Is Semel the Right Guy

Is Semel the Right Guy for Yahoo?: Business 2.0 posits the question. “Yahoo is uniquely positioned to be the entertainment industry’s prime online partner. It has no studio affiliations like AOL, no technology-control agendas like Microsoft, and in Semel, a CEO more wired into Hollywood than almost anyone alive. But, while Semel has been able to strike ad deals with the major studios, he hasn’t landed a single significant deal for content that might attract hordes of paying customers.”

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