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Daily Debrief: Yahoo turns the page

News.com's Charles Cooper and Dan Farber discuss the aftermath of the company's long-awaited reorganization news.

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Page, News, charles cooper, dan farber, yahoo, jerry yang, susan decker, microsoft, bill gates, steve ballmer

Videos 2008-06-27

Yang replaces Semel as Yahoo CEO

Terry Semel steps down one week after shareholders blast him over search company's financial performance. Yahoo Chief Executive Terry Semel stepped down on Monday and handed the reins of the struggling search company to co-founder Jerry Yang after six years on the job. Susan Decker, former chief...

Tags: Shareholder, Jerry Yang, Terry Semel, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Yang, Susan Decker, Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Elinor Mills, Technology News

News items 2007-06-18

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From Peter Chernin to Mark Cuban: Picking Jerry Yang's Replacement

So, Peter Chernin's name keeps coming up as a potential replacement for Jerry Yang as CEO of Yahoo. Chernin's the always-cool president of News Corp. Under Rupert Murdoch and Chernin, the old-line publisher and broadcaster has shown serious savvy about new media. People...

Tags: Jerry Yang, Yahoo! Inc., Mark Cuban, Peter Chernin, Corporate Communications, Entrepreneurship, Investment, Marketing, Management, Finance, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Blog posts 2008-11-19

Week in review: Heat returns to Yahoo

Billionaire activist investor wants to show the door to Yahoo's CEO, while Bill Gates walks away from day-to-day work at Microsoft. Also: A Facebook face-off. The battle over Microsoft and Yahoo is heating up again as pressure increases to remove its CEO. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn...

Tags: Facebook, Yahoo! Inc., Bill Gates, Microsoft Corp., CEO, ConnectU, Corporate Governance, Litigation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Investment, Finance, Billionaire Activist Investor, News.com, Week in Review

News items 2008-06-27

Meet Jerry Yang, pinata

Meet Jerry Yang, pinataYahoo customers are walking.http://blog.wired.com/business/2008/06/marketers-see-l.htmlEveryone thinking Yaoo/Google was such a great idea, think again.RE: Meet Jerry Yang, pinataShame, really, because Yang esssentially stood up for employees and customers.Gee, what a concept.If MS took over Yahoo, there would have been massive layoffs, and the Yahoo products, and the consumers...

Tags: INTERNET, Benefits, Investment, Yahoo! Inc., Yang, Meet Jerry Yang, Microsoft Corp., Jerry Yang

Discussion threads 2008-06-16

Yahoo's revolving door: Yang in as CEO; Semel out

Yahoo's revolving door: Yang in as CEO; Semel outApparent heir.The self-confidence of those who assumed Susan Decker would succeed Mr. Semel was obvious.Without evaluating the specific circumstances of Yahoo or Ms. Decker, I wonder how people with dissemination of their writings can be near-unanimous about a prediction.Is this people reassuring...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Yang

Discussion threads 2007-06-18

Yahoo's revolving door: Yang in as CEO; Semel out

The inevitable happened: Yahoo CEO Terry Semel has stepped down as CEO.Jerry Yang, Yahoo co-founder, will become CEO. "I am ready to dig in to address the challenges that face Yahoo," said Yang on a conference call with analysts. Yang's blog also summed up his prepared remarks. While Semel's...

Tags: Yahoo, Web Technology, General

Blog posts 2007-06-18

Yahoo CTO resigns

Yahoo CTO Farzad Nazem has resigned.In an SEC filing Thursday, Yahoo said Nazem has resigned as chief technology officer effective June 8.  His termination letter can be found on the SEC site.The resignation of Nazem is a blow to a company that just solidified its management team by adding Blake...

Tags: General, Web Technology, Yahoo

Blog posts 2007-05-30

Yahoo names new CFO

Yahoo has named Blake Jorgensen chief financial officer. The move comes as Susan Decker moves over to run Yahoos advertiser and publisher group. Deckers move was announced late last year. She has taken a more prominent role on earnings conference...

Tags: General, Search, Web Technology, Yahoo

Blog posts 2007-05-15

Yahoo: Right Media, or Social Media Junk CPM story?

What a difference five months and $680 million makes!Yahoo hailed the advantages of its premium display advertising business in its Q3 2006 earnings call by touting it against “a whole proliferation of a lot of inventory in sort of the lower end of the non-premium range”:A lot of the social...

