weblog #13 A Tough Year for Yahoo

According to A Tough Year for Yahoo, 2008 was a tough year for investors and many employees.

Yahoo! has been competing with Google, Microsoft, Apple, and some other big companies. Most of them provide almost the same services to consumers so it has always been challenging to have any innovation. The news mentioned that Yahoo! is now working on their e-mail service. They want it to be more open and social. However, all of the consumers, including me, know that the most serious problem of Yahoo! mail service is that it is the most easily junk-mail-receiving e-mail box. Many people already turned to use Google or hotmail a long time ago. As a result, it is going to be hard for Yahoo! to pull back users even after the new version mail service is available.

The other thing that the article mentioned is the Internet -connected TV. The market is still very small now. How the company is going to compete will cable TV is an issue worth discussing, because everyone lives at home has their own TV. College students that live outside use computers. Most of us already have known how to watch TV on computers, which is a soft ware from China. If Yahoo! can provide such service better than what we are using now, it might be a good remedy of the bad condition they are facing now.