Comments on: Let’s Trash Yahoo During Happy Hour

By: rick wells

rick wells — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 04:30:43 +0000

Happy Hour would be less annoying if they would hit the delete on Rebecca Diamond. I don’t want to end a poor day of watching the markets fall and socialism rising by listening to some obama cheerleader. She is a liberal that knows nothing about free market trade but she is great eye candy. I have nothing against t & a being used to draw in viewers but this is ridiculous. She should be sent back to the stripper pole from whence she came ASAP!

By: racetalkblog.com » Fox Business Pulls a Fast One on Michael Arrington: What a surprise….

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 02:31:06 +0000

[...] Michael Arrington over at TechCrunch had a fast one pulled on him yesterday on the Fox Business “Happy Hour” show. Arrington notes on TechCrunch that he was [...]

By: Microsoft Crosses A Line

Microsoft Crosses A Line — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:08:08 +0000

[...] Yahoo. A couple of days before Microsoft placed its initial $44.6 billion bid for the company, I told Fox Business Channel that a Microsoft merger had to happen to save Yahoo (and I certainly [...]

By: chrispuravida

chrispuravida — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:16:51 +0000

in fact now that i look at their banner they were even using his blog name in the segment brand. this jerk is that unappreciative that he goes on their show, they basically promote his stupid blog, and then he slams him. what a classless asshole.

By: chrispuravida

chrispuravida — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:14:39 +0000

did it occur to any of you that this guy arrington is lying? that it is possible that fox business did tell him the topic? that he is a blogger desperate for attention and knows that fox is an easy target? based on what i’ve seen of happy hour it doesn’t seem like a show that would do this. and what’s more…what’s the point of ambushing him about… yahoo? something he freely admits he knows how to talk about. worst case scenario here is some kind of communication mixup. this guy sounds like a loser and an asshole. and you are a bunch of sorry asses for taking this hook line and sinker.

By: Microsoft Offers $44.6 billion for Yahoo | Bigg Magazine

Microsoft Offers $44.6 billion for Yahoo | Bigg Magazine — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:18:27 +0000

[...] stated during his appearance on Fox Business this week that Yahoo could face a takeover by Microsoft as part of an ad play, and he was right. [...]

By: Andy

Andy — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:41:39 +0000

Nice call here, Mike. 2 days is all it took.

By: tech-talk.biz » Blog Archive » Microsoft bids $44.6bn to acquire Yahoo

tech-talk.biz » Blog Archive » Microsoft bids $44.6bn to acquire Yahoo — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 18:08:59 +0000

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Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:28:55 +0000

[...] Arrington from Techcrunch has also predicted a couple of days ago in his appearance on Fox Business that Yahoo could face a takeover by [...]

By: Jan’s Tech Blog » Microsoft收購Yahoo!

Jan’s Tech Blog » Microsoft收購Yahoo! — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:05:16 +0000

[...] 寫這篇文章時，Microsoft只是提出收購建議，以446億美元(包括現金與股票)來收購Yahoo!，事情未有定案。如果成事，這絕對是一宗十分震撼的收購。The New York Times的Bits Blog稱，這次Microsoft提出的是「An Offer Yahoo Can’t Refuse」。 TechCrunch的Michael Arrington早兩天已經明言，Yahoo!現在面對一個十分尷尬的景況。他們一是放棄自己的廣告事業，與Google拍夥爭取營利，或者是被Microsoft收歸旗下。Yahoo!表現不濟，近期更計劃解僱一千員工，面對如此艱難的困局，被收購也不失為一條「生路」。 [...]

By: raj

raj — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:58:16 +0000

This is a great news for users,webmasters and Advertisers (but not for Google)
The WWW will be surely more competitive again….
The Search will get better…

http://www.Find1234.com

By: Philippe Chrun

Philippe Chrun — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:49:03 +0000

Yahoo! has a Chinese CEO and is gonna become bigger in China, the soon-to-be world’s #1 internet market. Something to think about… Unless Guan Xi doesn’t mean sh*t anymore

By: 起業家の胸ポケット

起業家の胸ポケット — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:23:36 +0000

Yahooがとても厳しい決断を迫られる事態に直面！？…

今日色々と調べている時、非常に気になる記事を見つけた。

TechCrunchに記述されている記事であるが、
Yahooが現在、存続をかけた非常に厳しい状態である旨の記事。

でもUSAのYahooの話…

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:29:29 +0000

As a current employee of the Yahoo! all I can say is this company will pick itself back up, its not going to happen overnight, but we’re stirred in the right direction. Have hope people, infrastructure changes have already begun and the impact has been positive so far.

By: chris hill

chris hill — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 17:42:36 +0000

As an advertiser i have used yahoo for years and i can tell you that his stock deserves to go under. Yahoo treats advertisers with total contempt in my opinion. They are rude, impossible to get on the phone and generally the most aweful people to deal with. Yang needs to fire the ignorant morons in their marketing dept and start again, unless he does this he has no hope whatsoever, thats the truth and they cannot get away from it.

