Comments on: Yahoo: Old Wine, Old Label

By: Asleep At The Wheel: The Yahoo Board - GigaOM

Asleep At The Wheel: The Yahoo Board - GigaOM — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:51:38 +0000

[...] of it? Instead they decided to reward him with $71 million, much to the chagrin of the investors, before showing him the door. As one talented executive (and engineer) after another left the company, looking to go chase [...]

By: RGB Effects

RGB Effects — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 17:11:29 +0000

Who is Buying Yahoo? Handicapping 5 likely suitors

Written by Kevin Kelleher At least Yahoo can’t complain this week about Google grabbing all the headlines.

By: GigaOM Semel exits masks yet another bad quarter at Yahoo «

GigaOM Semel exits masks yet another bad quarter at Yahoo « — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 15:17:19 +0000

[...] by Om Malik Tuesday, June 19, 2007 at 8:16 AM PT | No comments Terry Semel-Sue Decker-Jerry Yang drama had us all distracted from the fact that Yahoo (YHOO) is going to report yet another bad [...]

By: Venture Itch

Venture Itch — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 12:17:45 +0000

Good riddance!

Besides acquisitions of Flickr and Del.icio.us and success of Yahoo Answers, Yahoo has botched everything it touched in recent years.

By: EKS

EKS — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:20:27 +0000

"Why Yang, who Semel was brought into replace after he and co-founder David Filo let the company run adrift?"

Not quite. TK and Jeff Mallett ran Y! from 1995 until when Semel came in. TK took it public and managed the street, Jeff managed the company as COO.

By: JFSN

JFSN — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:40:23 +0000

Perhaps the last of the media integration shills has finally left the building. Hey, Terry, I hear that Steve Case is looking for someone who still remembers how to speak 1999 jargon. You know: collaboration; leverage; clicks; eyeballs; paradigm shifts; new economy. Another member of the industry of distraction bites the dust. So long.

By: Trevor F. Smith

Trevor F. Smith — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 10:25:03 +0000

"A Yahoo! that better monetizes its audience."

Perhaps someone should tell Yang that the people formerly known as the audience don't like to be monetized.

By: Kevin Kelleher

Kevin Kelleher — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:29:12 +0000

Ivan, good point regarding Koogle. But neither does Yang (nor Filo) have experience running a $6 billion company.

SSDJ, Interesting anecdote. Thanks.

By: John

John — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:14:40 +0000

"Instead, we have corny PR." - How long have you been a reporter / blogger for? Come on - Corporate America never or rarely speaks the plain truth! It would be naive to think otherwise.

I think we are being nostalgic about the Internet without a Yahoo! Is the world any worse now that Netscape is gone...? This is the tech / internet field. Shift happens.

By: Ivan Pope

Ivan Pope — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 07:04:55 +0000

'Why Yang, who Semel was brought into replace after he and co-founder David Filo let the company run adrift?' You seem to have missed Tim Koogle who actually ran Yahoo! for the first six or seven years. Yang and Filo never actually ran Yahoo! so they can't really be accused of letting it run adrift before Semel got in. Yang is now CEO for the first time, although he is a founder.