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Yahoo on Search and Advertising Post Microsoft Deal

Now that Yahoo and Microsoft have received DoJ and EU approval on their search and advertising deal, Yahoo is doing plenty of talking about what the deal will mean for its search engine and its advertisers. The two companies have a Search Alliance page set up that gives some insight about what to expect, such as: When the Yahoo! and Microsoft Search Alliance is implemented, both companies will continue...

DOJ Approves MSFT-Yahoo Deal

UPDATE: As stated in a press release a Microsoft representative emailed to WebProNews, "Microsoft (Nasdaq ‘MSFT’) and Yahoo! (Nasdaq ‘YHOO’) announced today that they have received clearance for their search agreement, without restrictions, from both the U.S. Department of Justice and the European Commission, and will now turn their attention to beginning the process...

Report: EU To Approve Microsoft-Yahoo Deal

The proposed Microsoft-Yahoo search partnership may soon be approved by one set of regulators, at least.  A new report indicates that the European Commission will give it a green light one week from today. We should note that this isn’t a sure thing; according to Reuters, an unnamed person who’s "familiar with the situation" just said, "I expect clearance without any...

Microsoft Exec Talks Bing Success/Profitability

Here are a couple of simple facts: Microsoft’s online services business lost $466 million during the last financial quarter, and most research firms put Google’s share of the search market at least 45 percentage points above Yahoo’s.  Still, Microsoft believes Bing can be competitive and profitable. Yusuf Mehdi, the senior vice president of Microsoft’s online audience business,...

Australia, Canada Approve Microsoft-Yahoo Deal

We’ll admit it: so far, most conversations concerning the Microsoft-Yahoo deal and antitrust issues have related to the U.S. and Europe.  Still, two potential roadblocks were eliminated yesterday when the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the Canadian Competition Bureau signaled their intent not to oppose the partnership. The development’s official, and Microsoft and...

Microsoft, Yahoo May Extend Partnership Outside The U.S.

Microsoft’s CEO isn’t getting ahead of himself; for the time being, Steve Ballmer’s taking a "first things first" approach.  However, he indicated today that if the proposed U.S.-only Microsoft-Yahoo search partnership goes through, an international agreement may follow. According to Mayumi Negishi, Ballmer said at a news conference in Tokyo, "It’s possible...

Microsoft, Yahoo Miss Agreement Deadline

The proposed Microsoft-Yahoo deal seems to have hit a small and oddly unspecified bump.  The companies missed an October 27th deadline by which they hoped to have some details ironed out. Yahoo admitted yesterday in an SEC filing, "The Letter Agreement specified that the parties would execute Definitive Agreements by October 27, 2009, but given the complex nature of the transaction, there...

Carl Icahn Quits Yahoo’s Board Of Directors

Another noteworthy event in the long, strange tale of the Microsoft-Yahoo deal has occurred: about 15 months after securing his seat on Yahoo’s board of directors, Carl Icahn has resigned the position. It’s important to note that the move isn’t supposed to be interpreted as the first step in starting another fight.  Or even as a sign of disapproval.  In fact, in a letter...

Advertising Powerhouses Champion Microsoft-Yahoo Deal

It would seem that everybody who’s anybody in the advertising industry wants the Microsoft-Yahoo deal to go through.  Today, the president and CEO of the American Association of Advertising Agencies, along with the heads of all four major ad holding companies, signed her name to a letter of support. First, a little background info: The AAAA has an extremely impressive membership roster,...

Yahoo “Might Be Open” To Letting Google On Homepage

The Yahoo search experience might at some point change in a very surprising way.  That Bing may take over, we’ve come to accept.  But at least one high-ranking Yahoo employee thinks Google could get a shot, too. Let’s talk about said employee for a moment.  Burke Culligan is the senior director of product planning and strategy over Yahoo’s front page and My Yahoo, so...

Justice Department Asks Microsoft, Yahoo For More Info

Even though the combined search market shares of Microsoft and Yahoo won’t approach Google’s stake in terms of size, the Justice Department isn’t giving their proposed deal a free pass.  In fact, the government entity’s decided to ask Microsoft and Yahoo for more information. On the surface, this development doesn’t look great for the two companies.  They probably...

UK Yahoo Portal Switches to Google, Not Bing

UK site Connected Internet this week found that BT Yahoo, which is an online portal for BT Broadband users, and is run by Yahoo, is using Google Search now, rather than Yahoo search, which has been in place. The move is obviously a bit strange, considering that Microsoft and Yahoo have a famous search/advertising deal in the works, which would see Yahoo Search in general being replaced by Microsoft’s...

Analyst Predicts Big Gains For Yahoo Post-Microsoft Deal

Maybe Yahoo’s deal with Microsoft was a smart move, after all.  RBC analyst Ross Sandler has stepped forward to say that it’ll have a positive financial effect on Carol Bartz’s company, boosting certain figures significantly above forecasted levels.  According to Henry Blodget, Sandler wrote in a note to RBC clients, "We have taken an extensive look at Yahoo’s...

Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Full Of Termination Clauses

Although Microsoft and Yahoo (finally) announced a partnership one week ago, it seems that the deal is far from unbreakable.  Indeed, Yahoo’s shared a few details with the S.E.C., and there are a number of interesting termination provisions attached to the arrangement. The first can kick in if much more heel-dragging occurs, or more specifically, "if the conditions to commencement have...

Microsoft, Yahoo CEOs Comment On Employees’ Fates

Personnel-related "efficiencies" can be good or bad, depending on one’s perspective.  Companies want to save money, of course, and their shareholders also appreciate savings.  But employees like to keep their jobs.  So let’s take a look at what sort of effect the Microsoft-Yahoo deal may have. On Microsoft’s side of things, not much is supposed to change. ...