Derek Brown
Derek Brown
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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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It gives eBay a new resource to leverage in search marketing efforts.
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The online advertising market still seems to be struggling. It's difficult to look at that and see substantial near-term growth.
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We are in the midst of an inflection point for Yahoo -- and the online advertising industry in general -- that finally pushes Internet marketing into the mainstream and sets the stage for robust growth.
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The company is clearly operating in a really attractive market right now, but the valuation fully recognizes that,
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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.
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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 thought we hung in there pretty well. We played with them 25 or 27 minutes, but then we couldn't handle their speed.