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June 20, 2008 9:46 AM PDT

Daily Debrief: Making the contrarian case for Yahoo

by Charles Cooper

More trouble for the SS Yahoo. The latest exec to bail: Delicious founder Joshua Schachter, Meanwhile, a big reorg is said to be on the way. All the while, Yahoo shares continue to get slammed. But even before the Schachter news, Yahoo had suffered through the resignations of several high-profile execs. What's behind the rush for the exits? Is there a common theme or is it just happenstance?

Danny Sullivan at SearchEngineland has an interesting take and offers up this delish morsel:

How did Yahoo become such a loser company in anyone's mind other than the idiotic investors who usually don't seem to know what they've bought. Let's have a little reality check about that big fat failure Yahoo supposedly is.

So is there also a contrarian case to be made against the naysayers? More than you might think, at first blush. For more, check out my interview with CNET News.com Editor in Chief Dan Farber.

Charles Cooper has covered technology and business for more than 25 years. Before joining CNET News, he worked at the Associated Press, Computer & Software News, Computer Shopper, PC Week, and ZDNet. E-mail Charlie.
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by Tony McCune June 24, 2008 7:14 AM PDT
Yahoo is going to die. All you have to do is try to do business with them to know. Here's my sad story. http://tmccune.blogspot.com/2008/06/why-yahoo-cant-sell-search.html
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Charles Cooper has covered technology and business for more than 25 years. A graduate of Queens College and Columbia University, Cooper received the Excellence in Journalism award from the Northern California branch of the Society for Professional Journalists for column writing.

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