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. Read more »
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. Read more at paidContent »
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? Read more at paidContent »
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. Read more at paidContent »
Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang has resigned from Yahoo’s board of directors and all his other positions with the company, effective Tuesday. Yang has been with Yahoo since he co-founded the company in 1995; his departure comes less than two weeks after Scott Thompson joined as CEO. Read more »
The markets didn’t punish Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) today when it announced it would appoint a payments technology specialist, Scott Thompson, as i… Read more at paidContent »
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. Read more »
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. Read more »
Last quarter’s big headline in social media and real-time technologies came from Google, which launched Google+, its first social tech product that seems legit. In the third quarter, things were back to normal. Google+ is still growing, but Facebook’s platform update dominated the news. And as Google+ passed 25 million users and won some raves from the digerati, its competition with Facebook intensified. Additional companies mentioned in this report include Zynga, Salesforce, BranchOut and Foursquare. For a full list of companies, and to read the full report, sign up for a free trial. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
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. Read more »
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has been no stranger to the apps rush that has swept through the mobile world, and now there are signs that it is looking… Read more at paidContent »
The ouster of CEO Carol Bartz last week punctuated a disappointing couple of years for Yahoo, and nowhere is that disappointment more glaring than in mobile. Yahoo’s presence has waned as the iPhone and Android have fueled a surge in mobile data consumption. Meanwhile, Yahoo’s traffic on ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
There has been much debate lately about where Yahoo has gone wrong and what it needs to do to right itself. Salim Ismail, formerly of Yahoo’s in-house incubator Brickhouse, believes that the company’s problems lie in its very structure. Read more »
The idea that AOL might want to merge with Yahoo — as a news report on Friday said it does — isn’t surprising, since the company has tried to arrange a similar deal at least twice. The only question is which metaphor for failure should apply. Read more »
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… Read more at paidContent »
Carol Bartz may be gone, but there’s another CEO who has also spent two years trying — and failing — to turn around a former web giant: namely, AOL chief executive Tim Armstrong. How much longer does he have before he gets the chop as well? Read more »
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… Read more at paidContent »
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… Read more at paidContent »
More than an hour after the news broke that Carol Bartz was out as CEO of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), the board finally has weighed in with details… Read more at paidContent »
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… Read more at paidContent »
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! Read more »
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? Read more »
Yahoo Mail is down for a sizable chunk of users and the company is working to fix the outage. This is another black mark against the company, which has seen its revenue slide, is selling off beloved web properties and is generally struggling to remain relevant. Read more »
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. Read more »
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. Read more »
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. Read more »
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. Read more »
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. Read more »
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 […] Read more »
