In a report by Fortune magazine, News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch predicted Wednesday that Carl Icahn’s proxy fight for control of Yahoo will fail, but it will “make him a few hundred million dollars.”
Murdoch also said that at one point, Yahoo and his company tried to work out their own deal. He said the two […]

[Read more →]

According to a report by ComScore, Inc. released today, Google’s growth in “paid clicks,” rose sharply in April.
Meanwhile paid clicks for Microsoft  and Yahoo declined.
Google’s paid clicks increased 20% in April compared with the same period a year earlier.
Yahoo saw a 4.4% decline in paid clicks in April compared with the period a year earlier […]

[Read more →]

Yahoo postponed it’s annual meeting which was schudeled for July 3, to an undetermined date in late July, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
This is the second time Yahoo has postponed its annual meeting, usually held in May or June. The previous delay, announced in March, gave Yahoo more time […]

[Read more →]

Google co-founder Larry Page said Thursday the Internet search leader opposed a Microsoft-Yahoo deal because it would monopolize the online communications market, stifle innovation and curb competition.
But he discounted the idea that an advertising deal between Google and Yahoo would present any potential antitrust problems.
Page said a successful Microsoft-Yahoo deal would have closed “a lot […]

[Read more →]

In a report today Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer stated that is not looking to bid to buy all of Yahoo Inc. but is in talks about other types of deals.
“We are not bidding to buy Yahoo.
“Yet, we are trying to have discussions about deals with Yahoo that might create value, but not a whole acquisition […]

[Read more →]

Communicate.com, db/a Live Current Media,  one of the stocks in our Domain Parking Stock Index reported its 1st quarter financial results for the period ended March 31, 2008.
Total revenues for the 1st quarter totaled $1.9 million, an increase of approximately 10%, […]

[Read more →]

According to a report in the Associated Press, Google for the first time, has passed Yahoo as the most popular Web destination in the U.S., according to research firm comScore Inc.
Google U.S. audience grew 18% in April compared with the period a year earlier, to 141.1 million.
Yahoo’s U.S. audience, grew only 7% to 140.6 million.
Microsoft  […]

[Read more →]

Late today, reports surfaced that Carl Icahn acquired up to 50 million shares in Yahoo.
According to the reports, Icahn is considering mounting a proxy fight to take control of the board of directors at Yahoo.
Shares of Yahoo were up more than 5% in afternoon trading, after having been down over $1 a share earlier in […]

[Read more →]

So now that Microsoft attempt to buy Yahoo has failed (at least for now) what can Microsoft do to take traffic away from Yahoo and Google and put it towards MSN??
How about buy domains. More specifically large domain portfolio and redirect the traffic to MSN.
Microsoft was willing to spend 46 Billion for Yahoo.
By all […]

[Read more →]

According to a report in the Wall Street Journal today, Google may be getting cold feet. In a last-ditch effort to avoid a merger with Microsoft, Yahoo said it was considering teaming with Google in a search advertising deal. But some Google executives are now questioning whether that’s a good idea
Google knows any deal with […]

[Read more →]