Yahoo

Internet is for data. Aside from emailing people, the whole purpose of using the Internet is to sift through data and find the piece of data you want: the lowest price, the funniest video, the best movie. So a service provider, the more…

Today's daily commentary is going to be on technology. Over the past few years, I have been writing here at Credit Writedowns that we are in the midst of a massive platform shift in technology toward a mobile-centric world. As Michael…

When I worked at Yahoo! ten years ago during the age of Terry Semel, Yahoo! was being turned into a media company. I always saw this strategic move as a mistake - the strategic error that allowed Google to usurp Yahoo!'s position in search…

I spoke to Paul Waldie and Brian Milner of the Globe & Mail on BNN's headline on Monday. The big story was JPMorgan Chase and the London Whale trades. JPMorgan Chase's CEO Jamie Dimon, as the leading lobbyists for the hands-off…

Here is an interesting video from the pre-IPO social media space. TechCrunch writer Alexia Tsotsis talks to StumbleUpon fonder Garrett Camp about its latest funding round in which it raised $17 million from August Capital and Accel Partners…

I am always interested in stories about Yahoo! since I worked there during its Internet hey day. Unfortunately, the place is falling apart. The latest I have heard is of a 5% staff cut, combined with employee buyouts and the sunsetting of…