http://www.timbrocklehurst.com Regular updates with advice and help on various areas of Internet Marketing Fri, 04 Jul 2008 10:16:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Competition is a good thing. We all know that. And now, as Microsoft goes on the hunt for corporate partners to help break up Yahoo!, Yahoo! gets scrutinized in a monopoly investigation for holding hands with Google. As your comments to my previous posts testify, we all want to see competition ... http://www.timbrocklehurst.com/whatsnew/us-justice-investigate-yahoo-and-google In a letter to shareholders, Yahoo!'s Roy Bostock (Chairman) and Jerry Yang (CEO) have explained that the Microsoft offer will benefit Microsoft more than it will Yahoo!, and that Carl Icahn's proposed new board won't add value to the company. Like a wounded animal, Yahoo is hoping to find its escape ... http://www.timbrocklehurst.com/whatsnew/icahn-wont-add-value-to-yahoo The recent exodus of senior Yahoo! staff has given rise to an interesting blogging exchange. With so many leaving at such a time, we are bound to wonder whether its because they've been poached by Microsoft, or Google, or perhaps a secret start-up which Microsoft OR Google can buy later... ... http://www.timbrocklehurst.com/whatsnew/icahn-cant This year will see an important milestone in the history of advertising. For the first time, online ad revenues in the UK will be more than what is spent on TV. Surprisingly, this statistic is yet to be reached in the USA, where TV ad spend will be around $72.56 billion ... http://www.timbrocklehurst.com/whatsnew/internet-advertising-earns-more-than-tv 10 or 20 years from now, we will remember this year as the year in which the world tipped towards digital innovations over and beyond their traditional oil-fed counterparts. The papers today are filled with doom and gloom about the impending economic crisis, and the apparently endless oil price increases. As I ... http://www.timbrocklehurst.com/whatsnew/is-the-internet-our-solution-to-the-oil-crisis Latest news in the saga for dominance of Yahoo!: Carl Icahn has announced the nominees for his board of Yahoo!: Mark Cuban - Sold Broadcast.com to Yahoo! in 1999 for $8.1 billion in stock. John Chapple - Former CEO of Nextel Partners, with a telecommunications investment fund. Lucian Bebchuk - Harvard Law professor and ... http://www.timbrocklehurst.com/whatsnew/icahns-yahoo-board-announced As anticipated, Car Icahn has begun his proxy battle with Yahoo! In an open letter to Yahoo chairman, Roy Bostock, Icahn said the board had "acted irrationally and lost the faith of shareholders and Microsoft. It is obvious that Microsoft's bid of $33 per share is a superior alternative than Yahoo's ... http://www.timbrocklehurst.com/whatsnew/latest-news-on-icahn-and-yahoo Further to my post yesterday about the Yahoo! saga, I see that Bill Miller, who as portfolio manager at Legg Mason controls more than 6% of Yahoo!'s shares, welcomed Carl Icahn among the senior shareholders yesterday. "To the extent he can get the parties back to the table I'd be all ... http://www.timbrocklehurst.com/whatsnew/miller-backs-icahns-yahoo-proxy-battle If you're here seeking ways to get a few hundred more visitors to your web business, great. You'll find there are plenty of traffic, and list, building tips and techniques here. But spare a moment too, to put this Internet Industry into perspective. Something big is about to ... http://www.timbrocklehurst.com/whatsnew/carl-icahn-yahoo Here's an interesting case for anyone looking to build a new service online... Wayn, (Where Are You Now), is one of the UK hopefuls in the race for social networking dominance. Founded by Peter Ward in 2005, it targets young single people with freedom to travel. It is now gets 6.5 Million visitors ... http://www.timbrocklehurst.com/whatsnew/is-wayncom-really-working