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Wedbush is out with its report today on Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO), maintaining Underperform. In a note to clients, Wedbush writes, "While the engaging experience Yahoo! created for users on its homepage and related sites should positively impact display advertising revenue, the uncertain improvement...

Benchmark is out with its report today on Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO), maintaining Hold. In a note to clients, Benchmark writes, "Yahoo's analyst day yesterday was uneventful with no incremental disclosure on its Asian assets. Operational discussions were largely repetitive with past years. Financial...

Global Equities Research is reiterating its Overweight rating and $18 price target on shares of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO). This report follows expectations that Yahoo! will replace its current Geo-Platform (which is mainly Navteq) with Google's (NASDAQ: GOOG) Geo-Platform. “Navteq has been relatively...

It wasn't long ago that Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz noted on an earnings conference call that she would have some news for investors regarding the Asian assets that the company had long held on its balance sheet. Management gave the impression that a monetization of these assets, which...

Forget about the mail offerings from Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO), Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and Google (NASDAQ: GOOG). Now you can have your very own @SmartAss address. SmartAss is a new search engine that, according to KillerStartups, was designed to “provide users with a more engaging and livelier...

How about 30 million unique users and 400 million page views in one day? Business Insider reports that Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) achieved just that on what was dubbed Royal Wedding Friday. Yahoo!'s video traffic soared as well, breaking the previous record by 21%. Yahoo! intends to maintain its...

According to Oppenheimer, Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) reported 1Q11 results ahead of expectations last night, while 2Q EBIT guidance was slightly below the Street. Oppenheimer reported that the company did not provide any update on its discussions with Softbank regarding the company's stake in Yahoo...

Jefferies is commenting on the Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Bing's (NASDAQ: MSFT) market share gain during the month of March. “Google gained about 29 bps to 65.7% in March vs. 65.4% in February while Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) lost 38bps to 15.7%,” Jefferies writes. “Bing took some M/M share during...

Benchmark has raised the price target on Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) from $16 to $18 and maintains its Hold rating.

Piper Jaffray is out with its report today on Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) maintaining Overweight. In a note to clients, Piper Jaffray writes, "On a daily basis, we check the display ads on Yahoo!'s home page to determine if ads are higher CPM guaranteed placements (sold by Yahoo!'s sales team) or...

Shares of MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) are currently trading at $43.97, down 4.69% from $46.04 at yesterday's close. Thus far, the trading range for MET has been from a high of $44.77 to a low of $43.74 today. The average price target analysts have for this stock is $54.53, according to Yahoo! (NASDAQ...

Everyone's heard of search engine optimization (SEO). But outside of a few key professionals, very few people understand how important it is to website development. “SEO is essentially the practice of making your website pages perform better in search engine results so that you draw clicks and...

We knew it was only a matter of time before traditional brokerages began to lose ground to the online space. But Michael Raneri, CEO of Zecco, an online, social media-oriented broker, believes that may have already happened. “I think any financial services firm has some kind of Web or technology...