Yahoo’s web business is being sold to US telecoms giant for $5bn, adding to Verizon’s online pot which includes AOL. Verizon bought AOL for $4.4bn last year. Yahoo will therefore no longer be an operating company but the owner of ...
Read More »Mail owner joins the queue for Yahoo
Daily Mail and General Trust, which owns the Mail newspapers and Mail Online, has joined the suitors for Yahoo; which shows, if nothing else, that hope springs eternal. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer (below), who joined from Google, has put the ...
Read More »The big problem facing Apple and Yahoo: what the hell do we spend all this money on?
It’s a funny old two-speed world and there’s more proof of it this morning: Apple has announced an $18bn quarterly profit – the biggest by any company in history – while flagging online company Yahoo has finally bowed to financial ...
Read More »Yahoo signs Jose Mourinho for 2014 football fest
Yahoo has signed up Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho as an ambassador cum analyst for its football coverage, including the forthcoming FIFA World Cup in Brazil. This will include Jose’s first big appearance on social media via a new Tumblr site. ...
Read More »Marissa Mayer unveils new Yahoo line-up at CES
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer (left) has announced some new goodies at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. These include: A new Yahoo Advertising platform which includes a unified suite of digital advertising products for premium and audience-focused display, native ...
Read More »Blow for WPP as Joule head Michael Collins quits for indie mobile rival Adelphic
WPP is looking for a new boss for its mobile marketing agency Joule following CEO Michael Collins’ decision to join mobile ad start-up Adelphic. Collins (left) helped to start Joule in 2007. Before that he was US General Manager for ...
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