Yahoo Buys Associated Content

There are plenty of other things Yahoo gets from buying Associated Content, not the least of which is a big fat swath of Internet real estate that ranks obscenely high in Google search results and Bing search results. A great deal of the traffic generated from these high ranking searches is monetized via, you guessed it, Google AdSense which pays content publishers based upon ads placed by Google on those websites. Yahoo, can now switch out those Google Ads and replace them with their own Yahoo Ads.

Yahoo Bows to Greenmail

Ok, technically, it isn’t greenmail, but the actions of Carl Icahn in regards to Yahoo! have been very reminiscent of the old strategy.  Basically, Icahn used his fortune to buy up a large amount of Yahoo stock and then complained loudly in the media about the Yahoo board, specifically about …

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