Tags: Advertising, Yahoo

Blog posts 2007-04-30

What Yahoo's Right Media purchase is really about

Yahoo acquires Right Media and we hear about the democratization of online advertising, a few thinly-veiled Google barbs and some tough talk from the likes of Yahoo CEO Terry Semel and CFO Susan Decker. I dont doubt that Right Media is...

Tags: Yahoo, Web Technology, Google, General

Blog posts 2007-04-30

Yahoo buys rest of Right Media for $680 million

Yahoo said Monday it will buy the remainder of Right Media that it doesnt already own. Right Media runs an online advertising exchange and is likely to give Yahoo an exit from working with DoubleClick, which is soon to be GoogleClick. ...

Tags: Yahoo, Web Technology, Google, General

Blog posts 2007-04-30

Yahoo: Panama launches Feb. 5

Yahoo said most of its advertisers have transitioned to Panama platform and all will be on board by the end of the quarter. Panama, which is the code name for Yahoos project to close the Google text advertising gap, will launch on Feb. 5. The...

Tags: General, Web Technology, Google, Yahoo, Yahoo! Inc.

Blog posts 2007-01-23

Back story on Yahoo reorganization...

The timing of Yahoos reorganization announcement signaled something else is going on. The time on the Businesswire release was 5.34pm Tuesday West Coast time. Usually such events are announced early the next day before the stock markets open, or early afternoon Pacific time, when those markets have closed.Heres what...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Yahoo, Search, Google

Blog posts 2006-12-06

Yahoo shakeup: Semel stays; Rosensweig goes; is the reorg enough?

Rumors of Yahoos management shakeup turned out to be on target, but some of the execs coming and going are a bit of a shocker.Shocker: Yahoo chief operating officer Dan Rosensweig is leaving at the end of March.Semi-surprise: CEO Terry Semel stays on board.A bit of a surprise: Yahoo is...

Tags: Yahoo!s, Yahoo! Inc., General

Blog posts 2006-12-05

Google vs. Yahoo: A confidence game

Buried inside the "infamous" Yahoo “Peanut Butter Manifesto” is a simple, but powerful, phrase signalling Yahoo is “more profitable than ever.” The “strong, clear and powerful message to our shareholders and Wall Street” that Yahoo put forth was not a positive one, however; Yahoo took to the Wall Street...

Tags: Eric Schmidt, Yahoo! Inc., Google Inc., Google, Yahoo

Blog posts 2006-11-22

Is Yahoo's glut Google's opportunity?

The dismal is on Yahoo after it announced a 20 percent increase in revenue compared to the previous years quarter. Google, expected to grab as much as 25 percent of the online ad market in the quarter is succeeding by doing one thing that Yahoo hasnt on its "on-network" properties:...

Tags: Google Inc., advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Yahoos, advertiser, network

Blog posts 2006-10-18

What does Yahoo's ad warning mean?

Sluggish ad sales for cars and mortgages could signal overall economy slowdown, some analysts say. Yahoo startled the fast-growing Internet advertising community last month when it warned that a slump in ads from automotive and financial services companies would hurt upcoming earnings. The question,...

Tags: Advertisement, Yahoo! Inc., Online Advertising, Elinor Mills, Web Technology

News items 2006-10-04

Semel paints bright future for Yahoo

The Web portal's CEO tells investors that marketing revenue will leap by 20 percent next year--and paid subscriber numbers will zoom past 2 million. Yahoo CEO Terry Semel painted a rosy picture of the Web portal's future for investors Thursday, saying marketing revenue and paid subscriber numbers will rise...

Tags: Revenue, Terry Semel, Yahoo! Inc., Broadband, SBC Communications Inc., DSL, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Portals, Telecommunications, Personal Technology, Networking, Internet, Jim Hu, Technology News

News items 2002-12-13

Yahoo president Mallett to quit

Jeff Mallett announces he will resign as president and COO of Yahoo as the Web portal beats Wall Street expectations in its fourth-quarter earnings report. Yahoo's shares climbed Thursday, a day...

Tags: Revenue, Yahoo! Inc., Jeff Mallett, Operational Accounting, Finance, Jim Hu, Technology News

News items 2002-01-16