San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
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...
TechConnect Magazine (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Carl Icahn, Yahoo's very own little billionaire investor, has officially resigned from the internet company's board of directors under the premise that as the activist behind the wheel, the company no longer needs him and that his chapter with the company has now come to a close. In his resignation letter, he wrote: "I don't believe that it is necessary at this time to have an activist on the...
SeekingAlpha Internet Stocks (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Sam Diaz submits: Billionaire Carl Icahn, who launched a proxy war for control of Yahoo ( YHOO ) after co-founder Jerry Yang rejected a Microsoft ( MSFT ) takeover last year, said he will resign from Yahoo’s Board of Directors, according to reports . Noting that the board no longer needs an activist, Icahn said he is focused on “a number of other companies” and that he doesn’t...
Tuscaloosanews.com (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Jack Lynch Activist investor Carl Icahn, who helped pressure Jerry Yang to quit as Yahoo's chief executive, said he is quitting Yahoo's board to focus on other matters.
Startup Meme (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
After putting former Yahoo CEO and founder, Jerry Yang , investor Carl Icahn thinks his era of destruction Yahoo reformation is done . The investor thinks its high time he left Yahoo and focused more on other companies where he has made investments in. He started to feature in news regularly last year when Yang had some major issues with the Microsoft deal before Microsoft pulled the wires off it....
Maple Leaf 2.0 (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
Carl Icahn, the billionaire investor that has long been associated with Yahoo, has decided to step down from his position at Yahoo’s board, stating that the Internet search giant no longer has any need for an activist investor. Icahn’s legacy with Yahoo involves his ardent efforts to get Jerry Yang removed as the CEO of the company. According to Icahn, Yang acted in such a way that was...
Epicenter (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
In as much an vote of confidence of the leadership of CEO Carol Bartz as his assault on Yahoo was a battle cry against the ineptitude of former CEO Jerry Yang, Carl Icahn has decided to resign from the company’s board of directors. “When I joined the board, the company was in a state of turmoil,” [...]
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
NEW YORK — Activist investor Carl Icahn is resigning from Yahoo's board of directors because he no longer has enough time to devote to the Internet company. In his resignation letter Friday, Icahn praised Yahoo's current CEO, Carol Bartz, whom the board hired in January to engineer a turnaround at the Sunnyvale company. Bartz replaced Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang, whom Icahn had been trying to...
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Peter Brooke | 11/19/2008
Yahoo announced on Monday that its chief executive Jerry Yang would step down from that role when the company decides on a replacement. Mr. Yang is a co-founder of online mogul Yahoo and had assumed control of the company from Terry Semel approximately a year and a half ago. In a statement, Yahoo said that Mr. Yang would return to his earlier role as “Chief Yahoo”, a corporate visionary role. Mr. Yang...
mbeteta | 05/04/2008
Microsoft has officially withdrawn its bid to acquire Yahoo in a letter that Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer sent today to Yahoo’s Jerry Yang. In a final meeting that took place today between Jerry Yang and David Filo from Yahoo and Steve Ballmer and Steve Johnson from Microsoft, Yahoo stated that the lowest price they would accept was $37 per share and Microsoft reported that they would not go over
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