Yahoo’s Ken Goldman certainly earned the gold in his name today by managing to deftly financially engineer a nice net earnings boost in the third quarter that surprised Wall Street, as well as a sales increase of one percent when everyone expected the typical decline.
Now, let’s be clear, Yahoo is not out of the woods — its operations are still lagging and its display sales are too. But it finally unveiled mobile revenue. Also search revenue was up, despite a significant decline in market share.
And here we go:
This article originally appeared on Recode.net.
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