Unlike the average San Franciscan, I am a big fan of Yahoo! I use their email - have for years - and despite many attempts to move away (NetVibes the latest one), my browser opens every morning to Yahoo! But the shadows of Mountain View (aka Google) alas are too dark. Everyone is determined to compare these two companies when, outside of the online ad business, they are indeed different companies. Unfortunately, Yahoo! has struggled to monetize their half billion or so users and as a result, still depend heavily on a Google-like model to make Wall Street happy.
So, as much I am a not a big fan of any Valley companies being inhaled to Redmond, it seems that the timing fits. Better this than to watch a once-considered brilliant company falter through our not-so-pending (as in it's already here) slowdown. Lets just hope they can find enough other parties to drive up the price...
Sunday, February 3, 2008
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