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- Yahoo says no to Microsoft: what's next?
- News of this has just come down, less than 1/2 hour ago: that the Yahoo! Board of Directors (that's CEO Jerry Yang) has voted to reject Microsoft's $31 a share bid as inadequate. Seems as though they would take nothing under $40. The...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Terry Semel, Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Corporate Governance, Internet, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Investment, Finance, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-09
- Yahoo chair Semel's departure, Microsoft bid just hours apart. H-m-m
- Terry Semel left the CEO position at Yahoo! back in June, 2007. But he was still non-executive Yahoo! board chairman until yesterday. Therein lies the tale. At the time of the departure, it was widely surmised that Semel's exit was hastened by...
- Tags: Terry Semel, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-01
- Just a hunch: Semel's exit hastened by opposition to MySpace negotiations?
- This is just pure speculation, mind you, but I have a bit more than a hunch that now-former Yahoo! CEO Terry Semel's departure from that post was hastened by his inaction in terms of getting Yahoo! as deep into social media as it could have been.Awful interesting that just two...
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-06-20
- Yahoo investors, and others, make noise on the Web
- Yahoo investors, and others, make noise on the Web3 yrs ago I said Semel was a bad fit, and Yahoo-he's OutYahoo tried to buff up their image by playing to the favorites of Hollywood when importing Terry Semel, but all they got was an extremely over-priced figurehead. There is nothing...
- Tags: Channel management, Yahoo! Inc., Terry Semel, Web
- Discussion threads 2007-06-19
- 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
- Chief Yahoo Jerry Yang replaces Terry Semel as CEO
- Yahoo CEO Terry Semel has been under fire lately for under-performance and being overpaid. Today gave the CEO reins to Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, and assumed the role of nonexecutive Chairman. Sue Decker, who heads Yahoo's advertiser group was named president of the company.More to come....
- Tags: General
- Blog posts 2007-06-18
- Yahoo shareholder meeting will be day of discontent
- Yahoo will hold its annual shareholder meeting and the agenda includes some discontent, some Terry Semel bashing and various proposals urging the company to take a bigger stand on free speech. The shareholder meeting, which will be webcast beginning at 10 a.m. PT, sounds downright entertaining. Shareholders are miffed because...
- Tags: Yahoo, Web Technology, Google, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- Yahoo to Google: WE rule in display advertising!
- Google hurts Yahoo with DoubleClick deal I underscored upon Google’s announced $3.1 billion DoubleClick commitment to dominate display advertising online, as it does search advertising. Yahoo CEO Terry Semel did not reveal any wounds today, however, in declaring to investors in his Q1 2007 earnings report that Yahoo rules...
- Tags: Yahoo, Google, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- Yup, those Yahoo Panama expectations were too high
- Yahoo reported its first quarter results and as expected those lofty Panama expectations didnt hold up. The company reported net income of 10 cents a share on revenue of $1.18 billion. The revenue figure excludes traffic acquisition costs. On that same basis,...
- Tags: Yahoo, Web Technology, General
- Blog posts 2007-04-17
- Yahoo's Dan Rosensweig heading off for new adventures
- My colleague Larry Dignan as well as many others see TechMeme have already covered the news about the management shake up and reorganization at Yahoo. I checked in with Dan Rosensweig, the Yahoo COO who resigned as part the reorg. Dan and I go back more than a decade....
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Dan, Web Technology, Personal Technology, General
- 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 CEO Schmidt vs. Yahoo CEO Semel
- It was hard not to feel a bit bad for Yahoo CEO Terry Semel during his Q3 earnings conference call Tuesday. Not only was he reporting Yahoo’s lackluster financial performance, he had a troublesome cough (see Yahoo: We’re still number one!”).Google CEO Eric Schmidt, by contrast, had the happy task...
- Tags: Google Inc., Terry Semel, Q3 Earnings
- Blog posts 2006-10-19
- Yahoo: We're still number one!
- Yahoo CEO Terry Semel began the Yahoo Q#3 investor conference call yesterday by saying "we are very excited about a number of things happening at Yahoo," (see "Semel on Yahoo: We lead in social media" but his exictement was not palpable; He had a cough and sounded tired. No wonder,...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-10-18
- Semel on Yahoo: We lead in social media
- Terry Semel, Yahoo CEO, let the investor community know, once again, that the Yahoo homepage is “the most visited page on the Web.” He also let Wall Street know, however, that he is not satisfied with his company’s financial performance and he intends to do something about it, starting now...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-10-17
- Yahoo's Semel: We aggregate, we don't have a point of view
- The first question lobbed at Yahoo CEO Terry Semel by Walt Mossberg at the D conference was why Yahoo was providing China's government with information about its subscribers. Semel gave the standard Yahoo response. "We are totally pissed off, outraged and feel very sorry and badly," Semel said. He added...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Terry Semel
- Blog posts 2006-05-31
- Video: Yahoo CEO Terry Semel and Tom Cruise at CES
- Video: In keeping with the tradition of trotting out stars at CES with movies or music to promote, former Hollywood mogul and now Yahoo CEO Terry Semel called upon his old friend Tom Cruise, as well as Ellen DeGeneres, to spice up his keynote, which suffered a few glitches. Cruise...
- Tags: movie
- Blog posts 2006-01-06
- Web 2.0 Conference Day 2: Yahoo! CEO on future of media
- Today was a bit more laid back, with all the talks happening in the main auditorium. In practice this meant a lot of people wandered in and out of the talks, to spend time schmoozing and having meetings. Most of the hallway chatter was about weblogsinc selling to AOL. The...
- Tags: Terry Semel, Yahoo! Inc.
- Blog posts 2005-10-06
- Yahoo 2.0: Time spent = more money
- Yahoo CEO Terry Semel has a clear agenda for his company--it's all about content and creating a personalized environment in which users are more deeply engaged with the Yahoo's offerings. It's not just about page views or unique users, but about how much time is spent by individual users on...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Terry Semel
- Blog posts 2005-10-06
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- Childs rigged crazyquilt private network
- The prosecution unveiled more details on the lunacy in San Francisco in court filings that urged the judge to keep rogue network administrator Terry Childs' bail at $5 million. The Chronicle reports that prosecutors say that Childs had over 1,000 modems secreted around the city, forming his own private network...
- Tags: Network, Prosecutor, Networking, Productivity, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
- News to know: DNS flaw; Amazon; Microsoft shakeup; Facebook
- Notable headlines: Ryan Naraine: Researchers borrow from Google PageRank for network defense service Attack code published for DNS flaw Nate McFeters: |)ruid and HD Moore release part 2 of DNS exploit 'Spam King' escapes from federal prison iPhone vulnerable to phishing,...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Facebook, DNS, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Xbox, Flaw, Game Players, Domain Names, Networking, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-24
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