Yahoo has bought the domain name TheVertical.com from Mike Mann's DomainMarket.com The domain name had a buy it now (BIN) price of $15,000. The domain name was sold with Sedo handling the escrow services. The brand protection company Mark Monitor is now the registrar for the domain name. It's interesting that Yahoo purchased the domain since its core business has been reportedly for … [Read more...]
Alphabet and Verizon considering buyout of Yahoo according to report
Greg Sterling published an article on Marketing Land that Yahoo is in play and that Alphabet and Verizon are both interested in acquiring the company. Sterling pieced together a couple recent reports along with data from comScore. Below is a look at the top digital properties according to unique visitors. Read the full story on Marketing Land … [Read more...]
Yahoo reports earnings in line and down 2.3% after hours
Alphabet (Nasdaq:GOOGL) reported strong earnings and the stock hit a new high on the way to becoming the most valuable publicly traded company in the world. The Robin to their Batman, Yahoo (Nasdaq:YHOO) reported earnings today after the close. Yahoo Q4 EPS $0.13 Adj. vs. $0.13 Est.; Q4 Revs. $1.27B vs. $1.19B Est. • $YHOO. The stock is down 2.3% in after hours trading. The company is going … [Read more...]
Yahoo Search Share Dips for February – Google Stands at 78.7% according to StatCounter
Danny Sullivan discussed the February search share stats on Search Engine Land. Yahoo dipped after posting gains in the previous two months. The dip wasn't that big but the company had some good momentum going over the previous two months. The data from StatCounter shows: Google: 78.7% (+0.1%) Yahoo: 10.1% (-0.1%) Bing: 9.8% (+0.1%) From the article: Yahoo’s share of search in the … [Read more...]
Google Sees Its Search Share Slip and Yahoo Sees A Rise On Mozilla Deal
StatCounter reports that Google has seen its search share slip to its lowest level ever in the U.S. In the meantime Yahoo is being buoyed by their new deall with Mozilla that makes them the default search engine. NewsEveryday reported: Google search share has slipped to lowest ever in U.S. - 75.2 percent from 79.3 percent last year, according to an independent analytics firm. On the other … [Read more...]
Yahoo Share grows from 9.6 percent to 29.4 percent in two weeks
Search Engine Land reported that Yahoo has seen a big jump in its share of the search market. The deal made in November to replace Google as the default search engine in Firefox 34 has led to a big jump in percentage points. From the article: Last month Yahoo announced that it was replacing Google as the default search engine in the next/latest version of Firefox: Firefox 34. That position is … [Read more...]
Yahoo Set To Launch Their Answer To You Tube
AdAge did an article on the launch of the Yahoo answer to You Tube. One of the selling points to publishers seems to be a revenue split higher than what Google offers You Tube publishers. Exclusivity will also not be required so content creators can be utilizing both sites. One point of contention centered on content ownership. In contracts presented to creators, Yahoo stipulated that Yahoo would … [Read more...]