Comments on: Yahoo’s Three-Year Plan: Grow Revenues 73 Percent By Focusing on Display Ads, Mobile, and Better Search

By: petter

petter — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:32:29 +0000

I would like this graph and info

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Lienuks.nl » NieuwsWeekOverzicht 12 — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:50:57 +0000

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Yahoo’s Three-Year Plan: Grow Revenues 73 Percent | Venture Chronicles — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:57:37 +0000

[...] Yahoo is projecting revenues after traffic acquisition costs (TAC)—i.e., what it shares with other Websites that run Yahoo ads—to grow from $5.1 billion in 2007 to $8.8 billion in 2010.[From Yahoo’s Three-Year Plan: Grow Revenues 73 Percent By Focusing on Display Ads, Mobile, and Better S...] [...]

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ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA « Daily Marauder — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:49:54 +0000

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By: Voices

Voices — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 22:35:36 +0000

Yahoo! is a great company and the plan is optimistic. Growth in search is possible, but mobile advertising in North America has gone nowhere to date. On the flip-side, that can only mean that mobile in the US *can* go somewhere.

By: nitsuj

nitsuj — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:50:13 +0000

Apparently Jerry and crew have been hanging out at the medical marijuana places around the bay…

By: no-more-microsoft-yahoo-cheatcode

no-more-microsoft-yahoo-cheatcode — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:45:58 +0000

i don’t think the graph work for yahoo because yahoo don’t have any improvement in their ad network at all. they can only achieve the revenue using stock but not ad!

By: Sneezy Melon

Sneezy Melon — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 21:30:06 +0000

Good for YOU! Forget Microsoft!

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:56:42 +0000

Wow, that’s presentation from an ex-McKinsey consultant if I’ve ever seen one.

By: Ankur Jain

Ankur Jain — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:49:58 +0000

How can I see the similar filings for Google and Microsoft? I searched for 8-k forms on Edgar website. But, it seems that Google uploaded only their financial information (no presentation / gif files similar to what Yahoo did).

Any ideas?

-Ankur

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By: noam

noam — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:02:37 +0000

I believe Yahoo! will do much better in the near future.
I think Yahoo! still attracts major traffic to its sites and that if it focuses on translating that traffic into revenue, they have a good chance of succeeding.

I think the Microsoft threat will serve as an accelerator and that they will simply do more because of it. They now know that they simply do not have a choice in the matter.

The question is not about Yahoo’s potential, it is about its capabilities. I believe Yahoo! is still capable of doing better.

The recent layoffs Yahoo! has undergone will help reduce some of its overhead and will create better revenue, as well.

By: BadService

BadService — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:54:16 +0000

They need to focus on customer service asap.

It is unbelievable after a week emailing them I haven’t received a single reply for a problem I have with their web hosting service.

My site is down, I am losing revenue and they don’t seem to care.

Be careful who you trust your business to.

By: YDRIVE

YDRIVE — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:42:42 +0000

Yahoo! would certainly need to continue adding more assets… look at EMC, eg., they’ve added quite a bit of assets these days, ie., Mozy, PiCorp, Iomega, etc.. and not to mention their VMWare investments…!!

Revenues are certainly important.. but retaining the hard-earned user base is all the more important, too.. for if you don’t keep them, others will take them.. see Gmail gained all these near 100M users in slightly 3.x years time.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:30:16 +0000

Hmm. If they told their board this, then it MUST be true.

Wait. Actually, Yahoo has had years to get themselves in gear and do something. But all they’ve done is milked a declining asset. I don’t think they have what it takes to get this done anymore.

By: Ghaus

Ghaus — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:28:52 +0000

Now this is Great

By: GoMo News

GoMo News — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:15:17 +0000

Yahoo! positioned for accelerated financial growth says Jerry Yang…

link: http://yhoo.cli...eleaseID=300145
“Yahoo! is positioned for accelerated financial growth – we have a powerful consumer brand, a huge global audience and a highly profitable operating model,” s…

By: jro

jro — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:11:08 +0000

Over the past 3 years, YHOO revenue growth has been roughly 33% (taken from http://finance....YHOO&annual). Now, they’re going to more than *double* that growth over the next 3 years, in the current economic climate?

Obviously difficult to predict the future, but banking on higher clickthroughs and the unfettered success of just-recently-announced offerings (Buzz, Open Search) is asking reasonable people to swallow a LOT.

Great goals, but any healthy skepticism cuts these projections dramatically.

By: daikana.com

daikana.com — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:32:12 +0000

I think that Yahoo could be a great company. I do like Microsoft (I know, weird isn’t it?) but I really think that Yahoo should fight off the acquisition. And that probably starts with a new management team.

By: dan

dan — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:31:13 +0000

are banner ads really the way to get back on the path to dominance? They are getting waxed on search ad revenue and are just looking for suckers to give them $ so they can get .01% ctrs.

By: Dan Gudema

Dan Gudema — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:27:26 +0000

I guess this is a sign the Google upward cycle may have hit its apex. First Google’s announces not so impressive future earnings, and their stock drops.

Now the second coming of Yahoo! If AOL can have several revivals and lives, why can’t the company that created the first search engine with critical mass? As far as MS, make them pay 10 times for the company at a peak… if they really want them. I say look for a better partner with more class like Disney or Universal, one which doesn’t want to just turn off the lights…