2006-10-03 04:09:24 · 9 answers · asked by jerry_crgm 1 in Business & Finance ➔ Other - Business & Finance
yeah, right.
2006-10-03 04:10:57 · answer #1 · answered by keuball 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, not at all. Though, with Wall Street having dumped shares twice in the last three months, business is by no means booming. Yahoo is still recovering from their decision in the late 90's not to focus discretely on the search engine, instead thinking it would be more of a feature of their gateway to the web and, thus, leaving the door wide open to Google. Through initiatives like Panama, though, Yahoo hopes to regain market share by positioning itself as an all-around online media company offering the full gamut of advertising, from pay-per-click text snippets on search pages to interactive banners.
2006-10-03 11:18:58 · answer #2 · answered by Jericho 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nope, ain't gonna happen.
It's a publicly traded company (YHOO on Nasdaq), with a market capitalization of about $34 billion. You don't just shut down something like that.
You want to know one really successful part of Yahoo? It's right here, Yahoo Answers. You know why? Because they get all of us doing their work for them, for free.
Here's what CNN Money says about us unpaid Yahoo workers:
(Business 2.0 Magazine) -- There are a few clouds gathering around Yahoo these days. The Internet star's delay in rolling out a crucial new advertising system sideswiped its stock price in July, and investors remain jittery about its prospects against Google, Microsoft, and other rivals. But one ray of sunshine is beaming at the company's Sunnyvale, Calif., headquarters: Yahoo Answers. An online Q&A service, Yahoo Answers has become the second most popular Internet reference site after Wikipedia, according to Comscore. In June, Yahoo Answers attracted 12.3 million unique visitors, a 35 percent spike from the previous month. (For comparison, media sensation YouTube had 13.4 million visitors in June.) During the same period, 947,000 people clicked on Google Answers, down 4 percent from May. The secret to Yahoo Answers's success? Get your tens of millions of users to create your next hot product - and then give it away. On Yahoo Answers, anyone can ask any question, from the inane to the articulate, and get a response from, well, just about anyone. For free. It's a MySpace for know-it-alls and the perpetually clueless.
http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/business2_archive/2006/09/01/8384345/index.htm?source=aol_quote
(Note: did you see that? CNN just called us "perpetually clueless!" My gosh, that's from the really clueless folks at CNN Time Warner, who sold out to the jerks at AOL.)
2006-10-03 11:10:31 · answer #3 · answered by Jim 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Google MSN, and Hugo Chavez have convinced the Yahoo board to begin liquidating assets and then return the proceeds via special dividends to the shareholders.
2006-10-03 11:20:44 · answer #4 · answered by milt_skeeter 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What happened jerry,lost out on the chance to buy google?
2006-10-03 11:16:43 · answer #5 · answered by onelonevoice 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, they are tired of carrying all that money to the bank.
2006-10-03 11:11:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perfect reason to not believe everything you hear. I'll believe it when I see it.
2006-10-03 11:16:54 · answer #7 · answered by pottersclay70 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think so, business is booming.
2006-10-03 11:10:19 · answer #8 · answered by bubbles26 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you were caught too
2006-10-03 11:11:10 · answer #9 · answered by indike111 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