“Press reports indicate that Apple is in discussions to broaden its partnership with Yahoo in providing more content on iOS,” Sterne, Agee & Leach analyst Shaw Wu writes for Barron’s. “Yahoo already provides data for stocks and weather apps and parts of Apple’s Siri function. We believe this makes sense for both Apple and Yahoo as they battle a common competitor in Google.”
“We believe progress is worth watching as industry data have shown that iOS is by far the best platform for mobile monetization. This could become an issue for Google as its ties with Apple are cut,” Wu writes. “Yahoo has somewhat become the ‘Switzerland’ of Internet companies and an ideal partner for Apple as it isn’t in the mobile-devices business and doesn’t own a mobile device OS, popular Web browser, or social network.”
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Thanks MDN for the Marissa Mayer on the red ball photo!! It brighten up my day 🙂
Looks like she is sitting on an a red Apple. 😉
… sitting on a red Apple.
12-hour day.
Who wouldn’t want to get lucky with Marissa Mayer??
That photo must be shopped – nobody actually wears their bondage shoes to work.
It depends what their job is 😉
Is this still true that Microsoft gets about $15.00USD per every Android device sold?
http://www.informationweek.com/software/windows8/microsoft-inks-more-android-licensing-de/240062679
Ye she is good looking. And that is a COMPLIMENT and I’m not going to apologize for it.
She’s a brilliant business mind, smart enough to understand the importance of promoting herself. She has read Dale Carnegie, you can be sure of that. Just look at how she effortlessly won over the MDN faithful, only hours after resigning from arch fiend Google. I’d never blame you for appreciating her message, KarlV.
It’s too bad the rest of the Google brass are so nerdily dismissive of the idea of personal presentation, as if it were an old-fashioned idea that no longer made any difference.
Founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin do the self-absorbed visionary act well, but that doesn’t turn heads in quite the same way.
As for Board Chairman Eric Schmidt, whose favorite word is “creepy,” he looks like a toad in a suit.
You mean Schmidt *isn’t* a toad in a suit? 😉
Just so Yahoo doesn’t turn around and stab Apple in the back like Microsoft and Google has done!
I would be happy if Yahoo changed their name when Apple buys them out and incorporates it in iOS along with iAd.
Ummm, your continued objection to the Yahoo name is getting tiresome. In the tech world weird names are the norm. Get over it already.
Gee, I mentioned my objection on another Yahoo story and now this one. If you find two mentions of a point tiresome on two separate incidents then you have my sympathy for your condition. All the best to you in your treatments.
Wu is full of crap: “The reason is likely because iOS accounts for 42% of mobile traffic versus 31% for Android and 51% share in revenue versus 30% for Android…”
Those numbers are figments of his imagination. iOS accounts for more like 70% of mobile traffic and revenue.
I think Yahoo could help out Apple in some critical areas. Obviously search. And they have a financial, sports, entertainment expertise that could serve as a newspaper for Apple. It could work very nicely. They don’t compete in anything so…………buy some YHOO, it still has room to go up.