Tuesday, November 08, 2005

No Sure Bet At TiVo - Forbes.com

"NEW YORK - In a new-media world that changes as quickly as couch potatoes click through channels, Yahoo! may be the closest thing there is to a sure bet--enormous market share, plenty of cash and a brand that works throughout the world. You can't blame TiVo for trumpeting a tie-up Monday morning.

Take a closer look, though, and you'll find little there to cheer up the set-top box company's investors. Yes, the Yahoo! (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) deal will let a third of TiVo (nasdaq: TIVO - news - people ) subscribers program their boxes via the Web. But they could already do that via TiVo's own Web site, as well as through Time Warner's (nyse: TWX - news - people ) America Online."

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