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Does Anyone Want Yahoo? Anyone? Bueller?	Nine months after Yahoo first rejected a takeover bid from Microsoft, the Sunnyvale, Calif., Web search and advertising concern still is looking for a deal to solve its troubles. Who wants to buy Yahoo? Bueller? Bueller? Ballmer? OK, perhaps we should rephrase that: everyone else is looking for a deal to solve Yahoo’s troubles. And with third-quarter earnings on the way, Yahoo faces the prospect of another earnings conference call packed with dissatisfied analysts and investors whose p...	October 08, 2008
Major Techs Hitting 52-Week Lows (AAPL, CSCO, EBAY, EMC, GOOG, RIMM, JAVA, YHOO)	This morning we put out an alert at 24/7 Wall St. showing how many new stocks were hitting 52-week lows. What was shocking was how many major and key technology or Internet names were on the list. You can see the full list of lows here, but here are some of those technology stocks hitting those lows: Apple (AAPL) fell to $91.11 Cisco (CSCO) fell to $20.10 eBay (EBAY) is down 7% at $17.61 EMC (EMC) sold down to $11.03 Google (GOOG) dropped to $366.58 Research in Motion (RIMM) down almost 8% ...	October 06, 2008
Yahoo Rolls Out APEX	Yahoo (YHOO) is rolling out its APEX system at the annual Advertising week conference which opened Sep 22. APEX stands for Advertiser Publisher Exchange. It allows advertisers to target demographics more accurately. So if you are looking for a 33 year old yummy mummy with one child, decent common law life partner with executed co-hab agreement, who actually does not like Hagen-Daz ice cream but trades stocks on the internet this is the system for you.The problem with the advertising business is ...	September 24, 2008
Do We Really Want Microsoft to Take Over Yahoo	The above is a spoof of what the Yahoo home page might look like if Microsoft took over Yahoo. Can you see where to log into Yahoo mail? Can you see where to do a web search?It may sound heresy to say this, especially since I own Yahoo (YHOO) at a loss, but maybe it is just as well that the company didn't get taken over by Microsoft (MSFT), which I also own. Have you looked at the Vista operating system? No wonder so many companies are unwilling to upgrade. Or even Office 2007. Have you upgraded...	September 22, 2008
Value Investor's Rejoice: "It is Dead"	A recent article said, "More than a few cynics have proclaimed value investing to be dead. Its plight hasn't been this dire since the height of the technology bubble." That bubble also lead to a near decade of outsized return for value investors. Remember that tech bubble? It was the one before the recent housing bubble? Remember? Berkshire's (BRK.a) Warren Buffett was mocked and called "out of touch"?Yahoo (YHOO) traded at 144 times earnings? There were scores of $100 stocks that actually had N...	September 02, 2008
Carl Icahn's Icahn Capital Boosts Stake in MOT, Cuts TWC, Shows EMIS Stake	Carl Icahn's Icahn Capital hedge fund released its 13F for the quarter ended June 30, 2008. Below are some notable moves:* Lifted his Motorola Inc. (NYSE: MOT) stake from 115,649,600 shares to 144,119,843 shares * Showed a new small 86,430 share stake in Emisphere Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: EMIS).* Lowered his stake in Time Warner Cable Inc. (NYSE: TWC) from 4,711,128 shares to 1,842,834 shares. * Got rid of his 129,715 share Perry Ellis (Nasdaq: PERY) stake.Icahn also showed a 55,029,056 share...	August 15, 2008
Yahoo spent $36 million fending off Microsoft	Filed under: Deals, Bad news, Microsoft (MSFT), Yahoo! (YHOO)As if the getting-older-by-the-minute Yahoo Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) didn't need another mark against it, the internet pioneer and stubborn company recently provided information on the costs it incurred in fending off a successful Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) bid this summer. The final tab: $36 million.Much of this tab was with advisory and law firms that helped the company deal with Microsoft along with a proxy battle by Carl Icahn...	August 15, 2008
Deep Market Thoughts…Go Golf…I Am!	There are certain periods of the year where you just need to go out and enjoy life and walk away from the screens. Now is one of them. You have been and will continue to be churned. Sure, we have had a few great trades (FXP and SMN) the last month and new long entries on this blog (JNJ, CCC, EURX, YHOO, QCOM, IBB, WU, WERN etc) are doing ok if not great, but we are headed into a very interesting fourth quarter and you need to be fresh and flush with cash. Global indices have been crashing, ...	August 15, 2008
Yahoo Rounds Out Its Board With Icahn’s Henchmen	With the appointment of Frank Biondi, Jr. and John Chapple to Yahoo’s board of directors today, the last two slots on the board are now filled. Biondi, the former CEO of Viacom, and Chapple, the former CEO of Nextel, were both on Carl Icahn’s original alternate slate when he was still trying to replace the entire board. As part of his compromise with Yahoo, Icahn backed down from his proxy battle in return for three seats on the board. After Icahn took his board seat following Yah...	August 14, 2008
Goldman Resumes MSFT Coverage With Buy Rating; Looks Like Yahoo Talks Really Are Dead	Goldman Sachs analyst Sarah Friar this morning resumed coverage of Microsoft (MSFT) with a Buy rating and a $34 price target. Goldman has long been bullish on Microsoft, going back to the long tenure of former analyst Rick Sherlund’s years covering the company at the firm. But Friar lately had a “Not Rated” designation on the stock. That reflected the fact that Goldman - which years ago took Microsoft public - acted as an adviser to Yahoo (YHOO) in its discussions about a poten...	August 13, 2008

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