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NYT on Terry Semel of Yahoo!

Posted by Zonk on from the another-big-thinker dept.

prostoalex writes "With the recent CEO smackdown and Steve Jobs profiled by BusinessWeek, The New York Times talks about yet another high-tech CEO - Terry Semel of Yahoo! An outsider to the industry, Terry Semel currently leads the global company with the broadest reach. NYT looks into Yahoo!'s most valuable assets - technology produced by its employees, and covers many Yahoo! products, some of which, like Yahoo! Search, launched 2 years ago, trail only Google in the amount of users."

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  1. Exclamation Point! by OctoberSky · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The smartest thing Yahoo! ever did was add that Eclamation Point to their name. No matter what the story, be it good, bad, neutral, even boring that little bugger makes them stand out.

    I always read headlines and stories and forget that they have it attached in their copyrights. I was all giddy to read a story about a CEO, not because I am a business major or a fan of Yahoo! in general, but because that little mark (!) envokes so much emotion!
    You can't just go around throwing exlamation points at every crappy sentance, but Yahoo! makes every crappy story about them stand out!

  2. .mac by ronanbear · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Interesting to see that Yahoo! got so much right by focusing on what they were good at and having a good grasp of the way the internet works.

    Apples .mac has about 1 mil users paying $99 each representing about $100 mil in revenue.

    Yahoo! advertise but don't charge (mostly) and they pull in $5.2 billion in revenue.

    Paid subscribers will always be a much smaller proportion of the market than free service users.

    --
    the more they over-think the plumbing the easier it is to stop up the pipe