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Bartz Blows Into Town, Change Comes To Yahoo
Silicon Alley Insider —
... Kara Swisher, who obtained the memos and analyzes them here, also says that a major reorg will be announced next Wednesday. We'll hit that in the next post. ...
This week's Bartzometer: Sales vs Engineering
Coop's Corner —
... of a carpetbagger who should have remained at PepsiCo selling sugared water. It was even worse for Carly Fiorina who was widely despised by so many Hewlett Packard insiders. Like Sculley, she was portrayed as a lightweight. The code heads inside the company found her pretensions to be tech-savvy simply risible. I was reminded of all this as Bartz tries to revive Yahoo in what obviously is a hard assignment. Check out the text of Bartz's latest internal memo reposted by Kara over at AllThingsD . "First, I really want to congratulate Joanne Bradford's team for hosting and ...
Report: Yahoo management revamp next week?
ZDNet News - News Page One —
... , citing several sources inside and outside the Internet company, said the shift could be pushed out a week or two or rolled out in pieces. The blog cited a February 20 Bartz memo to employees , in which she said, "Get well-rested, because next week's a biggie." Yahoo officials declined to comment. Yahoo, the leading provider of online display advertising, has been under pressure for nearly a year as it held fruitless merger or partnership talks with Microsoft, Google, and Time Warner's AOL. During that time, Yahoo lost market share in search advertising, while display ...
Yahoo: Major Reorg Coming This Week? Also, Media Changes And APT Rollout Slowed Down
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... Kara also has a couple of memos from Bartz, including one from Feb. 13 with a comment that should thrill Rafat, who is a longtime proponent of Yahoo trimming its product list: "we are assembling a list of products that we are embarrassed about for various reasons so we can make the important decision as to whether we fix them or discontinue them." ...
Weekend Update 2.21.09
Digital Daily —
... mass desertion. The drama ended–for now–with CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s public apology and rollback of the changes. If you don’t speak Facebook, you’ll be relieved to know that BoomTown’s provided a handy translation. Also, Yahoo (YHOO) CEO “Hurricane Carol” Bartz found an appreciative audience in BoomTown for her Friday Memos, which discuss topics as closely interrelated as the company’s maybe-impending re-org and Saturday night chick flicks.
MediaMemo noted this week that on the Web, The New York ...
Yahoo Set To Announce Major Reorganization
WebProNews Feed —
... Expected this week Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz is expected to announce a major management reorganization sometime this week. Bartz sent a memo to employees on Friday in which she said, "Get well-rested, because next week's a biggie," All Things Digital reported . It's likely the reorganization announcement will come on Wednesday. It's rumored that Chief Technology Officer Aristotle Balogh may be put in charge of product strategy and management along with product technology. Hilary Schneider, who is head of Yahoo's advertising, publishing and audience groups in the U.S., ...
News Bits: Changes Coming at Yahoo This Week
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... , according to The Wall Street Journal . And chief technology officer Aristotle Balogh could also be named head of product. Further evidence that changes are coming this week: Bartz concludes her most recently leaked memo by saying charmingly/ominously, "My husband is out of town this weekend, so I'm looking forward to watching all the 'chick flicks' that he refuses to watch with me. I hope you all have a fun weekend. Get well-rested, because next week's a biggie." In other news: Yahoo's Media Unit ...
