This really is desperation and shows a total lack of vision. The search results from Live.com are absolutley shocking and until they get this sorted they will always be a bit player in the search engine market.
“I and many of your shareholders strongly believe that a combination between Yahoo and Microsoft would form a dynamic company and more importantly would be a force strong enough to compete with Google on the internet,” said Mr Icahn. BBC News
A force strong enough to compete? What force do you need? The internet is open to everyone and there are no barriers to entry. What force do you need? And to top it all Google supports the growth of Microsoft and Yahoo! because it doesn’t it discriminate against these companies in it’s search results.
A force strong enough to compete, what is this guy talking about? A case in point, Facebook, a household name and only 2 years old.
A force strong enough to compete with Google. Carl Icahn hasn’t got the first clue about the internet. Just so you know.
is without doubt Practical Performance Car in the UK. This is coming from someone that rates the following magazines, EVO Magazine (UK), Banzai (UK), Turbo & High Tec Performance (USA), Autosport (UK), Motorsport (UK), Car and Car Conversions (UK, when it was in existance). And from someone who doesn’t rate Max Power (UK), Japanese Performance (UK), Top Gear (UK), Import Tuner (USA), Super Street (USA).
Its still quite a new magazine so I just hope they can keep up the relentless pace of enthralling articles that they write at the moment. I think it will be difficult to continue to write so many insightful & amusing articles every month I just hope the automotive industry has enough areas to keep them going.
With Practical Performance Car its not just the interesting subjects they cover, it’s not just how well written the articles are, it’s not just how they actually get their hands dirty on interesting projects, it’s not just that the articles are amusing and at times make you laugh out loud, it’s the clear enthusiasm of the writers in cars that really pulls everything together into a complete package
Just so you know!
What exactly has Microsoft got to gain from purchasing Yahoo! The only thing I can see is econoimies of scale from combining the activities they carry out in parallel at the moment. Games, News, Chat etc etc. But this is not the problem for either Yahoo! or Microsoft. They do chat, games, news etc etc very well.
The problem they have is sub standard search technology. A meger between Yahoo! and Microsoft is not going to solve their problem. This merger makes very little sense. Sure they will be more efficient but the problem is they don’t generate anywhere near the revenues they want.
The worry for Yahoo! is that they don’t have a plan. Well, at least that I can see. Has anyone from Yahoo! identified their problems and how their going to solve them? I mean with a Microsoft bidding for them, now is surely the time to tell people what their future plans are and show how a Microsft takeover is such a bad idea. But I haven’t heard anything.
If anything the ideal partnership would be for Google to take a controlling stake in Yahoo! and let the companies run seperately. This would be a utopian situation for Google. Their problem is that people only spend a fraction of a time on their site compared with visitors to Yahoo! Google’s problem is they dont want to comprimise the users search experience. Run the two as is and show Google adwords on Yahoo!. Lets be honest here. Google adwords is decades ahead of Yahoo! in paid advertising both in terms of philosophy and execution. This would be a real cost saver for Yahoo! as they would no longer have to spend money on maintaing and developing their paid advetising programme.
There is talk about employers being forced to make peoples slaries openly available in an attempt to eliminate pay disparity between the men and women. Bring it on I say, it can only be a good thing for employees, not only for a motivational point of view but also from a fairness point of view. Sure it might lead to people chopping and changing their jobs more often to get better pay but that can only be a good thing. It’s puts the power back into the hands of the workers and not in the hands of the shareholders. Middle management may complain but they will gain as much as everyone else.
Keeping employees pay secret from their colleagues is a classic divide and conquer stratergy to keep workers pay down and I mean blue collar and white collar workers.
Let’s make this infomation public knowledge (for employees of the same company) sure it might cause a bit of offense at first but people will soon learn to live with it or even better, find a better paid job.
Power to the people
So say some members of the police, along with call to banning pubs from encouraging bing drinking. I’m sorry but I thought Britiain was a free country where we could do as we wanted as long as it didn’t infringe on other peoples safety and liberties. OK so some people are idiots when drunk causing fights and generally being unsociable but why should the behaviour of a small minority effect the liberties of the many. The type of people calling for these changes have got to accept we don’t live in a perfect society and never will.
As for the youth drinking on the streets and causing being a menace, what else is there to do. I don’t recall the last time I saw any facilities provided by the council for these people. How about some hard surface basket ball courts and football pitches. It’s not going to sort out all the problems but it would defintely be a step in the right direction. Its not like the old days. The youth of today, like the rest of us are more demanding when it comes to their entertainment what with the development of the internet, games consoles and the spread of satelite TV bringing us pictures and possibilities from all over the world. Let’s meet the younger generation half way. They aren’t old enough to buy their own satelite TV or go to the pub so we have to give them something else and what’s wrong with encouraging sport? Maybe start opening up school sports facilities in the evenings?
