Capital World Smell Money in Those Yahoo!s @ SEARCH JOURNAL

Capital World Smell Money in Those Yahoo!s

Capital World Investors Has Doubled Its Position to 10.1%

Apr. 17, 2008 02:30 PM

Well, at least somebody in the Yahoo! spectacle is keeping their head.

Capital World Investors, Yahoo!’s biggest institutional investor, has doubled its position to 10.1% figuring there must be some money to be made out of the fact that Rupert has abandoned Jerry to team up with Steve to gang bang Jerry, who’s now sleeping with his worst enemy Eric, who – if the antitrust police catch them at it – can always claim he did it to help Steve out.

According to an SEC filing Thursday, Capital, a division of the Capital Group, increased its holdings from 5.2%.

Published Apr. 17, 2008 — Reads 2,398
Copyright © 2008 SYS-CON Media. All Rights Reserved.

About Maureen O'Gara
Maureen O'Gara is the Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected technology reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025.

LATEST SEO/SEM STORIES

Zoho Invites Google & Yahoo Users to Login

By Open Web Developer News Desk

Zoho announced that it is welcoming Google and Yahoo users with a unified login designed to encourage those users to try Zoho applications. Now, Google and Yahoo users who visit Zoho can simply log into Zoho using the usernames and passwords associated with their Google and Yahoo accou

Enterprise Web Security Added to Google Apps

By Maureen O'Gara

Google has taken its Postini investment and turned out Google Web Security for the Enterprise, which is supposed to protect against spyware, viruses and zero-hour threats in real-time whether the user is on the corporate network or working remotely like at a hotel or in an airport. If

Powerset Seeks to Change the Way Users Search and Consume Web Content

By Search News Desk

'Wikipedia is a great way for us to showcase Powerset's functionality while giving people a faster time to satisfaction,' said Barney Pell, co-founder and CTO of Powerset, as his company today unveiled a publicly available beta product that according to Pell reinvents how users search

Microsoft, Unisys, Yahoo and Vista

By Maureen O'Gara

Microsoft, which spent $6 billion on aQuantive and was chasing Yahoo for its ads before it came to a dead stop, has been supporting - as in helping write - legislation in New York and Connecticut that would regulate the data that companies like Yahoo and Google collect for targeted adv

Yahoo! How Like the Virgin Mary!

By Maureen O'Gara

So how does it feel to have witnessed one of technology's little miracles this week? I mean Yahoo's stock price successfully defying gravity. It's as close as any of us will ever get to an apparition of the Virgin Mary floating on a cloud without any visible means of support. Apparentl

Yahoo Pays the Piper

By Maureen O'Gara

Yahoo's stock dropped roughly 19%-20% this morning at the open, shaving $8.7 billion off its value, its first installment on the price of its independence from Microsoft. Yahoo, whose position improved a couple of percentage points in the first half-hour of trading, is being held up by