One of Marissa Mayer's first priorities as Yahoo (YHOO) CEO will reportedly be to increase the...

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Stone Fox Capital Comments (4617)
 
The problem is very clear. You get a property like Yahoo! Finance and see how it isn't even integrated into twitter or facebook. No original content created by users is pushed to social media. The users on the message boards and such remain unknown and thereby of limited value. Heck, it could take a page from Seeking Alpha.
20 Jul 2012, 05:51 PM Reply Like

Whitehawk Comments (2964)
 
With the companies suing each other this might limit (have limited) "integration" potential...but there is also the issue that with more social media integration it achieves...not much. The problem with YHOO is that it is too ad revenue centric and not high value product/services revenue centric. Yes, it's a multimedia company, which most identify with, but what else can it be? Answering and executing that potential...
20 Jul 2012, 06:12 PM Reply Like

Whitehawk Comments (2964)
 
The coverage of MM/YHOO on BI has been fairly negative...one engineering employee commented that what the company needs is better leadership (what is HP's engineer ratio?)
20 Jul 2012, 06:05 PM Reply Like

warrenrial Comments (536)
 
She has her hands full fixing their mess.
20 Jul 2012, 06:11 PM Reply Like

Venerability Comments (3051)
 
The "way to go" at Yahoo is completely overhauling its security so that it is no longer the number one source of Malware transmission on the Internet.

And if Yahoo is not actually making money from allowing Botnets - some of them linked to Organized Crime - to "rent" out various message boards and groups of message boards, via advertising kickers, then it needs to do something about verifying poster accounts and banning those which cannot be verified.

If it IS making money from the above practice - i.e. if it is integrally involved in this illegal activity, not just turning the other cheek to it - prepare for one of the worst scandals in Internet history to break soon. Because after last week's massive Malware attack, which many knew in advance was going to happen, I believe worldwide police organizations are finally investigating Yahoo the way it should have been investigated decades ago.

If you are a Yahoo shareholder, you need to hope and pray that the company has merely been extraordinarily stupid, rather than extraordinarily corrupt.
21 Jul 2012, 07:46 AM Reply Like