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Yahoo Turns 10; Free Ice Cream for America
indiejade writes "It was 10 years ago today that Yahoo was born in a trailer outside Stanford University. Joining the celebration is Baskin Robbins, which is serving up a free scoop of ice cream in honor of the day Yahoo began climbing the ranks from its humble beginning. Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo joined CEO Terry Semel to kick off the stock market opening bell this morning. The Birthday Boys claim that they are happy with the steady growth of their company, and expressed no regrets for their "once upon a time" decision to fund Google. "Competition is good," they said prior to the opening bell this morning."
Yahoo!'s 10th birthday is today. To celebrate, they're giving away... a scoop of ice cream, courtesy of Baskin Robbins.
Link: Baskin Robbins Yahoo! page (link will only work today)
I don't know about the rest of the country, but right now in Dallas it's 45 degrees.
Was this a promotion cooked up by Baskin Robbins to boost sales during a slow month? Does anyone else think this is weird?
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Here's what the splash page (linked above) says:
Yahoo! Turns 10 Today!
"You may find our celebratory tune hard to resist since it's our birthday, but you get the present. Today only, March 2, 2005, as a registered Yahpp! user, you can get one scoop (2.5 oz..) of your favorite Basikin-Robbins' ice cream in a cup or a cone on us. Simply sign in, download your coupon, then head out to the party.
Availabale at over 3,423 select Baskin-Robbins locations throughout the world!"
It is not our abilities that show what we truly are... it is our choices.
here is the link to the coupon: http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/yahoo_birthday /
Yahoo used to pay Google for their searches. It used to be that by the searchbox on Yahoo had the splash "powered by Google(tm)"
If i remember right yahoo used inktomi, google as their search engine. Until recently yahoo and google results were the same and if you look carefully at the bottom of the page you would see "powered by google"./ 2165081
http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/article.php
For the fiscal year ended 12/31/04, revenues totaled $3.57 billion, up from $1.63 billion. Net income totaled $839.6 million, up from $237.9 million. Results reflect increased marketing services, fees and listings sales resulted from growth in Yahoo!'s organic sales and acquisitions and investment gains.
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/pr?s=YHOO is your friend.
Why bother getting the free scoop? Free crap is still crap...
My homemade ice cream kicks Baskin Robbins' ass any day....
Mango ice cream (you need an ice cream maker for this)
300 g. pureed flesh of honey mango
90 g. sugar
2 tbsp. lemon juice
1/2 dl cream, whipped until almost stiff
2 dl whole milk (lowfat is OK)
1 egg yolk
Mix all ingredients except cream together. Fold in cream, blend well. Chill mixture according to ice cream maker's instructions. This will take around 40 minutes.
People say I'm crazy, I got diamonds on the soles of my shoes...
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.03/yahoo.htm l
According to wired magazine, Yahoo's profit in the last fiscal year was $542 million as compared to Google's $223 million. So it's more than double the profit for Yahoo than Google on roughly 20% more revenue. Not bad. Click on the thunbnail in the left column with the magnifying glasses to see the pretty graphs.
here's a link on profits http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2005/01 /17/daily19.html
That done, profits don't always matter when calculating the value of a company. What usually matters is how much their assets are worth.
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Their current ice cream flavor list is here http://www.baskin-robbins.com/treats/flavor_list.s html.
Fine Print:
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Limit one coupon per customer, where supplies last, or for the first 300 coupons presented for redemption at each store.
FYI
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There is a fascinating interview of Filo and Yang dated 5/23/1995 that offers some interesting historical tidbits about the company. Here is the link: http://www.sun.com/950523/yahoostory.html
In that 1995 interview, the duo proudly claimed having 250,000 users. Today, that number is a "pathetic" 345 million.
For two geeks from Stanford, they've done well, wouldn't you agree?
Sun and Fun
That is a cool page, it is interesting to see how the Yahoo! homepage has evolved from the one you show until what it is today, I was curious(??) and went to The Archive of course, between months there is not much difference, but what about between each year!
The sad thing, is that the archive only have yahoo! pages from 1996...
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"Sorry, but they didn't tell us about it," the woman at the counter said when I presented my print-out. Everyone here, call ahead to see whether or not your BR is participating in this.
As for me, since Dunkin Donuts is the same company as BR, I'm taking my business to Krispy Kreme and Cold Stone Cremery instead.
"Anonymous Coward" is for whistleblowers, not unpopular opinions.
I forgot the reason, but Baskin Robbins offered free ice cream sometime last year. The line for ice cream went around the building. It's not worth the wait.
Their ownership started out as 2%, went down slightly due to some stock sales, but still over 1% I believe. This is stated in documents of both companies.
Here's the link so you don't have to put your name into the Yahoo/Baskin Robbins mailing list...
Get your anonymous coupon here.
Should print a coupon with the words "Yahoo Fan".