$99 Is A Great Price Point

If you can make and receive phone calls over this, this replaces the smartphone. No? And you can. No? If it has a speaker and a microphone. If you have a Google Voice number.

Google and Asus rumored to be working on $99 Nexus Tablet

Could you be able to score a $99 Google Nexus tablet for Christmas this year? ..... both new tabs would hit the market by the end of the year in an effort to defend against the anticipated iPad Mini.

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The Onion, Seriously

And you thought you could get away by not taking The Onion seriously.

Iran's News Agency Reruns The Onion as Real News

Eric Schmidt: Gangnam Style

Source: TechCrunch

Marissa Mayer's Gameplan

Marissa Mayer is not Steve Jobs, but I think she is very promising.

The words mobile and personalization capture it for me. Mobile is obvious. Personalization means Big Data.

Vague is good at this point. Gives her more wiggle room.

Executive Change at Yahoo Suggests Thirst for Acquisitions

With 700 million users each month, Yahoo remains one of the most visited sites on the Web, but it has been ceding its share of the online display ad market to rivals like Facebook and Google. ..... Yahoo made its name in search but lost that market to Google and then proceeded to miss the boat on every big Internet trend since. It was too focused on reinventing itself as a multimedia company to notice people were migrating to social networks and mobile devices as gateways for information and entertainment. Yahoo’s home page remains cluttered and sorely lacking a brand of its own.

Mayer to Yahoos at Not-So-Radical Confab: Personalization, Mobile, Rule of 100 Million and — Most of All — the Four C’s!

Very broad, as it turned out, and full of corporate bromides ...... Her goals: To grow users and usage, as well as advertisers and talent, using personalization. ..... Mayer needs to probably paint a much more specific plan for investors to get excited about.

Here Is The Plan Marissa Mayer Just Announced To Yahoo Employees

Yahoo will work very hard on personalization and mobile. .... Yahoo will be strong in mobile by 2015.

Marissa Mayer Allegedly Has 10 or 12 Different Priorities for Yahoo
Yahoo — rotten to core? I think so

vague plans at best .... “At Facebook and Google, they know your underwear size before you walk in the door. At Yahoo, it was clear they hadn’t even Googled me,” an entrepreneur who was in acquisition talks with Yahoo

A Sneak Peek At The New Yahoo Home Page Redesign?

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Engineering, Sales: Equally Important

Marissa Mayer's Blind Spot

Call it high tech and high touch. Engineering and sales are both equally important. And as CEO, even if you have primarily an engineering background, you can not ignore sales. Sales is what is making LinkedIn do well on Wall Street while Facebook is licking it.

Sales does seem to be Mayer's blind spot. Although she has had a great stage appearance since when she was at Google. That is sales.

But product is what has been Yahoo's weakness. And Mayer's focused on product. She will come around to it, I am sure.

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Mayer Should Give Search To Google, If Possible

Mayer Should Look Beyond Search

I am not privy to the contractual details between Microsoft and Yahoo, but I am sure there is wiggle room. And Mayer should exploit that and give Yahoo's search to Google. If my search experience is going to be as great at Yahoo.com as at Google.com, I am going to be more likely to end up at Yahoo.com. I mean, Google.com has nothing else going on, the Yahoo homepage is melodrama.

Google would love to bounce Bing from Yahoo

Microsoft and Yahoo’s Bing relationship has been rocky

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