Comments on: YaSoft

By: EricSimpsonjr

EricSimpsonjr — Mon, 07 May 2007 12:27:00 +0000

I am a shareholder in FAST.
The company sold its internet business to Overture in 2003. Someone remember alltheweb.com ? FAST FTF search ?
FAST bought Altavista's enterprice search, and Overture bought Altavista's web business, plus Overture.
FAST is traded on the Oslo Stock Exchange, and the ticker is FAST.

It's nice to be back in the internet business (with AdMomentum) and FAST has more nice internet projects running.
I'n a couple of months, they officially opens Ezmo(easy to find the webadress). Ezmo is Betatesting nowadays. Ezmo will be a place to share music legally. The site takes a copy of your media library and makes your songs aviable to play and share with 10 other Ezmo users. Accessable on all units with access to the internet. (Mobile phones etc..)

By: Nuno Leitao

Nuno Leitao — Sun, 06 May 2007 20:13:30 +0000

Abram, no Yahoo! did not acquire FAST.

By: Abram Shapiro

Abram Shapiro — Fri, 04 May 2007 23:40:02 +0000

Didn't Yahoo already acquire FAST? I think Overture bought both FAST Search & Transfer and Altavista prior to being bought by Yahoo. So Yahoo owns FAST, Microsoft will need to buy elsewhere?

By: Joseph Krügersten

Joseph Krügersten — Fri, 04 May 2007 18:32:01 +0000

I believe that Microsoft would be doing a huge mistake by acquiring Yahoo. It would make much more sense if they acquired a smaller company like FAST Search & Transfer and used its technology to create as much trouble for Google as possible. FAST’s AdMomentum could be a helpful tool if they want to hurt Google’s key revenue source.

By: Arjun Kapur

Arjun Kapur — Fri, 04 May 2007 17:34:38 +0000

The first time this was obvious was when AdCenter was in Beta more then a year ago. There was no point building a milti-million dollar platform without any traffic to back it up! Microsoft has needed Yahoo ever since.

By: Michael Martinez

Michael Martinez — Fri, 04 May 2007 16:23:02 +0000

Cute name, but “Microhoo” may be more apt. A merger between these two companies would, as far as search is concerned, probably shrink their combined market share even more.