Truemors (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yahoo’s resident Chatty Cathy, chairman Roy Bostock, has revealed that the troubled internet giant is chugging along at rapid pace and could name a new CEO by the end of year and ink a deal with AOL within a week. Bada bing bada boom! The merger with AOL could go through before Yahoo appoints Jerry [...]
Smalltalk Tidbits, Industry Rants (Free subscription) | yesterday
As much as I think it would be a mistake for Microsoft to acquire Yahoo, it would have been a great deal for Yahoo's shareholders, and Yang was silly to reject the proffer on those grounds. Now we see that Evan Williams is bringing the same kind of management to Twitter: Serious talks between the Facebook social network and the Twitter microblogging service started soon after Mr. Williams took over...
YHOO - BloggingStocks (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Filed under: Deals , Microsoft (MSFT) , Yahoo! (YHOO) , Newsletters , Bargain stocks , Stocks to Buy Lately it's been very difficult for investors to get their bearings, but I can tell you that the winners in this game will be companies with little or no debt. Forget what stock values are doing now and focus on the future. You can take it to the bank that stocks gaining in value will have started...
Global Financial News (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Filed under: Deals , Microsoft (MSFT) , Yahoo! (YHOO) , Newsletters , Bargain stocks , Stocks to Buy Lately it's been very difficult for investors to get their bearings, but I can tell you that the winners in this game will be companies with little or no debt. Forget what stock values are doing now and focus on the future. You can take it to the bank that stocks gaining in value will have started...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yahoo has had had its fair share of problems recently, but it seems Jerry Yang's reign has addled more than just the company's share price. According to Yahoo Buzz's Year in Review , the most searched-for term on Yahoo this year was Britney Spears (after all the NSFW searches, naturally). Britney? Well, given her ups and downs over the past year I can handle that - even if Wired's Epicenter blog uses...
Paidcontent (Free subscription) | yesterday
Looks like Jerry Yang and the rest of the Yahoo ( NSDQ: YHOO ) gang weren't the only ones sad to see the search outsourcing deal with Google ( NSDQ: GOOG ) die. Sanford Litvack, a lawyer the Department of Justice hired specifically to examine the deal, was hungry for the chance to take the two giants on in court. "Of course I was looking forward to it. We felt pretty good about it, we felt pretty...
Portfolio.com: The Tech Observer (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Sam Gustin writes : Several reports now say that Jonathan Miller, routinely mentioned as a possible successor to Yahoo's outgoing chief executive Jerry Yang, is out raising money, but for his venture capital fund, not for a potential buyout of Yahoo , as the Wall Street Journal reported . Read my colleague Jeff Bercovici's post on how not just one but two Murdoch papers got it wrong. Related Links...
Physorg (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
I hardly know where to start. Business brains have made so many bad decisions over the years that it's a wonder there are any going concerns left on the planet. When I wrote recently that Jerry Yang's decision to walk away from Microsoft and $44.6 billion of Bill Gates' hard-earned money was the worst business decision ever, I knew there was room for dissent.
SeekingAlpha Internet Stocks (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Seth Gilbert submits: Next to Jerry Yang, Steve Ballmer and Carl Icahn , few names have been mentioned more frequently in Yahoo ’s (YHOO) ongoing survival story than Jon Miller. The partner at Velocity Interactive , and former AOL chief (2002 to 2006) was mentioned as an adviser in the failed Micro-hoo combination . In Carl Icahn’s proxy fight he was expected to be a Yahoo board appointee until blocked...
http://www.iwr.co.uk/ (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Michelle Perry, Information World Review , Wednesday 3 December 2008 at 14:16:00 Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo, is to resign as chief executive as soon as a replacement is found, the company announced in November. Yang will, however, remain on the board Yahoo, based in California’s Silicon Valley, said it was looking at candidates for the position inside and outside the company in a search led by...
Marketing Pilgrim (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Today is practically a national holiday: Britney Spears’s birthday. Celebrate. Something’s going on ’round here: Carl Icahn has bought up more Yahoo, increasing his stake to 5.5% of the company. Ten guesses what he wants to do with it—oh, wait, Jerry Yang is already out… How was Black Friday online? comScore reports that eCommerce [...]
Valleywag (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
How sad that no one convincing has stepped up to run Yahoo! Pursued then spurned by Microsoft, the company is looking to replace founder Jerry Yang. Mike Murdock, a disabled Navy veteran, has raised...
Advertising Age - Digital (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Jon Miller doesn't want to just lead Yahoo -- he wants to buy the company. The former CEO of AOL, considered a leading candidate to succeed Jerry Yang as CEO, is attempting to raise the capital to make a run at Yahoo, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Adotas (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
ADOTAS — As Google continues to distance itself from ineptly managed rivals in search, Yahoo looks for new a leader and tries to find scale. Of course, if Jerry Yang had handled Microsoft a little better, Yahoo and MSN would be ready to be betrothed. But all is not lost, says Breakingviews, which makes some helpful suggestions. Yahoo should offer to buy the MSN unit. With Yahoo’s stock in the tank,...
News Of Techie (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
After the announcement of the resignation of Jerry Yang of the post of CEO of Yahoo, rumors linked to a new Microsoft assault resumed with a vengeance. In an article dated Nov. 30 of the British newspaper Sunday Times (available on timesonline) and the firm’s Steve Ballmer would be willing to acquire the “online search” on [...]
