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The Only Way Investors Will Make Money In Yahoo! Is Through A Buyout (YHOO, GOOG, MSFT)
Wednesday, January 26, 2011 - 3:46pm | 837Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) released its Q4 earnings results yesterday after the closing bell. The company reported adjusted net income of $340.5 million or $0.26 per share compared to $200.2 million or $0.14 per share in the year ago period. This came in moderately ahead of analysts' consensus EPS...
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Yahoo To Be Bought by AOL?
Thursday, October 14, 2010 - 10:09am | 363The Wall Street Journal is reporting that AOL (NYSE: AOL) and some private equity firms are thinking about buying Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO). While there is nothing confirmed at this point, and even the WSJ says Yahoo doesn't know about it yet, but the rumors alone sent Yahoo's stock up 13% in after...
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Carol Bartz Hosting Amateur Hour at Yahoo!
Monday, September 20, 2010 - 11:03am | 281Chief Executive Of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) Carol Bartz has continued the trend of picking up where her predecessor, co-founder Jerry Yang left off, according to Barron's. Barron's reports that "[Bartz] hasn't articulated a comprehensive turnaround plan or jump-started Yahoo! shares, [but] seems to be...
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Carl Icahn Off-Loads Yahoo Shares (YHOO)
Tuesday, May 18, 2010 - 5:01pm | 142Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has slashed his stake in Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO). Icahn currently owns 4 million Yahoo (YHOO) shares, significantly down from the 12 million shares he had at the end of last quarter. According to MarketWatch, the investor owned 75 million Yahoo shares at one point, and...
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Yahoo Gets Approval For New Campus (YHOO)
Thursday, May 13, 2010 - 1:30pm | 141The Santa Clara City Council has approved Yahoo Inc.'s (NASDAQ: YHOO) plan to build a huge, 3 million square foot office campus in the city. The planned campus will have thirteen six story buildings. According to MarketWatch, the proposed campus will have the capacity to accommodate 12,000...
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Yahoo (YHOO) Is Hiring
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 9:17am | 147YAHOO! INC (NASDAQ: YHOO) is no longer in the cost cutting mode. CNBC reports that Yahoo is hiring and is on an expansion mode. As a part of the guidance, the CEO of Yahoo, Carol Bartz also reaffirmed that the company is growing. The CEO was quoted as saying that, in the next 2 – 3 years, Yahoo is...
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Carl Icahn Resigns From Yahoo's Board (YHOO)
Saturday, October 24, 2009 - 1:13pm | 195Carl Icahn, activist investor and one of Yahoo Inc's (NASDAQ: YHOO) more well-known director's, resigned from the Company today. He made news last year for speaking out against Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang's decision not to sell a lumbering Yahoo to Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) for $47.5 billion,...