Archive for the “Yahoo” category
Yahoo Keeps An Eye On Bottom Line, While Google Goes Robotic
by Tony Hung on November 8, 2007
I wondered how Google will directly benefit from the OpenSocial API a few days ago, particularly as more bloggers believe it to be a whole lot of hot air, and now it looks like Yahoo is answering. That is, on (…)
While Alibaba Has IPO Bonanza, Yahoo Faces Tough Questions In Congress
by Tony Hung on November 6, 2007
Duncan Riley reports that Alibaba has had the typical — or perhaps, more than typical — run up of a hotly expected internet IPO, with its stock price shooting up around 160% of its initial offering. The big obvious winner (…)
I Have Mash Invites — Who Wants One?
by Tony Hung on September 16, 2007
Thanks to a kind invite by Sam Harrelson (via cost per news), I am now in Mash doing … uh, Mashy-type things. Its quite a lot like Facebook, with a few subtle differences, such as the ability to move around (…)
Yahoo’s Mash Faces Two Big Challenges (Not The Least Of Which Is “Yet-Another-Itis”).
by Tony Hung on September 15, 2007
Yahoo has released its social network “Mash” into beta, with a limited number of invites circulating around your favourite social networking sites. I’ve yet to actually play with it myself (not deigned to being big or influential enough to get (…)
With Its Acquisition By Yahoo!, BuzzTracker May Leap Over Rivals
by Tony Hung on September 14, 2007
So you may have heard that Yahoo! snapped up BuzzTracker, a rather small potato in a field of news/blog aggregators, for a cool $5 million dollars. The details can be found courtesy of Kara Swisher at AllThingsD.com over here. Like (…)
Should Yahoo Buy Facebook? The Non-Glib Answer.
by Tony Hung on August 4, 2007
So, Bear Stearns, the investment banking and hedge goliath who can’t seem to get sub-prime mortgages right – whose two hedge funds declared bankruptcy in the midst of some of the steepest drops in the stock market memory — is (…)
3 Questions Yahoo! SmartAds Needs To Answer
by Tony Hung on July 2, 2007
Namely, issues around how it works, and how it plans to solve some perception problems with ad-execs.