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Blackstone reportedly reached out to Oracle co-prez Mark Hurd to gauge his interest in being Dell CEO should Blackstone’s buyout bid succeed. Here are a few much more interesting options.
Shock. Awe. Wow. Huh? All valid reactions to the last-minute plot twist in Yahoo’s search for its third CEO in the past 10 months: the hiring of Google star Marissa Mayer as president and CEO.
Scott Thompson’s mythical computer science degree not only took him down as CEO, it forced a board change, gave shareholder Daniel Loeb a way in and made the focus on how the company is run — not what it is doing. Can Ross Levinsohn change that?
Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson’s Q1 call with investors and analysts was a lot more big picture and buzzwords than details but we did get a few fine points, including plans to close 50 properties and a promise to focus on Yahoo’s own assets.
The markets didn’t punish Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) today when it announced it would appoint a payments technology specialist, Scott Thompson, as i…
Yahoo has appointed a new CEO — Scott Thompson, a veteran of PayPal, a division of eBay, and he has his work clearly cut out for him. Despite choosing a new CEO, the company’s problems, including a troubled and toxic board, have not gone away.
With all the buzz around Yahoo recently, its financial conference call with analysts and investors could have been a big event. But interim CEO Tim Morse made it clear that investors looking for answers about Yahoo’s CEO search and M&A options were out of luck.
Yahoo and ABC announced a partnership that will see the two combine their news assets. Although it isn’t being described as a merger, it might as well be one — but is it going to work any online magic for either entity? It’s difficult to see how.
Forget the heated discussions over Carol Bartz’s graceless e-mail in response to a graceless firing by phone. A whole new round is about to…
“The board was so spooked by being cast as the worst board in the country. Now they’re trying to show that they’re…
Carol Bartz’s exit is the best thing to happen to Yahoo’s stock in a week.
Update: Yahoo’s stock closed at 13.61 on Wednesday afternoon, up…
From her moment signing on as CEO, to the moment she informed her staff of her dismissal via an iPad, mobile has been a persistent force dur…
Carol Bartz, the deposed Yahoo chief executive wasn’t much of a hit with her employees and are approval rating has been sliding by the quarter, if you believe the data from employee ratings service, Glassdoor. This quarter she holds a 33% approval rating. Ouch!
Push has finally come to shove at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). Kara Swisher reports that Carol Bartz is out at Yahoo and that CFO Tim Morse is interi…
What Yahoo needs is a product-oriented chief executive who has cut her/his teeth on the consumer Internet and has a clear idea of what the company’s product line-up looks like in an Internet that is primarily mobile. So who do you think is that person?
The big question at Yahoo’s annual shareholder meetings over the last couple of years has been when the clock will run out on Carol Bartz. T…
Three Junes ago, Ross Levinsohn and his investment partner Jon Miller were caught up in the drama of Yahoo as Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) tried t…
Alibaba Group CEO Jack Ma wants Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and SoftBank to give up some of their stake in the Chinese internet company. “We want to…
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz acknowledged during the company’s earnings call Tuesday that the company’s search operations were “encoun…
Some see Yahoo as a slow-motion train wreck, heading inevitably for disaster. But the company is arguably doing exactly what it has to: triage to stanch the bleeding, shutting down or selling off assets, and so on. It may not be pretty, but it is necessary.
Since they are both giant web companies with a search engine at their core, the assumption is that Yahoo competes primarily with Google. But the truth is that Yahoo has more to fear from Facebook — and Yahoo’s CEO Carol Bartz admitted as much on Tuesday.
Asked by Fox Business about a “cacophony of analysts screaming and yelling about her grace period is over, is she going to go” Yahoo (NSDQ:…
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz acknowledged during the company’s conference call that neither the company’s search ad business or its di…
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz got the typical — “your China policy needs reworking” — and not so typical — “you should go into polit…
There are plenty of sexy quotes in the May Esquire interview of Carol Bartz and then there’s her explanation of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and the t…
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has been taking a lot of flak for saying in an interview with the BBC that Google needs to diversify its business, because it is still “99.9 percent search.” But you know what? She’s right. The search giant does need to diversify.
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz made $47 million in total compensation last year, according to Yahoo’s just-filed proxy statement. That i…
Plenty of people have pointed out that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) makes almost all its money from search. But given that Google’s revenue jumped 19…
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz portrayed the company’s quarterly financial results as “solid” during Yahoo’s earnings call — pointing t…
A notable exchange during Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz’s rather rowdy appearance on CNBC’s Power Lunch today. Moderator: “Is Yahoo bet…
Yahoo’s CEO Carol Bartz slammed government involvement in broadband deployments, crappy consumer spending, and said she would would have taken Microsoft’s offer of $36 per share back in 2008, in an interview today on CNBC. However, she didn’t come out against net neutrality.
