June 5th, 2008
What comparison site did “On The Money” blogger Carmen Wong Ulrich recommend to help avoid hidden bank fees?
No thanks, Jason. Do you realize that I can just go to Bankrate.com or Interest.com and do a little comparison shopping from the comfort and convenience of my desk and get myself a whole new place to bank for all our accounts with little or no fees—surely not $22.98 a month!
Bankrate.com (RATE) scores well in the price momentum model, but poorly for earnings quality and return potential.
October 21st, 2006
“If you ain’t got Mojo Nixon then your store could use some fixin!” - The Dead Milkmen, Punk Rock Girl
Yahoo! (YHOO) has not been performing as well as Google (GOOG - Annual Report) recently, and Jim Cramer thinks the store could use some acquisition. So far in the last few names he has proposed Bankrate (RATE), Monster (MNST) and The Knot (KNOT). Basically it seems as though Cramer feels any publicly traded content company would do.
Yahoo! already knocks Google’s socks off when it comes to proprietary content. If they want to beat Google it seems unlikely that even more proprietary content will do the trick.
No, Yahoo’s opportunity to beat Google can come from building a better search mousetrap or coming up with something completely different - a product with real mojo.
Maybe the Milkmen were more on target than they ever imagined.
