[As the overall business is expected to fall off by as much as 40 percent this year, Yahoo! expects business service revenue to rise as much as 46 percent. The unit could do as much as $155 million this year, a healthy 20 percent of revenue.] Business-to-business is a huge opportunity for them, ... Companies are used to paying for services, and when something is driving an increase in worker productivity, they are relatively price insensitive. |
[If Jupiter goes under, it provides yet more proof that even in-the-know companies couldn't resist the trappings of new-economy excess.] It's a classic dotcom example, ... Jupiter's data allowed a lot of companies to go public, but it grew too quickly and cut back too late. |
Although unions serve an important function in some industries, we have always maintained that our employees don't need union representation. We believe all of our employees receive fair wage and superb benefits. |
Basically, we have signals out there that are subject to high winds. They'll swing back and forth, up and down. The heads will break off and the wires will come down. |
Business-to-business is a huge opportunity for them. Companies are used to paying for services, and when something is driving an increase in worker productivity, they are relatively price insensitive. |
Everything has to go your way. There has to be sometimes a little bit of luck, and sometimes the draw. There's a lot of factors, but we hope that we're in position to make a run and be in the top few. |
has made little progress in doing so. |
I don't think they're going to not talk to each other forever, ... What issues will be most important to them at that time, I don't know. But I do think that they will continue to have this tenuous balance of cooperating and competition in a variety of their businesses. |
I think the Street's probably a little surprised that Dick Parsons is going to be the CEO. Bob Pitman is very well respected, |
I think the Street's probably a little surprised that Dick Parsons is going to be the CEO. Bob Pitman is very well respected. But when you drill down, Dick really runs all their content operations. Content will become more important to AOL Time Warner going forward. |
I think we will likely get approval on Thursday and then approval by the FCC possibly by the end of the year, or possibly early next year, |
I think we will likely get approval on Thursday and then approval by the FCC possibly by the end of the year, or possibly early next year. |
I was just ecstatic. We've set a lot of goals throughout the years and this is one we've never attained in my 14 years of coaching, |
If it's not a recession it's certainly looking and smelling like one. |
In all of Internet history, I can't recall any deals that have been scuttled by the FTC, ... The FTC has only a of couple teeth left, but it's used them recently. |