Should Yahoo Buy the New York Times?
January 27, 2009 by
Filed under News
Eric Savitz (Barron’s) submits:
Carol Bartz, the new Yahoo (YHOO) CEO, is getting ready for her coming out party Tuesday: she hosts her first earnings call for the company following the release of Q1 results. The numbers are likely to be ugly, but that won’t be all that surprising. What the Street will really want to hear is some signs that she has begun developing a plan for what strategic direction Yahoo will take going forward.
In a research note late last week, Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster provided some eye-opening suggestions for what Yahoo ought to do next in a piece titled “An Open Letter To Carol Bartz.” His four-part plan: