Using London as a starting point and base from which to explore, we’ll first head West to the Cotswolds, then up to Strafford–upon-Avon and Warwick, and finally we take a short side-trip to Cambridge.
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So just thinking about what is important about customers. That in our world we have three groups that we consider our constituents. Now, only one is a paying customer. That’s the one in the middle. These are the advertisers who bring to you free internet services. But on the left are the users a...
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There were basically three phases of Yahoo! Phase I from like '95 to 2000 was get big fast. That’s where we went from zero to about 300 million users. And it was all about - we were very de-centralized. We pushed down decision-making all over the globe in order to get our brand out there and attr...
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Here’s another example that's both open and social. So our homepage, Yahoo!'s homepage, is the most valuable real estate on the web. This ad, this is a several hundred millions of revenue a year. People come to our homepage multiple times per day. If you compare it to any newspaper or any other ...
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It seems to me that one of the things that you’re probably all thinking about is going out and starting companies and creating really cool products and building businesses around that. And in fact that is how Yahoo! started with two of your very own, Jerry and David. And it worked really well bu...
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These are some of the challenges that we faced. We’re going to start with advertisers then I'm going to go to users and then developers and wrap it up. But one of the really important trends that has happened, I'll give you some slides that show examples of these in a minute, is what advertisers...
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Obviously the last two weeks have been very exciting at Yahoo! Can you give us sort of a little bit of backstory of the discussions and what’s going on? Well I don't know that I could tell you anything that's not in the paper because our company leaks like a sieve. As does Microsoft and everyone ...
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After we got the Microsoft offer, it was incumbent upon our board to look at alternatives. So one alternative is stand alone and generate the plan that we had talked with them and shared with them. Talked with them about three months earlier. Another alternative might be to have someone else mon...
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A teenage girl has been killed and 35 other people injured in a bus crash in Hong Kong. One passenger said the double-decker toppled over when it was making a turn at high speed. Nov 9, 2009 ... teenage girl has been killed and 35 other people injured in bus crash Hong Kong. One passenger said t...
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