Yahoo! Inc. - 2009 Case Notes Prepared by: Dr. Mernoush Banton Case Authors: Hamid Kazeroony A. Case Abstract Yahoo! Inc. (www.yahoo.com) is a comprehensive strategic management case that includes the company’s Calendar year-end December 31‚ 2008 financial statements‚ competitor information and more. The case time setting is the year 2009. Sufficient internal and external data are provided to enable students to evaluate current strategies and recommend a three-year strategic plan for
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C1. Alibaba.com 1. Alibaba.com was an early entrant into the B2B portal market in China. In about 100 words‚ explain how this might have created a lock-in effect‚ especially given the types of businesses he site attracts. Alibaba.com does translation as well as listings for small to mid-sized businesses who want to do business. In so doing there is a lot of time and effort put into this business venture by these businesses. Once they are established and have spent the money to get there they
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Engine Boolean Default Proximity Truncation Case Fields Limits Stop Sorting Google -‚ OR and Phrase No‚ but stemming word in phrase No intitle inurl‚ inurl‚ link‚ site more Language‚ file‚ type‚ date domain Varies‚ + searches Relevance‚ Site Yahoo! And or and Phrase No No intitle‚ url site‚ inurl link‚ more Language‚ file‚ type‚ date domain Very few Relevance‚ Site Ask Jeeves/ Teoma -‚ OR and Phrase No No intitle‚ inurl Language‚ site‚ date Yes‚ + searches Relevance‚ metasites MSN Search
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fraud is common in almost all industries and the same is true for the IT industry. Google Inc. is no exception to this type of operating risk‚ especially because of how much Google Inc. is worth. Yahoo Finance displayed the net worth of Google Inc. after the second quarter of 2013 to be $55.80B (Yahoo Inc.‚ 2013‚ Financial Highlights‚ para. 4). With profit so high‚ there is always a risk that employees could defraud the company for their own personal benefit. Another potential operating risk
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Google and Facebook – will be difficult‚ there’s enough room to carve out a profitable niche. AOL / Yahoo would own roughly 8.3% of digital spend in the US‚ which equates to $5.6 billion in revenue. Even if we account for the natural decline in Yahoo’s market share (especially from publishers
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Comparison of Search Engines: Altavista‚ Yahoo‚ and Excite Internet Exploration Project: Search Engine Analysis Introduction The use of search engines on the Internet is a very significant aspect towards attaining information ranging from research purposes‚ like stock quotes‚ to daily use such as the weather in your hometown. The ability to find information on these engines all depend on experience‚ knowledge of certain search techniques‚ and remembering the strengths and advantages of
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engines began to emerge in an attempt to index Internet web pages. The early search engines were essentially a database of filenames. Yahoo! was created in 1994‚ becoming incorporated in March 1995. Yahoo! was different from other search engines in that it provided a description of the page along with the URL. Furthermore‚ search results were ordered in a hierarchy. Yahoo! became popular very quickly‚ attracting a number of investors. In 1996‚ Larry Page and Sergey Brin started work on a search program
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management of the Alibaba YAHOO China has failed. And even Alibaba needs to spend money to support YAHOO China (Womack‚ B 2014). At present‚ the team YAHOO China team has been changed to do Alibaba public interest projects. Before YAHOO’s business strategy is relatively the flexible. They jointed venture‚ asked the local manager to manage the company.But this is still not able to bring the results of the flexible what YAHOO want is more obvious in the Alibaba period. YAHOO made the Alibaba to manage
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a market economy as it provides companies with access to capital and investors with a slice of ownership in the company and the potential of gains based on the company’s future performance. The three companies I invested in my stock project were Yahoo‚ Oracle‚ and Vanguard 500. At the end of the project‚ I found out that I had made a 5% return. I was very positive about my results and I believed that I could invest in the market in the real world. The stock market can be looked as a money-maker
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on the page‚ which lead to easy and fast searches that Yahoo could not imitate. Google uses over 500 million different variables and two billion terms to generate a list of best-matching search results. The results were generated in seconds wherein many internet users found Google’s search results more relevant than the results generated by competing search engines. There are four major search engines along with Google‚ and they are Yahoo (which is considered one of Google’s biggest competitors)
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