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The following post on global strategy is by Thunderbird students Daniela Bernini, Tobias Bertram, Thomas Dornis, Nofil Fawad, Asif Shaw, Ron Teagarden and Dan VanDusen
“Yahoo has been here for fifteen years. We are the Internet. Unfortunately, we sit in a paradigm that values the new shiny penny,” Carol Bartz CEO of Yahoo!
Yahoo, once the leader in internet services, is struggling to implement a growth strategy to keep up with competitors such as Google and Facebook. Yahoo used to be the portal for Internet users, but over the last 10 years Yahoo’s market dominance has been severely dampened by new entrants. Yahoo announced a reduction in force of about 600 employees this month, or 4 percent of its workforce, the third such action since 2008. Read the full article in Thunderbird Student Projects, a blog on the Thunderbird Knowledge Network.
February 11th, 2011 at 6:39 am
Finding a place in the Web 2.0 era is quite hard above all when Yahoo! uses Microsoft Bing algo to serve its search results. They should come up with more original solutions to fight back Google (which I presonally dislike more and more because of its Internet Monopoly) such as…inventing a new algo and make their home page lighter and more professional