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October 5, 2007

Quick Hits: Breaking up Yahoo, Blocking Scalpers, etc.

Some quick links people might find interesting:
  • Yahoo has higher value broken up, says a Sanford Bernstein analyst (Reuters)
  • Ticketmaster is cracking down on automated ticket scalping (WSJ)
  • RIM results: revenues and EPS in-line, guidance slightly up (PR)
  • New WSJ entrepreneurship blog (Independent Street)
  • World Rubik's Cube championships underway in Budapest (Bloomberg)
I'm particularly interested in the Yahoo breakup story. As insiders continue to tell me, the company remains internally schizophrenic, with a content side and an ad side, and the two generally talking past one another. I have strong doubts given the personalities involved that a breakup would ever happen, but that doesn't make it any less of an interesting idea.


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dPolls says "unauthorized poll code use" when I click on the Vote button. Are you using unauthorized poll codes, Paul? Shame on you.

Really? That's strange. Can't imagine what it means. And rest assured, of course, that if I could use an "unauthorized poll code", I would.

I predict yahoo is going to do a massive search outsourcing deal with Microsoft that will involve a technology transfer of Panama and other search technologies to Microsoft. msft will take an equity stake in yahoo and yahoo will also begin to consolidate it's data center infrastructure with msft, eventually outsourcing this cost center to msft as well. the thesis is that yahoo is falling behind Microsoft and google in these key areas.