Hot Internet Companies For 2015

Hot Internet Companies For 2015: Yahoo! Inc.(YHOO)

Yahoo! Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a digital media company that delivers personalized digital content and experiences through various devices worldwide. It offers online properties and services to users; and a range of marketing services to businesses. The company?s communications and communities offerings include Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, Flickr, and Connected TV, which provide a range of communication and social services to users and small businesses enabling users to organize into groups and share knowledge, common interests, and photos. Its search products comprise Yahoo! Search and Yahoo! Local, available free to users to navigate the Internet and discover content. The company?s marketplaces offerings and services include Yahoo! Shopping, Yahoo! Travel, Yahoo! Real Estate, Yahoo! Autos, and Yahoo! Small Business, which allow users to research specific topics, products, services, or areas of interest by review i ng and exchanging information, obtaining contact details, or considering offers from providers of goods, services, or parties with similar interests. Its media offerings comprise Yahoo! Homepage, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Sports, Yahoo! Finance, My Yahoo!, Yahoo! Toolbar, Yahoo! Entertainment & Lifestyles, Yahoo! Contributor Network, and Yahoo! Pulse, which are designed to engage users with online content and services on the Web. The company also offers marketing services, such as display and search advertising, listing-based services, and commerce-based transactions to advertisers. In addition, it provides software and platform offerings for third-party developers, advertisers, and publishers, such as Yahoo! Developer Network, Yahoo! Open Strategy, Yahoo! Application Platform, Yahoo! Updates, Yahoo! Query Language, and Yahoo! Search BOSS. The company has strategic alliances with Nokia and ABC News, ! Inc. Yahoo! Inc. was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, Californi a.

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• [By Faisal Humayun]

  On November 11, 2014, Yahoo! (YHOO) announced that it will be acquiring BrightRoll for approximately $640 million in cash. This article discusses why the acquisition of BrightRoll is positive for Yahoo! in the long term.

• [By WWW.DAILYFINANCE.COM]

  Shutterstock This past weekend TechCrunch broke the story that Google (GOOG) was adding Google Bookmarks, which gives you a new tool to organize and store content from around the web. I've been using Pocket for over a year to do that -- and I love it. In fact, I am so happy with it that I recently upgraded to its premium paid version. And despite that, I have no doubt that within a short time, I'll have dumped it for Google Bookmarks. Even though I was initially reluctant to get on the Google bandwagon, it has slowly become a ubiquitous part of my everyday life, paralleling the way in which the tech giant's products have taken over the Internet. Lessons from the Real and Virtual Worlds As a young man, I swore I'd never get married, have kids, or switch to web-based email, and yet somehow, all three of these came to pass. The marriage thing I'm convinced had to do with some sort of Haitian voodoo root my wife must have been mixing in my food. The proof is there for all to see in the zombified look on my face in our wedding album. The kids? Well, I'm 75 percent sure I know how I ended up with my two beautiful tax deductions. But not unlike the events that once led me to wake up in a Ramada Inn covered in shaving cream, I'm a little hazy about how I ended up on Gmail. On Cloud Nine with Gmail Prior to Gmail, webmail was terrible. Beginning with the Prodigy network back in the early '90s, I had tried all sorts of email services and even the best of them were clunky and not very user friendly. So Outlook became my email program of choice, and I remember thinking that ther! e was no ! way Google's new cloud product could ever make me leave Microsoft (MSFT) But less than one month after trying Gmail, I was hooked. And that's the proper term, because Gmail was the "gateway software" that got me addicted to all sorts of Google products. Chrome took the place of Internet Explorer. Then I began using Google Calendar, followed closely by Drive and Docs. Yahoo (YHOO)

• [By Jayson Derrick]

  Analysts at JPMorgan assumed coverage of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) with an Overweight rating and $55 price target. Shares hit new 52-week highs of $46.52 before closing the day at $46.05, up 0.92 percent.

• [By WWW.DAILYFINANCE.COM]

  AP file/Eric RisbergMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella Microsoft (MSFT) sales soared 25 percent in the last quarter, largely from cloud computing. But sales of the Xbox, tablets, and Nokia smartphones also contributed to the strong performance, which handily beat Wall Street expectations as the company maintained profit margins. Microsoft's business of selling cloud services to other businesses -- in which companies store their data run their major software on remote Microsoft servers -- doubled, and is now the primary focus of the company, according to the new CEO Satya Nadella. This earnings release follows the earnings announcements from the following peers of Microsoft: Adobe Systems (ADBE), Oracle Corporation (ORCL), International Business Machines (IBM), Google (GOOG), Apple (AAPL), Nokia (NOK) and Yahoo! (YHOO). Microsoft stood out from peers IBM and SAP who recently reported negative earnings results after strong warnings about operating profits while they move into cloud-related businesses, which generally yields lower margins than technology companies are used to. Highlights Summary numbers: Revenues of $23.201 billion, Net Earnings of $4.540 billion and Earnings per Share (EPS) of $0.54. Revenue rose, helped by outstanding performance in the cloud segment and the phone business it bought from Nokia, beating analysts' estimate! s. Gross ! margins narrowed to 70.5 percent from 77.5 percent from same period last year. At the same time, Microsoft reported gross margin improvements in its cloud business, despite the cost of building and operating new data centers. Performance focus was more on revenue than the bottom-line: increase of revenue of 25.3 percent vs. decline in earnings of -13.4 percent from same period last year. Ability to declare a higher earnings number? Rise in operating cash flow of 1.8 percent versus same period last year--better than change in earnings. The table below shows the preliminary results and recent trends for key metrics such as

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