Aquisitions News

Yahoo Inc. is seeking to conceal large portions of a shareholder lawsuit alleging the Internet company's board improperly thwarted Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion takeover offer, raising shareholder q ...

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May 16, 2008

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Yang rallies Yahoo staff against Icahn challenge

May 16, 2008

guardian.co.uk Technology / Andrew Clark

Jerry Yang, Yahoo's chief executive implored his 14,000 staff to stick to their day jobs in spite of an audacious effort by the billionaire corporate raider Carl Icahn to unseat the internet firm's en ...

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