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New Gadgets and Gizmos (Free subscription) | yesterday
There is a new parlor game in Silicon Valley: guessing who will replace Jerry Yang at the helm of the troubled Internet giant Yahoo. Yang, a Yahoo co-founder, said Monday that he would relinquish the chief executive role once a successor is named and revert to being "chief Yahoo," the strategy position he held before his 18 turbulent months of running the company. But even before...
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CRM Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
There is a new parlor game in Silicon Valley: guessing who will replace Jerry Yang at the helm of the troubled Internet giant Yahoo. Yang, a Yahoo co-founder, said Monday that he would relinquish the chief executive role once a successor is named and revert to being "chief Yahoo," the strategy position he held before his 18 turbulent months of running the company. But even before...
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TechSheep (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Mathew Ingram / GigaOM: Why Microsoft Should Bid Again — and Yahoo Should Accept — Now that Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang has finally stepped aside, removing what many saw as one of the main barriers to bringing the two companies together, Microsoft should re-ignite acquisition talks with the company.
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MSFN - Frontpage News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2008
Microsoft has stated that the firm is not looking to buy Yahoo but is keen on collaborating on internet search. Microsoft chief executive Steve...
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Maximum PC all RSS Feed (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Yahoo co-founder and chief executive Jerry Yang has spent the better portion of 2008 staving off a takeover attempt by Microsoft that threatened to go hostile, a decision that hasn't always been a popular one with Yahoo shareholders. Nor has it sat well with the 10 percent of employees facing a job cut by the end of the year. Now, just 18 months after stepping into the role of CEO, Yang...
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San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
SAN FRANCISCO – There's a new parlor game in Silicon Valley: guessing who will replace Jerry Yang at the helm of the troubled Internet giant Yahoo. Yang, a Yahoo co-founder, said Monday that he would relinquish the chief executive role once a successor is named and revert to being “chief Yahoo,” the strategy position he held before his 18 turbulent months running the company.
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GigaOM (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Now that Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang has finally stepped aside, removing what many saw as one of the main barriers to bringing the two companies together, Microsoft should re-ignite acquisition talks with the company. But that's not the only reason. There are plenty of other good ones why it should do so — and why Yahoo should accept. (full story below) After his last effort...
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The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
NAME: Jerry Yang. AGE: 40. EDUCATION: Bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering, Stanford University. TITLE: CEO and chief Yahoo. The latter title is also held by Yahoo co-founder David Filo. Yang also is on Yahoo's board of directors. CAREER: Founded Yahoo with Filo in 1995, took over as CEO in June 2007. Also serves as a director at Cisco Systems Inc....
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Hostpundit - Hosting and Gadgets (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
November 18, 2008 — ( WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Yahoo co-Founder Jerry Yang has stepped down as the company’s chief executive officer, ending a tumultuous almost year-and-a-half long post as the head of the second-largest US Internet-search engine company.
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DealBook (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
There’s a new parlor game in Silicon Valley: guessing who will replace Jerry Yang at the helm of the troubled Internet giant Yahoo. Mr. Yang, a Yahoo co-founder, said on Monday that he would give up the chief executive role once a successor is named and revert to being “chief Yahoo,” the strategy position he held [...]
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ScribeMedia (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang is stepping down as CEO, ending one of the most turbulent periods in the dot-com company’s history. Yang’s tenure was marked by his refusal to sell Yahoo to Microsoft for $47.5 billion — more than triple Yahoo’s current market value. A backup plan to forge an advertising partnership with Google collapsed [...]
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 11/18/2008
Last updated November 17, 2008 7:17 p.m. PTAt a glance: Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry YangBy THE ASSOCIATED PRESSNAME: Jerry Yang.AGE: 40.EDUCATION: Bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering, Stanford University.TITLE: CEO and chief Yahoo. The latter title is also held by Yahoo co-founder David Filo. Yang also is on Yahoo's board of directors.CAREER: Founded...
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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Microsoft Corp. is no longer interested in buying all of Yahoo Inc., CEO Steve Ballmer said Wednesday, though he told shareholders that the company would still be "very open" to a collaboration on Internet search. His comments sent Yahoo shares diving by 12 percent.
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San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/19/2008
Microsoft says it is still interested in some sort of Web search deal with Yahoo. The software maker's chief executive, Steve Ballmer, says Microsoft Corp. is no longer interested in buying all of Yahoo Inc. But he told shareholders Wednesday that the company...
