Blabrmouth.com Weekend Update

Yahoo Shareholders: Suspend Disbelief!

So that’s it. I am giving up. I have had enough. I refuse to write about Yahoo anymore…after this post. The summer saga wrapped up yesterday with the annual shareholders meeting and apparently no one gives an ef that the company is being run into the ground.

Russian Grain Exports - Animal Farm Lives

Looks like our friends across the pond…no not those friends, our comrades in Moscow are at it again. Russia is going to nationalize grain exports. This announcement is the latest in a series of moves that appear to be a rush to Russia’s former self.

Greenspan: US on Brink of Recssion…Duh!

Do you remember the old Bugs Bunny cartoon where he was surrounded by dogs and they did the “dogs pile on the rabbit” thing? That has to be what Ben Bernanke after his predecessor came out with some pretty strong words today.

Note to Google: Go Private Before It’s Too Late!

Eric Schmidt has done a great job steering Google, Inc. over the years but one day he will step down as the senior Googler, and someone else will take over. Who knows who it will be, but I bet they will wish one thing; that Google never went public.

Ted “Internet Series of Tubes” Stevens Busted!

Ted Stevens, long time Senator from Alaska and internet guru, was indicted yesterday by a federal grand jury on charges of hiding hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts. Senator Stevens who is 84, was charged on seven counts of making

Lawmakers agree: No Longer Safe to Poison Kids

While cruising the news wires I stumble upon this beauty; Lawmakers agree to ban dangerous chemicals in toys. Then I say to myself; so up until now, it has been o.k. to poison kids? And I vote for these effers?

The Way of the Dinosaur: Blockbuster Digital Kiosks

It’s 2001 and there are twenty people standing in line at Blockbuster trying to get their hands on that year’s best picture; Gladiator. Now forget that Gladiator is best seen on the big screen and assume that the majority of people

Welcome to Dubai Mr. Trump

Looks like the Donald has found himself a partner to build the Trump International Hotel & Tower in Dubai on the Palm Jumeirah. In a star studded gala launching the sale of the exclusive residences in June.

British Firm Rolls Out 80 mpg Green Car!

CHICAGO, July 28 — The British Midlands Development
Corporation announced the launch of a new eco-friendly car, whose combination of reduced weight and excellent dynamics dramatically improves mileage and emissions from conventional fuels.

Chrysler To Stop Leasing Their Own Cars?

A guy walks into a Chrysler dealership, says I want to lease a car, the salesman says, “sorry, we don’t lease cars.” The guy says, no really, where do I go to lease a new Chrysler? The salesman says how about your bank?

Cuil To Roll Out New Search Engine - Old Hats, New Search Engine

Cuil (pronounced COOL) provides organized and relevant results based on Web page content analysis. The search engine goes beyond today’s search techniques of link analysis and traffic ranking to analyze the context of each page and the concepts behind each query.

Note to Google: Go Private Before It’s Too Late!

Eric Schmidt has done a great job steering Google, Inc. over the years but one day he will step down as the senior Googler, and someone else will take over. Who knows who it will be, but I bet they will wish one thing; that Google never went public.

There is no doubt Google has been on a meteoric ride almost since inception, but there have been some chinks in the armor. Most recently Google announced fantastic earnings in the midst of an economic meltdown in the U.S. and the share price got trounced.

Point is it’s not going to get any better. As Google continues to grow and expand their product offerings, earnings demands will continue to increase until that fateful quarter when they don’t hit their numbers and then the world will end. Well, not end but you get the idea.

Google makes tons of cash through its ad network which is constantly expanding through new product expansion. Problem is, once you miss your numbers a few times the street will start to question your business plan. Should you be giving Docs away for free? Should you be paying people so much in your AdSense network? Should you be subsidizing a nationwide wireless network and cell phone service? All things that no one cares about when you’re making billions, but will surely be in the cross hairs when you come up short.

But I have a solution…

Go private. That’s right, buy up all those outstanding shares and take yourself private. You don’t need the cash anymore and you have unlocked the value you promised all of your early employees and investors, so do what will be good for the business not this quarter or next, but twenty quarters from now. I bet Starbucks and UAL and half of the financial sector wished they were private.