The Tribune Co. officially emerged from bankruptcy Monday with a new board including former Yahoo exec Ross Levinsohn and former Disney exec Peter Murphy. The company plans to sell off its 23 television stations, eight daily newspapers and stakes in websites like CareerBuilder.com. Read more at paidContent »
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Media head Ross Levinsohn is leaving Yahoo after being passed over for CEO in favor of Marissa Mayer. The Google vet’s hiring despite Levinsohn’s solid performance as interim CEO signaled a choice of tech over media. Where will he go and who stays from his team? Read more at paidContent »
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 »
Listening to interim CEO Ross Levinsohn talk about a road map he may not be there to chart or navigate rang a little hollow at Thursday’s Yahoo annual meeting. Levinsohn may be the frontrunner but the board isn’t ready to sign off yet. Read more at paidContent »
The Yahoo board seems determined to make who will be CEO the story, instead of what the CEO will do or what the digital media company is accomplishing. An announcement could come as early as this morning. We can only hope. Read more at paidContent »
Yahoo and Facebook announcing that they will avoid the patent version of the Hundred Years’ War should be enough to seal the deal for interim CEO Ross Levinsohn, credited with the change in strategy, to get the “i” word removed from his title. Will it be? Read more at paidContent »
As Yahoo’s July 12th annual meeting approaches, it looks like the latest search for a CEO might be ending soon. Will the new board stick with interim CEO Ross Levinsohn, who has been unwinding the last re-org, or go outside? Read more at paidContent »
The appointment of Ross Levinsohn as CEO is a sign Yahoo wants to focus on media as the core of its rebirth, but does the company have what it takes to succeed as a new-media entity? There are plenty of reasons to be skeptical. Read more »
Ross Levinsohn has a lot of new responsibilities as interim CEO of Yahoo but one of the most important roles is as salesman-in-chief. He not only has to pitch the media company to advertisers — he has to sell the image of what Yahoo does right. 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 »
Last week, new Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson cut 14 percent of his workforce. This week, he explains how those who are left fit into his plans to reshape the company. Read more at paidContent »
Last week Yahoo announced it had hired Scott Thompson, currently the president of eBay’s PayPal business, as its new CEO. Thompson has product and technology cred, which means Yahoo should be fixable. With that in mind, here’s what he should do to get Yahoo growing again ... Read more at GigaOM Pro »
A world-weary Ross Levinsohn of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) appears to be getting used to the idea of an executive circus taking place over his head.… Read more at paidContent »
Given the recent news of Carol Bartz’s departure as CEO, a Q&A with EVP of Americas Ross Levinsohn couldn’t have come at a more opportune mo… Read more at paidContent »
With all the attention on Groupon, HP (NYSE: HPQ), AOL (NYSE: AOL) and Netflix (NSDQ: NFLX), it might have been a good idea for Yahoo (NSDQ:… Read more at paidContent »
Between having its CEO unceremoniously ousted by the board and current talk of a major ad alliance with AOL (NYSE: AOL) and Microsoft (NSDQ:… 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 »
As evening began at the NewTeeVee conference in San Francisco today, some big money movers weighed in on the video industry. Allen Delattre, managing director of Electronics and High Technology at Accenture, moderated a panel discussion featuring a number of heavy-hitters from the venture capital community. […] Read more »
The Sunday Times of UK reports (more like speculates) that Microsoft is going to buy Yahoo’s search business for $20 billion in a very complex transaction. The Sunday Times claims that Jonathan Miller, formerly chief executive of AOL, and Ross Levinsohn, a former president of Fox […] Read more »
