Yahoo Q1 2007 net income falls $142 million! |
Hard not putting the Yahoo exclamation point after the title in the headline after another disappointing financial quarter with net income dropping well over $100 million in the first quarter. The tag team of Semel (CEO) and Decker (CFO) with mostly Decker fielding questions over the results tried to deflect the news.
Semel announced a partnership of sorts with PayPal:
Yahoo is introducing a feature using eBay Inc.’s PayPal online payment system, in which PayPal shopping cart icons will appear in Yahoo’s sponsored search results alongside sites that accept eBay’s PayPal Express Checkout feature.
I looked this program over and sighed. It’s not for all business search results with an easy opt-in as I’d hoped but only for sponsored results. Whoopie. Want to help people using your search, Yahoo? Make it something useful to them too, not primarily businesses who pay to be in the column to the right of the search results.
IP Democracy shares a table of financial results showing the last five quarters. Over this time the Revenue ex-TAC per Average Unique User Per Month has fallen from 0.95 to 0.88. So if I’m interpreting this statistic correctly, they’re making around two pennies per day from their registered users. Over the same time period they’ve shown an increase in registered users which might help explain why they wanted to see Flickr members imported (including premium members).
I’m not selling my Yahoo stock because I believe they’ll be bought by somebody before things get really awful. I hope it’s not Google, but that wouldn’t surprise me.
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[…] With the way deals are happening in the tech space and Yahoo! having five consecutive quarters of unimpressive results, the talk about who is going to buy them continues. From a Yahoo shareholder perspective absolutely I’d like to see them acquired but I don’t want to see them going to Google. Let’s face it, Google will not be able to resist being evil if they buy Yahoo. I don’t care how good you or I think they’ve been up until now, domination in and of itself is evil. They will own too many pieces on the chess board. Another 10% of the search market would make their fortress nearly impenetrable. […]
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