Posts on February 9th, 2008

2008-02-09

Sure Do Miss My Yahoo Stock Right Now

After hoping and waiting and praying for something to kickstart Yahoo’s stock, I dumped mine at a slight loss at the end of the year. Damn my accountant.

After the Microsoft offer shot the stock up based on the 61% premium is was going to pay, Yahoo is set to rebuff the offer on the basis of it undervaluing the company.

Two schools of thought. 1) The board of Yahoo greatly overestimates its potential and shareholders are in for more pain or 2) Jerry Yang and the board are right, and shareholders will…

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New Media Terms to End WGA Strike

Courtesy of Ian Schafer, via PaidContent (or is it the other way around?), here are the tentative terms to be voted on by the WGA that would put an end to the strike, and bring new TV programming (and web!) back to our screens.

Highlights include:

— Download Rentals: 1.2% of distributor’s gross receipts.
— Download Sales (Electronic Sell-Through): 0.36% of distributor’s gross receipts for the first 100,000 downloads of a television program and the first 50,000 downloads of a feature. After that, residuals are paid at 0.7% of distributor’s gross receipts for television programs…

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