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Seeking Alpha Spurned By Yahoo As Competition Emerges

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Mark Melin
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When the financial contributor web site Seeking Alpha parted ways with Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), on the surface everyone had a brave face. Behind the scenes the split, however, was not entirely amicable.

Seeking Alpha Spurned By Yahoo As Competition Emerges

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The questions beyond the obvious center on Yahoo.  Did the Seeking Alpha relationship exit signal a deeper move to get serious about content revenue generation? Is the content division saddled with a $6 million Katie Couric contract that, analysis shows,...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.