News and “People Like That”: Carol Bartz Q & A

"We have partnerships with local publications and an association with newspapers. They send us news feeds. We send viewers back to their dot-com locations. So we actually are very symbiotic with people like that".

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Why We Have a Hard Time Thinking of Yahoo as a News Company

Bartz hardly seemed like the proud captain of a news enterprise. You know, the news, it's just so negative, so ungainly, just too darn hard to understand...The CEO of this $6.5 billion company, who is "on Yahoo all day", is just another one of those Americans who just can't through the Tea ...

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Frankly, Candidly, Truthfully: Newspapers CEOs Talk About 2Q

It’s time for second-quarter newspaper earnings reports, with Gannett leading off Wednesday, with the long tale of woe to follow. Given the many newspaper staff cutbacks, which I thought might include the investor relations people, I’ve put together a few boilerplate remarks that I ...

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Yahoo: The Final (Star) Trek?

Yahoo’s announced reorg prompted more huhs than huzzahs last week. For instance: "The statements from both Sue Decker and Jerry Yang sound sort of like B-school jargon with the soothing tone of a dentist’s assistant, none of it really acknowledging that anything is wrong at the ...

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Yahoo and Newspapers: Playing with Fire

As Yahoo burns, the newspaper industry watches, hoping it won’t get singed. The Google/Yahoo search ad agreement has drawn lots of comments over the past couple of weeks, but its impact on newspaper consortium members has gotten little attention. The deal itself, if implemented, ...

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