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Reuters

Yahoo forecast lower-than-expected revenue for the current quarter as it struggles to revive its core online advertising business and spends more to attract users to its websites.
Shares of Yahoo were marginally down at US$39.34 in after-market trading.
Yahoo has been developing content for its mobile platform to drive user engagement and ad sales as its core online advertising business struggles in the face of stiff competition from Google and Facebook.
Traffic acquisition costs (TAC), the amount Yahoo spends to attract users to Yahoo websites, rose to US$200.2 million in the second quarter ended June 30, from US$43.8 million a year earlier.
Total revenue, after deducting fees paid to partner websites, was flat at US$1.04 billion.
Chief financial officer Ken Goldman said the company expects TAC to grow for the next few quarters.
"Their core business has been struggling and they've done relatively little to fix it and you could argue that there is not much that they can do," Pivotal Research Group analyst Brian Wieser told Reuters.
"Right now it's all about Alibaba and Yahoo Japan and whatever your expectations are around the spins," Wieser said.
Yahoo plans to spin off its 15 per cent stake in Alibaba into a public company, Aabaco Holdings, which will also include Yahoo Small Business that provides domain names and local marketing. Yahoo's Alibaba stake is valued at about US$31 billion, based on the Chinese company's share price on Monday.
Yahoo said in April it hired advisers to determine the "most promising opportunities" for its stake in Yahoo Japan.
On Tuesday, Yahoo said it expected third-quarter revenue of US$1.00 billion–US$1.04 billion, below the average analyst estimate of US$1.07 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
Revenue from Yahoo's emerging businesses, which chief executive Marrisa Mayer calls Mavens - referring to ads from mobile, video, native and social - rose 14.7 per cent in the second quarter.
The Mavens portfolio includes BrightRoll, mobile app network Flurry, mobile ad buying platform Yahoo Gemini and blogging site Tumblr.
"We continue to explore innovative yet thoughtful monetisation solutions on Tumblr," Mayer said.
Search revenue rose 22 per cent with a 4 per cent rise in price-per-click, while revenue from display ads increased 15 per cent in the second quarter with price per ad up 10 per cent.
Excluding items, the company earned 16 cents per share, missing analysts' average estimate of 18 cents per share.


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