BizDeansTalk (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Click here for the article of the New York Times, October 17, 2009. This interview with Carol Bartz, chief executive of Yahoo, was conducted and condensed by Adam Bryant. .... Q. What should business schools teach more of, or less...
GigaOM (Free subscription) | 31/10/2009
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 [...]
CRM Daily (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
With its stock in a three-year funk, Yahoo Inc. set out Wednesday to persuade investors that the Internet company's struggles are nearly over. "We have fallen and we really want to get back up," Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz said as she kicked off an all-day meeting with financial analysts. "We really want to get back on our tippy toes." Bartz vowed to make the company more...
Search Engine News (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
submit_url = "http://blog.clickz.com/091029-83801.html";Yahoo filed an extension last night to its self-imposed deadline for signing the pending search deal with Microsoft. When the deal was announced on July 29, the companies expected to complete the deal by October 27, but that didn’t happen. During its analyst day presentations yesterday, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz told financial analysts...
Tech Blog (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Will the new Droid smartphone be a hit for the anti-iPhone alliance of Motorola, Google and Verizon? How is Carol Bartz doing in her effort to turn around Yahoo? And what does the fading buzz around Nintendo’s Wii say about the future of the gaming business? Listen to reporters from the FT’s San Francisco bureau discuss some of [...]
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Yahoo ( NSDQ: YHOO ) is moving ahead with a plan to construct a three million square foot campus in Santa Clara that would rival the Googleplex in size, Marketwatch reports ; an environmental impact report is currently under review by the city. A Yahoo spokeswoman tells us that it’s all still in the “planning process and it is too early to discuss potential costs or specific usage of the...
SeekingAlpha Internet Stocks (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Tech Confidential submits: Wednesday was the first day of Yahoo! Inc.'s (NASDAQ: YHOO ) road back to respect, CEO Carol Bartz promised before an audience of analysts. But a key part of the executive's transformation of the struggling Internet company that was supposed to be consummated Tuesday is going to take a bit longer than expected . Complete Story »
Computerworld UK (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Channeling Aretha Franklin, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz told investors and financial analysts that the company is working hard to regain the respect it has lost in the market.
The Guardian Technology blog (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Google says Search and ye shall find music links; Yahoo and Microsoft have extended the deadline for their search deal, and Motorola is one-upping the iPhone with its new Droid * Google has made its search "more musical", it says on The Official Google Blog . Now if you search for something musical, "the name of a song, artist or album -- your search results will include links to an...
SeekingAlpha Internet Stocks (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Carl Howe ( Blackfriars Communications ) submits: ( Wednesday, 6:30PM ET ) CFO Tim Morse just finished up his presentation here at the Yahoo Analyst Conference, and of course, he presented some details of the timeline of the Yahoo -Microsoft Bing deal. Bottom line: the clock hasn’t even started yet, and it’s going to take years before the benefits of this deal actually come to pass. It’s...
BoomTown (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
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 Industry Standard (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Why did he do it? A Bloomberg profile of AMD executive chairman Héctor De J. Ruiz, whom government prosecutors say fed inside information to hedge fund firm Galleon Group, whose co-founder Raj Rajaratnam was arrested on Friday, along with three other people including top IBM executive Robert Moffat , who had been seen by many as the company’s next CEO. This is the part you need to know...
The New Mexico Business Weekly (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
CEO Carol Bartz vowed to bring back respect for Yahoo Inc. and called its 6 percent operating margin unaccceptable in a Wednesday conference call with analysts. (YHOO)
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Yahoo ( NSDQ: YHOO ) and Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT ) say in an SEC filing they will extend “the period to negotiate and execute” their search ad agreement, which they had initially said they would complete by Tuesday. While both companies agreed to the deal at the end of July, they said at the time that some details still needed to be hashed out. CEO Carol Bartz downplayed the development...
Silicon Alley Insider (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
Yahoo (YHOO) held its analyst day today. JP Morgan's Imran Khan took away five key points: More emphasis on user data. Yahoo! will devote more focus to understanding its user base in the US, with the goal of increasing engagement by providing the most relevant and targeted content to users. Increased focus on improving margins. During her initial comments, CEO Carol Bartz stated that 6% operating...
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