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acquisition of Yahoo was through hostile takeover or through outright purchase (Asay
2008; Pimental, 2008). According to Pimental (2008), Microsoft has more money than
most countries; the company has an excessive cash of over $19 billion. Despite
Microsoft huge excessive liquidity, the company was unable to meet its immediate
Microsoft was in trying to acquire Yahoo; the company had sought to use debt to
finance this transaction. Microsoft intended to integrate Yahoo into its company’s core
Without schism, this case study analysis will not be about Microsoft hodgepodge
through hostile takeover. What makes other technology companies envious of Yahoo
Economic, and Legal (PESTEL); are core to this analysis with some verisimilitude? For
instance, online advertisement expected to reach an epic proportion of over $80 $120
billion a year by 2010-2015 (Ackerson, 2010; Asay, 2008; Pimental. 2008). Facebook,
Google, Yahoo and Twitter, have now surpassed the predictable benchmark of $80
billion of online advertisement (Aluya, 2010). Yahoo innovative technology using TSHs,
SWOT, and PESTEL places the company at a sustainable competitive and comparable
advantage. Economically and strategically, Yahoo was positioned serendipitously to
maximizing profit through online advertisement. Not surprising therefore, that Microsoft
wanted to acquire Yahoo. This sanguine discussion starts with the background of
Yahoo and the analysis of the remarkable feat accomplished by the company will follow.
Background
In 1994, David Filo and Jerry Yang, doctoral students at Stanford University,
founded yahoo. Jerry and David started Yahoo as hobby while working on their doctoral
the use of TSH, the founders ascended to fragmenting informational materials into
categories. The reason why the founders decided to fragment or breakdown information
was due to the clustering, clogging and complexities and difficulties involved in finding
information within then popularized internet in the 1990s (Donegan, 2000). From initial
exotic to ubiquitous, the United States government in the early 1990s fully released the
internet for commercial use during this period. Finding information on the ever-
expanding World Wide Web was increasingly complex and difficult. Search processes
required tedious and time-consuming on the part of the end users. Exigencies of the
categories became too full, subcategories were developed, and more subcategories
followed. Aptly, the founder’s concept of creating more subcategories in the internet
cascaded into the conceptualized framework of what has become known as Yahoo.
Yahoo conceptualized from proposal to fruition using the creativity of this novel idea of
subcategories (Eisenhardt and Sull, 2001). Exquisitely using TSHs, SWOT, and
PESTEL, Yahoo became the First Prima Donna in this ideological eruption of
astounding numbers of subscribers on a daily basis with over 100 million visitors. Yahoo
systematically uses TSHs, SWOT and PESTEL to reposition the company strategically
into the followings (a) obtain exclusive content as a way of creating customer loyalty, (b)
with e-mail accounts, instant messaging, calendaring, and hosting services, and (c)
create additional revenue streams. Yahoo was regarded as one of the major viable
competitor in the digital era. Currently, Yahoo burgeoning sales and growth has
sales have exceeded the sales of Walt Disney Company (Eisenhardt and Sull, 2001).
Magnificently, Yahoo was a leading search engine site during the late 1990s. In
the late 1990s, according to Nielsen/Net Ratings, Yahoo trailed behind Google in the
United Kingdom, Australia, and Germany as the proverbial search engine of choice for
internet users. With TSH, subscribers and visitors now frequently use Yahoo search
instance, rather than use complex software based algorithmic search solutions that
were initially used by competitor Excite, Yahoo uses human web-surfers to read, assess
attracted lore venture capitalists. With accessible venture capital funding, Filo and Yang
were former board of directors and the chief executive officers. The founders
understanding their handicap and inexperience in managing an organization hired
experts to managed Yahoo. Unlike Facebook initial public offering, Yahoo stock
skyrocketed to high price level from the opening price. Yahoo current CEO is Marissa
Mayer who took over the helms of affair from former CEO Scott Thomas and iCEO
“Yahoo is a great company that is very, very strong in content for its users,
uses amazing technology to serve up what increasingly we think is going
to be the web of one. People come to us to figure out what’s going on in
the world…it’s a place where you can just get it together” (Nusca, 2010,
p.1).
business model through the use of TSH into a major internet portal.
Strauss, EL-Ansary and Frost (2003) defined a portal as a point of entry to the internet
that provides many services in addition to search capabilities. The internet business
Horizontal portals were referred as consumer portals, public portals or web portals that
were generic organizers for information. In contrast, vertical portals were referred as the
information for groups or for particular organizational specific interests (Spitzer, 2000).
stickiness is the capability of the internet portals to keep visitors at the site for as long as
possible and thus persuading them to return. Stickiness is also achievable through an
investment in branding.
With TSHs, SWOT, and PESTEL, Yahoo uses product bundling to maximize
profit (Shapiro and Varian, 1999). Yahoo basic informational materials were bundled
messaging and hosting services. With TSHs, SWOT, and PESTEL Yahoo provides
other services free, although the services bundled up in comparable services (Cooper
technological happenstances using real time data from large data sets (see the figure 1
strategic partnerships.
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Size available
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performance unification function
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reduce use-
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improved margins
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