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From the contest thingy on the last post, these are the people that wanted links:
How do you feel about Google? Mauritius Indian Ocean
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Slovenian Designer’s Fortune Cookies with Attitudes
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and (updated) Occupied DNDs over at anty
Let’s say you’re gonna buy a company. Wouldn’t one of the ways you choose to buy a company be based on what it’s gonna earn next year? They have a stat for that; it’s called Forward P/E. It’s the Market Cap of a Stock divided by How much the company is expected to profit next year.
A higher number means a more expensive company when comparing Apple’s to Apples. (Everyone still with me?)
GOOG and YHOO are arguably in the same business. What’s not arguable who is in a better position in the Industry. One is an 800 lb Gorilla, the other is Yahoo.
So even after this whole YHOO - MSFT debacle, for some reason the market thinks that YHOO should trade at Forward P/E (1 yr): of 43.52 while GOOG trades at a Forward P/E (1 yr) of 24.04.
Apples to Apples (or Pears to Pears so some dipshits don’t think I’m talking about AAPL stock), Investors value YHOO 79% higher than GOOG.
So . . . for the Universe to get back into balance, YHOO has to go to .61 / share, GOOG has to go to 65 / share, or some combination of the two (like YHOO to .50 and GOOG to 3). Either that Jerry has to whip out that super secret sauce he’s been saving up to suddenly get Yahoo’s profits to start skyrocketing.
. . . it flows through wall street too. Some investors are still hoping or praying that MSFT is gonna up their offer and close the deal. They just can’t accept that this deal is deader than . . . umm . . . some really, really dead thing.
The other big reason the stock’s being propped up? Jerry Yang is putting his money where his balls are and is buying up 0 million of YHOO with his own wad.
It’s a Ballsy Move. Only time will tell if it’s a Brainy one too.
Yahoo Glue pages are a new idea for search results that I think may get some traction. Check out some searches on yahoo India:
http://in.search.yahoo.com/search?p=banana
http://in.search.yahoo.com/search?p=football
http://in.search.yahoo.com/search?p=obama
http://in.search.yahoo.com/search?p=microsoft
It doesn’t suck!
CNet is being bought by CBS for .8 Billion.
Carl Icahn is going to stage a proxy fight to fire the Yahoo board - the Wall street Journal describes his interesting option play. Wouldn’t it be funny if he got a whole new board and then Microsoft said “No, seriously, we are not going to buy your PoS company anymore.”
According to this, analysis has shown that the presence of Tech stories on Digg has halved every year for the past 3 years. So what will the percentage of tech stories in most popular be in March 2009 compared with March 2008? If the current rate of halving continues it will be around 9%.
And shoemoney is calcanizing the SEO community with his Definition of SEO and beating the SEO is gonna be dead soon drum. SEO will die soon after people stop wanting to rank higher than they deserve to in the search engines. Never is a long time, but . . .
Blogging has been lite nonexistent this past week because my mental energy has been sapped. I let myself get a little fat lately and have take the proper diet and exercise steps to get back into shape. While it is effective for fat loss to be at a 2000 calorie per day deficit, it sucks for trying to think. I’ve lost 9 lbs in the last 12 days, but I feel like that’s been about 9 lbs of brain matter.