By: I Am Not Posting To Spam My Blog

I Am Not Posting To Spam My Blog — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:47:57 +0000

Don’t be too hard on Fox for giving you the wrong topic – at least they interviewed the right guy. A few months ago a BBC staff member walked into reception asking for ‘Guy’ to come through, meaning the white fuzzy-haired technology expert Guy Kewney who was due to appear as a pundit on BBC News 24. A rather large, bald, black man called Guy Goma who was there for a low-ranking job interview stood up, and was promptly shoved in front of a camera and asked about an Apple lawsuit verdict, whereupon he semi-convincingly blagged his way through the whole thing live on air.

The BBC is arguably one of the most professional broadcasters in the world. The Fox Business Channel (lol) has bigger things to worry about than not knowing why the hell its guests have come on their show.

By: Varon

Varon — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 06:56:05 +0000

Honestly, I’d rather Microsoft buy out Google. I mean Bill could surely buy out Larry and Sergey Brin and still have enough change to buy them over once again just for thrills.

Google has made it a habit to not “compete” but rather buy out competition. Their model shows their intrinsic weakness at innovative competition. Their fear psychosis knows of no other solution than to buy. This is the bottom line of a weak cash cow company with no algorithmic sense.

They thought they’d make the internet a great place with their PR system. Lo and behold, they made an utter mess of their Page Rank theory with they themselves selling off PR 10 links to small businesses in the guise of “listings” and “success stories”. Today, the first page of every prominent search query is loaded with their top advertisers like Sallie Mae, Lending Tree etc. Why? Because these sites, in Google’s opinion have the world’s best content for top financial keywords or is it more to do because they have huge advertising budgets with Google?

Okay… then they start getting after parked domains which in their opinion hold no value to their visitors. Great… ! And so they come up with their own Google Parking program to give their visitor the most lilting user experience on the internet …er “their internet”. Did anyone know, that these parked pages use Google feeds? Sweet Hypocrisy exemplified.

Well, things did start turning sour for Google when they had to make payouts for rampant click fraud on their ultimate search engine. I guess, they blamed it on their partner networks. Because holy Google can do no wrong… Nah… they just want to give their user the ultimate experience. A world where you use Google search, Google Mail, Google Checkout, Google Ads, Google Tool Bars to Check Your PR, And of course Firefox.

If you look a bit more carefully, Google is definitely turning into the internet Walmart. A time will soon arrive when this wondrous holy internet patroller for sanctity and virtue will make your every move on the internet a Googly move. Google candies…Google toys… with easy checkouts… and many more goodies.

With their money power, even a talk show could be paid for by them to bash Yahoo or Microsoft.., I mean, its a Google world. And to think that this company is what it is based on 1 fragile truth… “it made its fortunes by people trusting its search results as the aboslute best, coming to it day after day for free, and Google making money off these free visitors… with nothing else to offer than a crawler bot, …the day these visitors look the other way, …the rest is history.

By: BillyWarhol

BillyWarhol — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 05:11:43 +0000

I hope + pray Yahoo! doesn’t fall into the clutches of MicroPOOP altho it is an obvious possibility*

If they do fall i hope the Purple + Yellow + Sweet Flickr PINK colourz replace the Butt Ugliest baby blue we’ve been Gagging on the past 20 Yearz*

;PPP

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:33:17 +0000

I like Yahoo. I use it as my start page, though I use Google for search. But thats okay. Yahoo needs to keep experimenting with search, but there is probably a lot of fat to cut in many departments across the company. But they also need to recognize that search doesn’t have to be their bread and butter. movies.yahoo.com is excellent. their email client is great. their elections coverage i love. their news summaries are fascinating, etc. etc.

By: Jurado

Jurado — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 04:07:18 +0000

I love Yahoo…you always have other options…:-)

By: jcool617

jcool617 — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:09:42 +0000

Yahoo is still the number 1 destination portal for the over 21 crowd. Its top seller is great E-mail. It has strong media/news in Finance, Fantasy Sports, etc. Content is expensive, perhaps Semel belongs in the movie business. Maybe yahoo can buy Amazon or Ebay. If they want to be a social networking destination, they can expand Yahoo Groups. They have all the elements, e-mail, IM, pics, communities – they just have to tie it all together. I would focus on being a White-Label destination like Ning. Create small or large social networks that people care about and the Users will be loyal.

By: AccuraCast Search Daily News

AccuraCast Search Daily News — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:05:37 +0000

Yahoo! To Downsize Employees And Egos…

No one’s favourite search engine, Yahoo! announced its third quarter results on Wednesday, along with official notice that they will be laying off 1,000 employees.
Yahoo! reported a net loss of $24.1 million or 4 cents per share for the third qua…

By: Larry

Larry — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:25:08 +0000

Why in the world would you agree to go on Faux Business Channel? They have at peak like 6500 viewers and zero credibility! Please Michael! Save yourself while you can!

By: Jenkins

Jenkins — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:41:55 +0000

How incredible, Mike. Maybe *someday* Yahoo will have to make some tough decisions? Wow! Talk about going out on a limb and making bold statements. Are you kidding me? These shocking rumors are patently obvious to any serious Internet person in the know. Good try!

By: Andrew Horowitz, CFP

Andrew Horowitz, CFP — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:37:02 +0000

How about a AOL/Yahoo! merger. Have you noticed the website design. Check out this snapshot and tell me that it they do not share the same graphics/web team.
Something is fishy…

http://www.thed...l-yahoo-merger/

Andrew