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Yahoo at New 52-Week Low
CrossingWallStreet.com — ... Yahoo’s (YHOO) share price. I just couldn’t see how or why the stock was going for $31 a share. I said on several occasions that ...

Thursday links: thought and choice
Abnormal Returns — ... The need to be right vs. the need to make money.  (TraderFeed) Beware small ETFs.  (Market Movers) The great ETF washout begins.  (WSJ.com) More talk about GE (GE) being in for tough times, or not.  (WSJ.com also Clusterstock) $31 a share is looking pretty good to Yahoo! (YHOO) shareholders these days.  (Deal Journal, ...

Friday links: absurdly volatile
Abnormal Returns — ... there are no good solutions.”  (Aleph Blog) The best way to profit from a stabilization in the muni markets.  (Accrued Interest) This has got disaster (and future government bailout) written all over it -a General Motors (GM)-Chrysler merger.  (NYTimes.com, TheDeal.com) Please end the Microsoft (MSFT)-Yahoo! (YHOO) talk once and for all.  (DealBook, Deal ...

Yahoo Cuts off its Wang
CrossingWallStreet.com — I’ve never understood the market’s love affair with Yahoo (YHOO). While the stock was around $30, I said that it should be half that much. At one point last week, the shares fell below $10—and that’s still too high. I’ll give them credit for making money, but they don’t make too much. Earnings-per-share will probably drop for the third straight year. After a little over a year running things, Jerry Yang is leaving the CEO slot. It’s about time. This guy really had no idea what he was doing. Not surprisingly, the stock is up strongly today. That’s got to be embarrassing. In ...

Former Athenahealth, RelayHealth Leaders Form Startup Maria Health, with Venrock Headlining Investor Group
Xconomy — ... stepped down from his full-time post there earlier this year, not too long after the company raised $113 million in its September 2007 initial public offering. The other co-founder of Maria and the young firm’s CEO, Giovanni Colella, is a former chief executive of another notable health-care IT company, RelayHealth, based in Atlanta. According to Maria’s cryptic Web site, the firm also has on staff former employees of Internet giant Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO), but Amar declined to name names. Maria has pretty well managed to stay off the press’s ...

Clearwire Closes WiMax Merger, Entellium Goes on Sale, Microsoft May Yet Buy Yahoo Search, & More Seattle-Area Deals News
Xconomy — ... Yahoo’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) search business for $20 billion. The veracity of the report has been seriously disputed, but it raises some interesting questions about the near-term future of the two companies. ...

Microsoft Hires Head of Online Services from Yahoo
Xconomy — ... it has appointed Qi Lu as president of its online services group, which encompasses all of the company’s online search, advertising, information, and communications services. Lu was most recently Yahoo’s executive vice president of engineering for search and advertising technology. Before spending 10 years at Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO), Lu, 47, held positions at IBM, Carnegie Mellon University, and Fudan University in China. He starts at Microsoft on January 5, and will report directly to CEO Steve Ballmer. On the way out is Brian McAndrews, former CEO of aQuantive and ...

Borealis Ventures: The Real Venture Capitalists from New Hampshire
Xconomy — ... ) for $72 million in 1997, and he stayed on for a time as a general manager for San Rafael, CA-based Autodesk after the transaction. Rightmire is known for having been one of the first 10 employees at Internet powerhouse Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO), and he later became chief operating officer of Sunnyvale, CA-based online marketing firm Efficient Frontier. ...

AdReady Powers Yahoo Display Ads
Xconomy — ... Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) to deliver self-serve display advertising for the Sunnyvale, CA-based Internet giant. Financial terms of the partnership were not announced. The pilot program is designed to help small and medium-sized businesses reach their audiences on Yahoo (and its partner sites), which has 165 million users in the U.S., with locally targeted display ads. ...

Microsoft Hires Three New Internet Execs
Xconomy — ... ) is not letting the economy slow it down, hiring three new executives focused on Web search and Internet from Sunnyvale, CA-based Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO), according to a report in ...

Reports: Microsoft and Yahoo Close Search and Advertising Deal, Will Announce Today
Xconomy — ... ) and Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) are about to tie the knot, according to several media outlets. The Wall Street Journal’s All Things Digital blog, citing multiple sources close to the situation, ...

Inside the Microsoft-Yahoo Deal, and the Future of the Search Competition with Google
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Inside the Microsoft-Yahoo Deal, Covance Buys Merck’s Rosetta Lab, Delve Teams Up with Akamai, & More Seattle-Area Deals News
Xconomy — ... Gregory T. Huang wrote: Last week’s heat wave did nothing to slow the deal announcements in the Northwest. We saw plenty of action in software, Internet, and biotech. —The big news was the Internet search deal finally announced between Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO), who have been hammering out the details for months. As Eric and I reported, the 10-year partnership puts Microsoft in charge of both companies’ search engine technology, while Yahoo will run ...

Microsoft Sells Razorfish, EnerG2 Scores Stimulus Funds, Tekmira Teams Up with Alnylam, & More Seattle-Area Deals News
Xconomy — ... . It will also hire 400 Yahoo employees, plus another 150 to assist with the transition. Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) can opt out of the deal if it isn’t approved within a year, or if Microsoft and Yahoo’s combined share of the search market dips below an undisclosed percentage. ...

DivX and Yahoo Settle Suit
Xconomy — ... it has settled a lawsuit with Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) over an advertising agreement that triggered some turmoil at DivX last fall. Terms were not disclosed, but DivX says the settlement will boost its third-quarter operating income by 29 cents per share. With about 32.8 million shares outstanding, that suggests a settlement of $9.5 million. ...

Chipmaker Sequoia Communications Out of Business, DivX Settles Yahoo Lawsuit, Connect Proposes Venture Initiative, & Other San Diego BizTech News
Xconomy — ... HLXW), which is developing vertical-axis wind turbines, has agreed to buy the assets of two Oregon wind turbine companies in a bankruptcy case. The non-binding contracts for Abundant Renewable Energy and Renewable Engineering, which have the same owners, could be worth as much as $6.5 million. Helix has been moving to expand its product line of small-scale turbines. —San Diego video codec developer DivX (NASDAQ: DIVX) and Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) settled a lawsuit that DivX filed after Yahoo backed out of an ...

Chipmaker Sequoia Communications Out of Business, DivX Settles Yahoo Lawsuit, Connect Proposes Venture Initiative, & Other San Diego BizTech News
Xconomy — ... HLXW), which is developing vertical-axis wind turbines, has agreed to buy the assets of two Oregon wind turbine companies in a bankruptcy case. The non-binding contracts for Abundant Renewable Energy and Renewable Engineering, which have the same owners, could be worth as much as $6.5 million. Helix has been moving to expand its product line of small-scale turbines. —San Diego video codec developer DivX (NASDAQ: DIVX) and Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) settled a lawsuit that DivX filed after Yahoo backed out of an ...