Yahoo has been around the block once or twice when it comes to picking out its CEOs, and it may be a little more protective with its latest tap, Marissa Mayer. Mayer was not on the company’s earnings call today …
The board of iconic tech company Yahoo is meeting today to discuss keeping interim chief executive Ross Levinsohn in the position permanently, according to an LA Times report that cites an unnamed source familiar with the matter.
Over the last …
Yahoo‘s revenue dropped 13 percent compared to the same period last year, the company reported today. In its quarterly earnings’ announcement Tuesday, Yahoo reported $1,324 million in GAAP revenue for the fourth quarter of 2011, while costs increased by 10 …
Yahoo co-founder and former CEO Jerry Yang has resigned from the Yahoo board of directors and all other positions, the company announced late today. Yang also resigned from the boards of Yahoo Japan and Alibaba Group.
In a letter to …
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After the tumultuous reign of Carol Bartz, a firebrand whose foul mouth was the delight of onlookers and the bane of her own company, Yahoo has settled on an entirely different type of leader.
Scott Thompson, 53, is a nerd, …
Yahoo’s board is considering selling its holdings of Alibaba Group and its Japanese affiliate back to the majority owners, a move that would score the company around $17 billion as it tries to find solid footing in troublesome year.
Yahoo …
This week, IBM named its first-ever female CEO, Virginia Rometty.
In an industry that historically lacks gender balance, this move struck the VentureBeat staffers, including publisher Alicia Saribalis, as momentous.
But in reflecting on the events of the day, we …
Google is the latest company to be connected to a potential buyout of troubled Yahoo Inc. The search giant has talked to at least two equity firms about helping it acquire a chunk of Yahoo, according to a report in …
We’ve all heard insanity defined as doing the same thing and expecting different results.
Today, Yahoo‘s board is getting a little crazy, hiring the same executive search firm that unearthed Carol Bartz to find the company’s next CEO.
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Yahoo co-founder and former CEO Jerry Yang is apparently interested in buying out the company and taking it private, reports Reuters.
Yahoo has experienced some notable setbacks of late that have put its future in question. The company fired CEO …
Although Yahoo is in turmoil after the ouster of CEO Carol Bartz, the company is still continuing to release digital products and trying to innovate. The company on Tuesday launched a new video site called Yahoo Screen that it will …
ABC News will begin distributing its news content through Yahoo, it announced today.
The partnership with ABC News would be a return to form of sorts for Yahoo, which was originally born as a portal site that would direct viewers …
Former Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz resigned from the company’s board of directors Friday, according to a Wall Street Journal report published today.
Bartz was fired from her post as Yahoo’s chief executive September 6. Previously, she stated that she didn’t …
Aol and Yahoo have had their most embarrassing moments this week under the media spotlight. So it’s only natural that the two companies are rumored to be talking about a merger.
Bloomberg reported Aol chief executive Officer Tim Armstrong is …
Former Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz might be at risk of losing money from her severance package due to offensive comments made about company’s board of directors in an interview published Thursday.
Yahoo put a non-disparagement clause in Bartz’s employment contract, …
Barely 24 hours after getting fired from her position as CEO via a phone call from Yahoo’s chairman of the board, Carol Bartz tells Fortune, ”These people fucked me over.”
It’s sad that in her first interview since the firing, …
We’re reading reports that Yahoo is hiring a new team of advisory firms and financial professionals to help resuscitate the company following the dramatic ouster of former CEO Carol Bartz.
In addition to engaging the services of a large executive …
Yahoo employees are celebrating the fact that their chief executive, Carol Bartz, has been fired.
Former Yahoo vice president Brad Garlinghouse greeted the news with a gleefully nasty tweet: “Ding dong the witch is dead.”
He’s not alone. According to …
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As the firing of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz suggests, patience is wearing thin among board directors at big technology companies. Bartz’s ouster follows the firing of other CEOs for offenses that would be classified as misdemeanors at any other type …
Here’s a timeline of major events in the history of Yahoo.
January 1994: Jerry Yang and David Filo create Jerry’s Guide to the World Wide Web while studying at Stanford University.
April 1994: The search engine is renamed Yahoo.
March …
