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• Dan Loeb Writes (Funny) Letter to Jerry Yang 
  Value Investing  | Sep 15,'11
  [LETTERHEAD OF THIRD POINT LLC] September 14, 2011 Mr. Jerry Yang Yahoo! 701 First Avenue Sunnyvale, CA  94089 Dear Mr. Yang:   Thank you for taking the time to speak with us by telephone on Monday.  We are only sorry that we were not able to finish our conversation as a result of Mr. Bostock's abrupt unilateral …
• Delicious Might Be Coming Back Soon 
  Daily Blog Tips  | Sep 14,'11
  A couple of years ago Delicious was one of the most popular social bookmarking sites around. Many Internet users loved it, and bloggers and webmasters always aimed to get featured on its homepage, as it would deliver a lot of traffic and backlinks. I got on the front page a couple of times, and it resulted in thousands of extra visitors, and anywhere from a dozen up to one hundred new
• Microsoft, AOL, and Yahoo to Cooperate on Display Ad Sales 
  ClickZ Network  | Sep 14,'11
  Yahoo, AOL, and Microsoft have formed an alliance to cooperate on display ad sales, ClickZ has confirmed. Under the arrangement, which was formalized in the last week, each company's sales force will have the ability to dip into its rivals' unsold inventory - selling ads on each other's sites. If implemented, it should help the companies fill advertiser demand and reduce their
• Analytics Valley: Big Data, Data Scientists and SAS Programmers 
  Smart Data Collective  | Sep 14,'11
  Tom Davenport reported an observation that Silicon Valley is becoming more analytical since companies in the Valley such as Google, Facebook, eBay, LinkedIn all have strong presence in analytics. Besides such dominant companies, I'd also like to add Yahoo to the list, though Yahoo is no longer at its peak. Yahoo is the largest sponsor and contributor of Hadoop , an open source
• Microsoft, Yahoo, AOL to sell one another's ads 
  Corporate security blog  | Sep 14,'11
  Microsoft, Yahoo, and AOL are teaming up to sell one another's online ads. Hoping to grab more of the ad dollars now spent at Google and on online advertising networks, the three companies will start selling ad inventory on one another's sites, according to AllThingsD's Peter Kafka . Specifically, the three will sell one another's "Class 2 display" ad inventory, or graphic ads that
• AOL, Microsoft And Yahoo Seeking To Form Ad Alliance 
  paidcontent.org  | Sep 14,'11
  Given the way Facebook and Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) have been taking an ever larger share of display ad spending, it looks as if AOL ( NYSE: AOL ), Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT ) and Yahoo ( NSDQ: YHOO ) are looking for safety in numbers with a plan that calls for the trio to sell ad inventory on each other's sites, AllThingsD's Peter Kafka reports . The three have not had any comment on the

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