...before they've made it, it has become impossible to order people about. This view is put forward by Carol Bartz, the new head of Yahoo, in The Economist's "The World in 2010". It sounds pacey and plausible and for a second I was lulled into thinking that perhaps...

What must Yahoo do? In the last year its founder chief executive...designed to demonstrate the potential of Yahoo's advertising business. Yet its shares have...they started May. The simple answer is that Yahoo must grow. Opportunities abound - for instance...

...court in Manhattan that is weighing whether to approve the settlement.Critics, including internet rivals Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo have objected to the exclusive rights that the search company would have to sell access to digital copies in its database of...

Barnes & Noble, the leading US book retailer, is to sell a wireless...to Amazon's dominance in the nascent e-reader market.The Barnes & Noble device, called the Nook, will be sold at the retailer's...revenue to partners.It was not immediately clear if or how Barnes & Noble's policies are more friendly to partners. The Nook...

Yahoo shares touch a six-week low on Thursday before turning around...executive in January, and who has since cut 5 per cent of Yahoo staff, declined to make revenue forecasts. The stock declined...operating profit margin from the current 6 per cent. He said that Yahoo could save more money by continuing to centralise the technology...

...search engine alliance between Microsoft and Yahoo.Their backing for the deal comes as regulators...tried to forge an alliance of its own with Yahoo, Mr Sorrell spoke out strongly against...would sue to block it."We believe that Yahoo! and Microsoft's proposal to combine their...

Increased sales of display advertising helped Yahoo make a $188m profit, triple that of its...com, and revenue fell less than expected.Yahoo executives said the company was stabilising...it has no plans for exits from the major Yahoo assets in China and Japan. Corporate headcount...

...Carl Icahn launched a proxy fight against Yahoo, the internet group. The veteran raider...hands of Microsoft?Strangely, yes. Many Yahoo shareholders were rightly infuriated at...team to guide a difficult turnround of Yahoo as an independent company. If elected...

...have survived the recession well, leaving Yahoo to prove that a general campaign including...audience of professional ad buyers that drive Yahoo's revenue."Advertisers follow consumers...and more engaged, users."Elisa Steele, Yahoo marketing head, told the Financial Times...

...groups over the past six months has deterred Yahoo from attempting to conquer this market...China would have been a natural target for Yahoo. The company has experimented there for...Google in particular appears to have chilled Yahoo's ambition.After struggling for years with...