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The Industry Standard (Free subscription) | yesterday
Once again it's time for my pre-Thanksgiving feast, where I honor the individuals who acted the most like turkeys over the last 11 months. (Next month I'll get to my awards for malfeasance and general asshattedness by groups and corporations.) Last year I honored rocker Axl Rose , escort-friendly ex-governor Eliot Spitzer, Chinese Premier Jen Waibao, Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen, and Yahoo's Jerry...
Xconomy (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
This past Saturday, almost 700 people showed up for Cyberposium 15 at Harvard Business School, arguably the premier student-organized business school technology conference in the world, with past guests including Yahoo’s Jerry Yang, Amazon’s Jeff Bezos, and Google’s Marissa Mayer. The crowd consisted mostly of MBA students and other local students but had significant representation...
UAEinteract.com - News (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, in the presence of Dubai Crown Prince Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, received here yesterday Co-founder, Former CEO and Chief
Procure IQ (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
A recent article over on Fortune by Ken Auletta lists 10 things Google has taught us. Now, it's obvious the 10 lessons provide a path to success (as you just have to look at where Google stands), but did Google teach us well? Before we can answer that, we have to review the 10 lessons. Passion Wins Larry Page and Sergey Brin are involved with Google full-time, unlike Jerry Yang and David Filo of Yahoo....
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
In a Nov. 15 story about Egypt's plan to apply for the first Internet domain name written in Arabic, The Associated Press incorrectly quoted Yahoo Inc. co-founder Jerry Yang. Yang said new Internet users in emerging markets "will need Web content, and want more content in their native language, and still others won't just be bound by language and barriers, but have other challenges such as reading,...
Yodel Anecdotal (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
While industry analysts estimate that about 1.6 billion people are on the Internet today, this still leaves three out of every four people on this planet without access. This Sunday, at the Internet Governance Forum’s annual meeting, Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang delivered a keynote address to discuss the impact of the Internet on people’s lives, the [...]
All About domains (Free subscription) | 11/15/2009
Egypt to apply for first Arabic domain name Egypt will apply for the first Internet domain written in Arabic, its information technology minister said Sunday at a conference grouping Yahoo's co-founder and others to discuss boosting online access in emerging nations. Tarek Kamel said Egypt on Monday would apply for the new domain — pronounced ".masr" but written in the Arabic alphabet...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
Yahoo Inc. Chief Executive Carol Bartz promised Tuesday to turn around the struggling Internet company after this year's "terrible" performance. Bartz reiterated her goal to boost operating profit margin to between 15 percent and 20 percent within the next... Yahoo - Carol Bartz - Business - Microsoft - Jerry Yang
Digital Daily - All Things Digital (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Looks like there may be a bit of truth to reports that Cisco would rather bail on its proposed acquisition of Tandberg than raise its bid for the videoconferencing equipment manufacturer. Remarking today on speculation that Cisco would do just that, Ned Hooper, the company’s chief strategy officer, stressed that Cisco “will always act with fiscal prudence” as it pursues Tandberg.
GigaOM (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was in fine form this week, telling the crowd assembled for the company’s analyst day that after only 14 years, Yahoo had “somehow got boring,” declaring its 6 percent operating margin as “pathetic” and announcing the start of “good times” that will leave those bad old times (hello, Jerry Yang) in [...]
Search Engine Watch (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Does the thinking of Google's Sergey Brin and Larry Page, Yahoo's Jerry Yang and David Filo, and Microsoft's Bill Gates mirror some of the great philosophers of history? ...
BoomTown (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
In what should come as a shock to almost no one, the detailed negotiations to complete the Microsoft and Yahoo search and online advertising final agreement is more complicated that its authors anticipated and is taking longer than expected to complete. Relax, folks--it'll get done. But here's a more important thing that should wrap up sooner than later: Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz's jibes about former CEO...
The Business Insider (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
About a year ago, Yahoo's now departed top brass dragged Mad Men's Jon Hamm onto a stage in New York and launched APT, a dashboard for for display advertising buyers and sellers. At the same time, then CEO Jerry Yang announced on a Yahoo blog that APT would first open to Yahoo's newspaper consortium partners and then to "publishers, advertisers, agencies and ad networks beginning in 2009."...
Search Engine Watch Blog (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
He came, he kinda sorta conquered and now he's left. Investor Carl Icahn, who stirred up investors during the Microsoft acquisition attempt, quit Yahoo!'s Board of Directors on Friday . After Yahoo! failed to accept Microsoft's offer to fully acquire the Sunnyvale-based Internet company, Carl Icahn embarked on his own attempt to overthrow Yahoo!'s Board of Directors . Icahn ultimately settled with...
Telecompaper (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
(Telecompaper) Financier Carl Icahn has resigned as a director of Yahoo!, saying the board no longer needed an activist investor, the New York Times reported. Icahn said that his attention was "focused on other matters" and that he did not have the time to concentrate on Yahoo's business. Icahn joined the Yahoo board in August 2008 after settling his proxy challenge to replace the company's...
The 3 latest articles published by users on Yahoo! Inc. :
newysrael | 07/07/2009
Yahoo Inc on Tuesday unveiled a new feature called Search Pad, a solution to solve a problem that many users on the Web have: how to simplify researching online.
dhall987 | 03/04/2009
Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Carol Bartz said social network sites are a key area of interest for the Internet media company, even as it tries to figure out how to boost its Web search business...(read more)
gad2009 | 02/25/2009
Yahoo Inc is set to unveil several tools on Tuesday to help marketers better target their online adverts, as the Internet company tries to win back business during a recession, a news report said, citing senior company officials.
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