Yahoo, which was once an Internet titan, the only ruler of the entire Web, after years of mismanagement and underperformance looks like the Sinking Ship with irreparable hole in its side.
In February 2008 Microsoft made $44.6 billion bid for Yahoo. Later Yahoo announced its board of directors’ letter rejecting Microsoft’s hostile bid for the company as “massively undervalued. Now Yahoo’s board wants to sell its core business for $10 billion, and experts say that this price is slightly higher than its current market price.
Yahoo is still one of the biggest technological patent holders having nearly 3000 patents and pending applications. It is obvious that patents are heritage of the former very successful technological giant. If Yahoo made 399 patent applications in 2007, it filed just 66 new applications in 2013. Yahoo will receive fewer and fewer new patents in the coming years.
Yahoo plans to sell patents most probably initiating new Patent War (similar to Oracle vs. Google).
I think any company which acquire this huge sinking ship will follow to the same destiny. This would be a classic case of two wrongs trying to make a right.
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Data Mining and Analytics can provide valuable insights and high growth potential to any data-driven business. According to survey performed by Bain & Company of more than 400 executives in diverse range of businesses and industries revealed that companies with better analytics capabilities were twice as likely to be in the top of financial performance in their industry, five times more likely to make decisions faster than their peers and three times more likely to execute decisions as planned.
Even if most of executives understand the opportunities provided to their businesses by Big Data, they still struggle with some common challenges:
- How to align Big Data benefits to specific sector?
- How to identify what kind of Data may provide best insights and improve decision making process?
- Which specific technologies and skills are needed to understand their Data?
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Legacy Data Access Problem
- IP/Geo Location
- Text/HTML Ratio
- Meta Tags Quality – title, description, keywords, robots
- Number of Links: outbound, inbound, backlinks
- Alexa Traffic Rank
- Google Page Ranking
- Age of Website