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Google 's Display Advertising Division

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This report provides a Strategic Brief focusing on Yahoo! 's display advertising division. The report also shows positive sign for future growth of Yahoo, though it has given rise to a lot of internal rivalry between the industry 's big players to mention few are such as Google, Microsoft and Facebook, as all of them offer products perceived by the consumers as homogeneous. Price competition has augmented, and has effectively lowered the Yahoo’s margins. Furthermore, the threat of low cost alternatives such as classified advertisement sites and social media sites have increased, even though few of them have the range of products as Yahoo!, they however retain a high number of users, social media in particular. Hence this…show more content…
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