Marketers and agency execs began gathering for the 4A’s Transformation 2010 conference in San Francisco to go over the current challenges to…
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz is known for not pulling any punches when it comes to zinging her company — this fall, she referred to t…
Some cautious optimism from Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz who said that the company’s business improved significantly during the fourth…
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz trumpeted the comeback of display ads on today’s earnings call with analysts, saying “Frankly our competition is television.” She said her company is looking to make acquisitions in 2010, including niche web content businesses.
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was in fine form this week, telling the crowd assembled for the company’s analyst day that after only…
Yahoo (s yhoo) outlined its new global branding campaign today, dubbed “It’s You!”, which is focused on the personalization of its homepage…
In case you were wondering, Yahoo is not a search company. That’s the word from freshly installed Yahoo (s yhoo) CEO Carol…
Forget the quips being twittered about. Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz wasn’t at D7 for a stand-up routine. She was here to undo the dam…
After Yahoo laid off much of its remaining video platform team and lost most of its top video execs in recent months,…
The blogosphere may be abuzz with rumors about *Yahoo* and *Microsoft* being in “hot and heavy” talks about a paid search deal, but during Y…
One-hundred-days into her job as Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO, Carol Bartz said she’s been on a whirlwind tour of Yahoo’s operations, meeting with…
Yahoo’s new CEO Carol Bartz is making sure the mobile unit works more closely with other business units and is making mobile a bigger priori…
Carol Bartz hasn’t been shy about her lack of fondness for Yahoo’s products (she has even confessed to using Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Maps). So w…
Yahoo’s new CEO Carol Bartz has said that the company
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz is implementing a new management structure that she says in a post on Yahoo’s blog that aims to remove th…
Will Carol Bartz’s Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) make any big deal with MSFT, *AOL* or even *News Corp* ? The new CEO has indicated she is not as inter…
Given Kara Swisher’s direct connect to Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), if she’s reporting a major reorg is on the way, it’s worth watching. Then again,…
No one expected the first earnings release from new Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz to be dotted with smiley faces but they didn’t expect…
Some moments that stand out from the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Q4 call … Eight days into her new job, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is facing analysts, i…
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz started the
No one expected the first earnings release from new Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz to be dotted with smiley faces but they didn’t expect…
Carol Bartz was on board as CEO of Yahoo for all of 15 seconds before the assumptions and speculation began — particularly when it comes to…
Yahoo’s new CEO, Carol Bartz, will be paid an annual base salary of $1 million, according to an 8-K filing with the SEC. Bartz’s four-year c…
Anyone thinking that Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) would be making a quick deal with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) for its search business had better think ag…
Excerpted from GigaOM: New Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is a solid, proven manager who will bring some much-needed stability to the beleaguered…
With a new chief executive in the house, it is time for the beleaguered Internet company, Yahoo to make a bold move. Like buying fast growing online video service, Hulu. Sure it isn’t going to be cheap, but it will be money well spent and will add a new zing to the company in more ways than one.
Carol Bartz, whom Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has confirmed as its new CEO, will preside over a downsized, demasculated Yahoo in Europe, where Google…
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) analysts are largely divided on Carol Bartz. Here’s are snippets from initial analyst reports from companies that follow…
For many advertising and media executives, the name Carol Bartz has been a vague mystery up until her name surfaced as the lead candidate to…
Carol Bartz is in as *Yahoo* CEO effective immediately
It’s no secret that Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) stock was pummeled during Jerry Yang’s stint as CEO. But how has it fared since Yang announced he was…
Carol Bartz is in as *Yahoo* CEO effective immediately — and Sue Decker is leaving as president after being passed over for the job. Decker…
Update: It’s official: Carol Bartz as CEO is in and Sue Decker is out. More to come.
Original story: The Wall Street Journal is reporting t…
Yahoo says that Autodesk’s former Executive Chairman Carol Bartz is taking over as the CEO, a major step forward for the beleaguered Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company. I agree with the choice, but she has her work cut out for her. Here are seven reasons why Bartz is the one to fix Yahoo and clean up its mess.
Peter Chernin ruled himself out, ex Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) chief Arun Sarin said no, and former AOL (NYSE: TWX) CEO Jon Miller reportedly also…
