Derek Brown
Derek Brown
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Yahoo! has been a fairly good indicator of how others in the Internet group perform, ... buy.
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I think it's real good to have a game like this. I tried to play my second team more than I usually do, because I want to get them acclimated to playoff (atmosphere), and I thought this was kind of a tournament game. Fred's kids played very hard and they did a good job. What they do is execute probably better than anybody in the league, and I wanted to get my kids used to coming across screens, because (the Hawks) set a lot of screens.
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I think that it was a very good quarter for Yahoo!,
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Look at the success of J. Crew or L.L. Bean, ... Catalog companies have to show their items with pictures. J. Crew is a good example of a company that's done a good job of replicating the feel of their catalog online.
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I don't know how good we are, or how poor our opponents were, so we're going to get a real good test Sunday. The players like each other and it translates onto the floor.
good
As a framework, it's about as good as it gets.
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Trust and safety is a huge division in the company. They have a number of safeguards in place, but it is a very diverse market place. The question, I think, is are they doing enough? Could they be doing more? Should they be doing more?
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We continue to view eBay as a core Internet holding. However, we are still struggling to find a meaningful near-term catalyst and believe that the company is entering a more mature phase of its growth cycle that could limit potential upside in future quarters.
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We're trying to get winners here, and Woodrow Wilson won it all last year. There are quite a few other prospects there that I will see. Camden is a tremendous source of talent. Once we get that pipeline solidified, I'll try to do some things in Baltimore, too.
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Much to everyone's surprise, eBay seems to have had a much better quarter across several crossover categories.
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But the sector itself is still a nascent, high-margin, rapidly growing industry. And the indications we've seen are that it hasn't changed much.
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She has a great work ethic and will definitely be a force to be reckoned with for a long time with that discipline and motivation.
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People were looking forward to her coming back. She's a very big part of our team, not just on the floor. She's one of the co-captains and she gets everybody going. Without her, it allowed all of our younger kids to get experience on the front line. So things started to come together after that.
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legitimate chance that Yahoo! could fall short (of estimates) in the (fourth) quarter.