Elite SEM acquires CPC Strategy with an eye toward growing its Amazon practice
The e-commerce-focused agency has more than 125 employees and a proprietary retail search advertising optimization platform.
Topic: Private equity
Report: Google exploring sale of Zagat reviews
Might there be an Act 3 for the venerable restaurant guide?
As Buyers Circle Yahoo, Will It Be Carved Up?
Now that it’s for sale, there are several reports indicating multiple buyers are interested in some or all of Yahoo. Among the names mentioned are Silver Lake Partners, a private equity firm, Yahoo search partner and former suitor Microsoft, News Corp. and Jack Ma of China’s Alibaba, in which Yahoo owns a multi-billion dollar stake. […]
Yahoo Laying Off About 600 Employees
This week’s rumors are true: Yahoo began laying off several hundred employees today. Reuters is reporting that most of the cuts affect about 600 employees, or 4% of Yahoo’s workforce. The layoffs, as expected, will come from Yahoo’s product division. This week’s rumor mill had suggested the layoffs would hit about 650 people, or 5% […]
Ask.com To Focus On Q&A Search, End Web Crawling
Talk about getting back to your roots. Ask.com, which originally used humans to find answers to questions, is going further back to its origins by abandoning its web crawling technology. The Need, Or Not, To Crawl Search engines like Google and Bing try to have answers to anything someone might search for by “crawling” the […]
How Would An AOL-Yahoo Merger Affect Search?
There are rumors flying that AOL and private equity firms may be trying to buy Yahoo in a complex transaction that would involve a likely sale of Yahoo’s stake in Alibaba. Matt wrote up the item last night. Bloomberg has more this morning suggesting that, as with Microsoft a couple of years ago, Yahoo is […]
Rumor Mill Heats Up Over Yahoo-AOL Deal
Rumors are circulating tonight that Yahoo might be a candidate to be bought, possibly by some combination of AOL and various private-equity firms. The Wall Street Journal report is citing “people familiar with the matter” who describe this as one possible scenario: Silver Lake Partners and Blackstone Group LP are among the firms that have […]
Yahoo CEO Bartz Announces Exec. Departures, Speculation About Bartz’s & Yahoo’s Future Begins
Yahoo has seen a long list of talented people leave the company during the organizational turmoil of the past few years. However it appeared the company was stabilizing and potentially even back on track toward growth and forward momentum. However AllThingsD earlier reported and today confirmed (before official confirmation from CEO Carol Bartz) that three […]
SMX Advanced 2010 Slide Video: Raising Capital During & After The Great Recession
Raising Capital During & After The Great Recession Presentations from SMX Advanced Seattle, June 2010 The stock market is up and the banking crisis appears over, but that doesn’t mean that funding from sources like VC, private equity and IPOs is flowing. Intrigued about or considering raising capital? This session is for you. [flv:https://searchengineland.com/video_assets/adv10/ppt/RaisingCapitalDuringRecession.flv 364 […]
Yahoo Q2 Revs: $1.57B, Down 13 Percent But Profit Up 8 Percent
On the debut earnings call of new Yahoo CFO Tim Morse, Yahoo announced second quarter revenues of $1.57 billion. Compared with the same period a year ago, earnings were down 13 percent. The company is predicting an even more modest third quarter: “in the range of $1,450 million to $1,550 million.” Search revenues were $359 […]
Search Biz: AOL Spin Off, Yahoo Layoffs, Google Losses, IAC Spoons And Pines For AOL
The biggest Search Biz news of the week is about AOL’s forthcoming spin off and related personnel moves. Time Warner yesterday announced quarterly revenues and a whopping $16 billion loss (not the largest in the company’s history). For its part, AOL’s ad revenues fell roughly 20 percent to $867 million from $1.13 billion the previous […]
Searcharazzi: Fathom SEO Acquisition Details
The industry has been buzzing for awhile about private equity buyers that just might be interested in picking up some search firms. Here are the details on the acquisition of Fathom SEO by PromiseONE, a private equity buyer. Exclusive advisor Agile Equity gives these details * Fathom SEO sold to PromiseONE, a private equity buyer. […]