Yahoo stepping up search for a suitor?

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 24px;"></span><br /> <div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 12px; font: normal normal normal 13px/19px Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 640px; padding-bottom: 0.6em; padding-left: 0.6em; padding-right: 0.6em; padding-top: 0.6em;"> <div mce_style="text-align: center;" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px; text-align: center;"> <img alt="Yahoo stepping up search for a suitor?" class="aligncenter" height="212" mce_src="http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/3667/yahoo47075.jpg" src="http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/3667/yahoo47075.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; clear: both; color: #444444; display: block; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 12px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; margin-top: 0px; max-width: 640px;" width="282" /></div> <div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px;"> Yahoo looks to be preparing itself for potential buyers, with the internet giant apparently instructing Goldman Sachs and Allen & Co to give out financial information.</div> <div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px;"> Citing sources close to Yahoo, Reuters suggests that the company is 'ready to put itself on the block'.</div> <div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px;"> It's been a troubled time for Yahoo since turning its back on a massive buyout offer from Microsoft.</div> <h4 style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"> Attractive proposition</h4> <div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px;"> Despite the company's waning influence, it remains an attractive proposition for many, and it could well find itself a new owner if the price is right.</div> <div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px;"> The likes of Alibaba founder Jack Ma has openly expressed his interest, and it is seems likely that Microsoft would be wary of waiting in the wings whilst rivals are preparing to swoop.</div> <div style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, 'Bitstream Charter', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.5; margin-bottom: 24px;"> It remains to be seen who finally finds the best deal for Yahoo, or parts of Yahoo, but it is unlikely to be a price anywhere near the $44.6 billion offered back in 2008.</div> </div> </div>

Yahoo stepping up search for a suitor?

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iPad holiday sales estimates are all over the place

<img align="right" alt="iPad" border="0" hspace="8" src="http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/6876/ipadsmall12938029924337.jpg" vspace="8" />There is little doubt that Apple was intent on selling a lot of iPads this holiday season. The Cupertino company widened its retail distribution channels by making the iPad available at wireless carriers like Verizon and AT&T and big box retailers like Wal-Mart, Best Buy and Target. Seemingly everywhere you went, there was an iPad for sale. The big question that will be officially answered in Apple's Q1 financial statement is whether this increased retail footprint lead to increased sales of Apple's tablet device. <br /> <br /> While we wait for the official numbers to be revealed, Fortune turned to analysts and asked them to estimate <a href="http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/12/30/how-big-was-apples-ipad-christmas/">Apple's holiday sales figures</a>. These iPad holiday figures were all over the place with some analysts, like Daniel Ernst of Hudson Square, predicting sales as low as 5 million and others like Bill Shope of Goldman Sachs, estimating as high as 7.54 million units sold. The average number predicted by analysts landed at 6.53 million which is higher than the 4.19 million sold in Q4 2010. This wide range may be the result of last quarter's faux pas. Analysts may be a bit gun shy at predicting high numbers for this holiday quarter as their <a href="http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/10/16/apple-analysts-frenzied-q4-round-up/">Q4 predictions</a> of 5-6 million overshot last quarter's numbers by 1-2 million. Interested parties will have to wait for Apple to confirm the final sales numbers when it releases its <a href="https://www.apple.com/investor/">Q1 2011 earnings report</a> on January 18, 2011.<br /> <br /> <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2010/12/31/ipad-holiday-sales-estimates-are-all-over-the-place/"></a> <br /> <h6></h6><a href="http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/12/30/how-big-was-apples-ipad-christmas">Source</a>

iPad holiday sales estimates are all over the place

There is little doubt that Apple was intent on selling a lot of iPads this holiday season. The Cupertino company widened its retail distribu...

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