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Yahoo's Earnings Drop Despite New Ad System

Posted Apr 18, 07 8:33 AM CDT in Business Technology 

(Newser) – Yahoo's new online advertising system failed to break the company's earnings slump, with the search-engine pioneer reporting an 11% drop in first-quarter profits. Yahoo faces increased competition for graphic display advertising that represents a third of revenue, and the company is no longer doing ad brokering for Microsoft, which bolstered revenues last year.

Yahoo had warned that profits on the new ad system, dubbed Project Panama, wouldn't kick in until the second quarter, but shareholders had been hoping the company would beat predictions. Yahoo's stock dropped 8% in after-hours trading, though it is up slightly this morning.

Source Wall Street Journal

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