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Jay Bhatti Interviewed By Media Post About Microsoft Kumo

by Jay BhattiMay 21, 2009 News About Jay Bhatti

Microsoft ‘Kumo’ Hot On Paid, Multimedia, Semantic Search
by Laurie Sullivan, Thursday, May 21, 2009, 5:58 PM     –     PDF | Link
As Microsoft readies the release of Kumo, some industry insiders wonder if new features in the Redmond, Wash. company’s long-anticipated search engine will come a little too late. Yahoo Thursday unveiled the Smart Ads platform [...]

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Jay Bhatti in E-Commerce Times about Yahoo’s New CEO

by Jay BhattiApril 22, 2009 News About Jay Bhatti

Jay Bhatti was quoted by the E-Commerce Times about his thoughts on the Yahoo quarterly earnings call.
Yahoo (Nasdaq: YHOO) announced Wednesday that first-quarter earnings fell by nearly 80 percent and that it will cut 675 jobs as CEO Carol Bartz struggles to revive the ailing Internet company.
The news was not generally jeered by investors, however. [...]

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Spock.com Taps Text Analytics

by Jay BhattiDecember 16, 2008 Spock News

Seth Grimes of Intelligent Enterprise interviews Spock’s Andrew Borthwick.
Spock is a people-search engine, currently in beta release. The company uses “a combination of search-engine technologies and user edits to aggregate the world’s people information and make it searchable.” Think Google meets LinkedIn: Web search with accuracy boosted by allowing individuals to claim, augment, and correct [...]

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YouTube’s Days are Numbered

by Jay BhattiDecember 3, 2008 Spock Research

I am going to make a prediction. Hulu will be the winner in web video. Not YouTube. Now, many will think I am nuts for saying this. Especially since YouTube serves over 5 billion videos a month in the USA alone. But, I believe YouTube will go the way of Netscape. A once powerful asset [...]

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MediaBistro Takes a look at Spock.com for PR

by Jay BhattiDecember 2, 2008 Spock Research

Jason Chupick of MediaBistro takes a look at Spock.com
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Why the Outrage over Google’s Prop 8 Ads is Wrong

by Jay BhattiNovember 18, 2008 Spock Research

For the people of California, Arizona, Arkansas and Florida, November 4th was marked by both the election of Barack Obama, and by ballet measures banning gay marriage. In California, the controversial Prop 8 vote was particularly close and the end result came as a surprise to many. Exit polls have since revealed that it was [...]

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The Future of Online Advertising is Performance

by Jay BhattiNovember 7, 2008 Spock Research

For most of the past 10 years, online advertising has been dictated by the publisher or ad network (the website that is displaying the ad). Advertisers were willing to pay significant money and while receiving little in return with regards to performance, conversions, or measurable results. The Internet was the wild west of 21st century [...]

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Why is Yahoo not buying back its stock?

by Jay BhattiOctober 31, 2008 Spock Research

In a recent Fortune article, Yi-Wyn Yen suggested that Yahoo’s management should announce a major buyback the way Microsoft and Hewlett-Packard did. Yi-Wyn Yen quoted Argues Canaccord Adams equity analyst Colin Gillis as saying “If Yahoo [executives] really thought the stock was worth $40, then send a signal of confidence and show us that you [...]

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BNET Interviews Jay Bhatti

by Jay BhattiOctober 23, 2008 News About Jay Bhatti

Q&A with Spock.com’s Jay Bhatti
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By Erik Sherman | Oct 28, 2008

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Spock.com is a relatively new search engine focusing on information about people. Co-founder Jay Bhatti was formerly a Microsoftproduct managers in Windows server marketing and then in consumer services. He left in 2006 to help start Spock. We spoke with him about the company and its current [...]

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Yahoo hires consultants to advise them on layoffs. Did they make the right choice?

by Jay BhattiOctober 22, 2008 Spock Research

I know a thing or two about consultants. I used to be one for nearly 5 years in the fast paced world of high tech consulting on Wall Street. We would advise banks on everything from what database to buy, to how best to setup global technology infrastructure and headcount.
When I heard that Yahoo hired [...]

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