Here’s the partial release text (full text here): SUNNYVALE, Calif. – January 23, 2007 – Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO) today reported results for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2006. Fourth Quarter 2006 Financial Results * Revenues were $1,702 million for the fourth quarter of 2006, a 13 percent increase compared to …
It must be something of a pressure cooker inside Yahoo! at the moment. Needless to say the Internet world awaits the Yahoo! Q4 earnings announcement tomorrow (5pm ET). Google’s Q4 announcement is coming next week (1/31). There will be lots of scrutiny on the numbers and the words from Terry Semel and Sue Decker. It’s …
From Reuters and the AdSense blog: Over the next few weeks we’ll be testing AdSense video distribution and sponsorship with a small group of publishers. You may remember us doing a similar trial last year with MTV Networks, where we distributed ad-supported MTV video content to publishers who displayed the content on their sites. This …
Not a huge deal, but here’s the release noting the functionality and enchancements. It underscores that mobile is being taken very seriously and the competitors are jockying for consumer awareness and (later) ad dollars. AT&T is in a potentially strong position because it now effectively “owns” the yellow pages brand with YellowPages.com. Depending on how …
ClickZ and Bill Slawski discuss Google patent filings related to local kioks and billboards (at malls). From the ClickZ article: Google said the system would then generate an advertising campaign specifying where on the display devices the advertisement message will appear. “The output may consist of various forms, including video, audio, printed incentive, interactive data …
Yahoo! now has what might be called “a formula” for creating verticals: branded content + video + community/Answers + personalization tools. That describes the recently launched Yahoo! Food and it describes the just launched Yahoo! Personal Finance. (You can read more about the new Finance site here from CNet’s Elinor Mills or the WSJ.) Essentially …
comScore is putting out two reports on cell phone usage and attitudes in the US. Here’s the press release. I’ve written up the top-level findings at SEL. I focus more here on the local aspects/implications of the data. Only 17% of US mobile users currently subscribe to wireless Internet access (in contrast to SMS). Here …
So-called vertical search is all the rage. Why? Partly because “horizontal” (general) search has limitations and partly because it’s almost impossible to get VCs to fund a general search engine. Given how entrenched the market is it’s also crazy to try and break into general search without a 5 to 7 year time horizon. This …
Here’s Compete’s relative ranking of the top search engines for December 2006: And here’s comScore’s December 2006 US market share data (6.7 billion total searches): The two sites disagree on Yahoo! and AOL directionally. For Yahoo! comScore shows a gain; Compete shows a loss of share. Regarding AOL, Compete shows a bit of a recovery …
The NY Times’ Bob Tedeschi writes about an emerging category of sites forming a kind of “virtual town square,” so-called hyperlocal content sites (awkward term) that focus on particular communities or neighborhoods. The article focuses on three sites in and around New York: American Towns Network’s Pleasantville, NY site, the Barista of Bloomfield Avenue (NJ) …
