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Hires: Maggie Wilderotter for Yahoo CEO!
Hires: Maggie Wilderotter for Yahoo CEO!
Yahoo's botched shareholder vote doesn't just tell us that that investors are grumpy. In shareholders' eyes, some Yahoo board members are more equal than others. In the good camp, with disapproval ratings under 8 percent, even with the revised tallies: Activision CEO Bobby Kotick, who's ...
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The Real Dan Lyons bails on blogging
The Real Dan Lyons bails on blogging
thestandard.com — First it was Fake Steve Jobs, now it's Real Dan Lyons. A frustrated Dan Lyons told me... this afternoon that he is hanging up his personal blog at RealDanLyons.com after his Newsweek bosses made him yank a blog post where Lyons (rightfully) ... (more) The Real Dan Lyons bails on blogging
Is Yahoo done with search? [Exits]
Is Yahoo done with search? [Exits]
valleywag.com — Among the many windmills Jerry Yang tilted at in his brief career as Yahoo's CEO was his... devotion to Web search. It veered on an obsession for him. It played into his decision to resist Microsoft's offers to shower him with cash, first for his whole ... (more) Is Yahoo done with search? [Exits]
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Fire Yahoo's board! [Armchair General]
Gawker: valleywag — ... The rest of the board I'd recommend Yahoo's next CEO keep, at least for the time being. Frank Biondi and John Chapple are too new to pass judgment on; venture capitalist Eric Hippeau and Hewlett-Packard executive Vyomesh Joshi actually have knowledge of the marketplace that's valuable to Yahoo; and telecom exec Maggie Wilderotter is a credible candidate to step in as Yahoo's CEO, should the board choose one of its own. ...

Everyone's Pick For Yahoo CEO
Silicon Alley Insider — ... Writes Valleywag's Owen Thomas: "[Frontier CEO Maggie Wilderotter] has several pluses: She's actually been a Silicon Valley CEO, unlike Yang, previous to his current run in the position, and Decker, who's long aspired to a top job somewhere, but now looks farther than ever from getting it. With media, advertising, computing, and telecommunications merging into a single business, it strikes me that most of Yahoo's board and management are ill-equipped for the transition. Not Wilderotter, who's worked for Microsoft and AT&T; and run Wink Communications, an interactive-TV ...

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