Derek Brown Quotes (31 Quotes)

I thought we hung in there for awhile and played well in stretches. On our level mainly it's not as quick, not as fast up and down the floor.

The company is focused on becoming the e-commerce hub -- the destination people come to buy just about everything.

I thought we hung in there pretty well. We played with them 25 or 27 minutes, but then we couldn't handle their speed.

Yahoo has been a fairly good indicator of how others in the Internet group perform, ... buy.

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.

The company is clearly operating in a really attractive market right now, but the valuation fully recognizes that,

I don't think that there's going to be an intimidation factor. They're a second seed. They aren't first seed and I think that makes a difference to us that they aren't one of the top four teams in the country.

The online advertising market still seems to be struggling. It's difficult to look at that and see substantial near-term growth.

When you strip out those acquisitions and new partnerships to really get a sense of what the company's core business is doing, it really struggled through the first half of the year.

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

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.

Just about any industry you can imagine is going to be impacted in some way,

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.

There is no longer a perception that eBay has few meaningful competitors.

Successful online merchants need to devote time to customer service, ... Companies need to realize customers do have fears and they need to address those fears head-on.

Investors are trying to assess whether management is being conservative in their guidance or if there are elements of the business which may not be performing as well as investors have anticipated.

Importantly, our comments are meant only to reflect near-term conditions, not long-term questions about the viability of online advertising.

The quarter was phenomenal. It was another in a long line of outstanding quarters by a company that really in almost every way is separated from its Internet peers.

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.

A rising tide should not necessarily lift all boats equally. The outlook shouldn't be the same for every search company.

Pretty much anytime I have time off, we come to the beach.

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.

A lot of locals eat lunch every day, ... Some eat three times and others eat five times a week.

It complements what Yahoo is attempting to build on the convergence media side pretty nicely.

There were some concerns about paid-search pricing, ... but we observed no obvious changes in advertiser behavior during the quarter and that seems to be borne out by Yahoo's results.

There was some early quarter seasonal softness that may have been interpreted as a fundamental change in the appetite for online advertising. But the question isn't how does pricing change week to week, but what is the broader demand over an extended period of time.

Other Internet companies are not likely to blow through their quarters the way they have in the past,

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.

I think that it was a very good quarter for Yahoo,

There's a greater level of comfort shopping online. Consumers are more used to the environment. They're more confident and aware of security issues.

I thought we hung in there for a while. The game we're used to is not as quick. It's not as fast up and down the floor. We played for about 25 minutes and then we just couldn't keep up anymore.