Beef-eaters of the world wait with bated breath. Yahoo and its sacred cow-killer CEO Jerry Yang will announce third-quarter financial results this afternoon. Cantor Fitzgerald analyst Derek Brown predicts Yahoo will report earnings and revenues in line with Wall Street estimates. His view is that the company is losing "considerable share" in online advertising and that Panama, its new online-advertising system, is OK, but "not proven a 'game-changer.'" Others disagree: A research report from SearchIgnite and RBC Capital Markets says search advertisers increased spending with Yahoo by 7.8 percent during the third quarter versus the second. That's faster growth than Google, which only saw a 0.8 percent gain, they write. Yahoo's share of industry-wide search revenues, according to their analysis, grew from 18.5 percent to 20.4 percent.

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