Yahoo Keeps Rolling Along, Launches Tech Ticker
It’s good to see that Yahoo isn’t simply sitting still under the weight of all the Microsoft acquisition talk – following last week’s Y! Live launch, we now have their new tech investing web show Tech Ticker.
The official introduction post promises the show will be “both quirky and opinionated”, which you can probably tell from their opening paragraph which lays out the tech world as a sector that’s “both kick-ass and kick-your-ass – a place for big dreams, big bets and big disappointments, too. Double, halve or get out of the way.”
Led by Sarah Lacy and Aaron Task, the show will also feature Henry Blodget and Andy Kessler – as well as a whole slew of other contributers from around the web, which is good to hear.
They also promise not to show any favoritism or conflict of interest towards their parent Yahoo! – which is definitely important to note given the current state of things. In fact, tomorrow should be a very interesting day to launch such a site seeing as Yahoo will be delivering their official response of “No” back to Microsoft in response to their $44.6 billion dollar takeover proposal.
According to NewTeeVee, Tech Ticker will release 4 to 8 videos each day – each video being 2-3 minutes in length. These videos will range from discussions, to mini-documentaries, to interviews. It will be on-demand as opposed to live.
This show would definitely seem to be something that is right up my alley, I’m looking forward to seeing how it turns out. They certainly have the tagline to reel me in “I Love the Smell of Profits in the Morning”.
[UPDATE]: Here’s the Yodel Anecdotal post on the launch.