After Yang, What Should Yahoo Do? [GigaOM]
gigaom.com 11/18/2008 — Jerry Yang, after a tumultuous reign as the chief executive officer of Yahoo(s YHOO), the company he co-founded with David Filo, announced today that he is stepping down from the top slot. The news was first reported by Kara Swisher and later ...

Ad Industry React: No Quick Fixes Expected For Post-Yang Yahoo
paidcontent.org 11/21/2008 — The news that Jerry Yang would be stepping aside as CEO of Yahoo ( NSDQ: YHOO ) cheered investors, but online ad industry execs aren't sure much has changed. And while shareholders would be thrilled by a Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT ) takeover, ...

Yahoo Layoffs Today May Not Be Last
bits.blogs.nytimes.com 12/10/2008 — Next year, Yahoo will close smaller offices in the United States and Asia. The biggest cut may be selling the search business to Microsoft.

Yahoo! Inc. - Press Release
yhoo.client.shareholder.com 12/15/2008 — Yahoo! Mail - Announced separately today, Yahoo! Mail's smarter inbox focuses on streamlining access to a user's most relevant and useful information. The new Welcome Page surfaces email messages, information and activity from people users care about ...

What Yahoo Must Do to Survive
readwriteweb.com 1/1/2009 — Internet search and advertising giant Yahoo! has been a household name almost from its inception in March of 1995. During the dot-com bubble, Yahoo! shares sold at a record $118.75 a share. Thirteen years later, Stanford alumni and Yahoo! co-founder ...

Another Day, Another Questionable Yahoo Story Rocks the Stock
kara.allthingsd.com 12/3/2008 — The stock seesaw for Yahoo–fueled this time by a story in The Wall Street Journal claiming that former AOL CEO Jon Miller was seriously buttonholing private equity firms for money to buy the Internet giant–continues. Yahoo shares ...

Yahoo! Inc. - Press Release
yhoo.client.shareholder.com 11/13/2008 — Yahoo! Breaks Audience Record and Wins 2008 Election! Consumers Make Yahoo! the #1 Destination for Major Events According to comScore Media Metrix SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov 13, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) today released new comScore ...

Yahoo suffers down time
inquisitr.com 12/3/2008 — Yahoo experienced downtime this afternoon with reports that the outage affected Yahoo services including Messenger and Yahoo.com. The Yahoo outage occurred at around 12:30pm PST Tuesday for at least 30 minutes possibly longer. Reports were mixed on location, so it may have been localized ...

We’re open. Have at it.
ycorpblog.com 10/28/2008 — Back in April, we rolled out our vision for a more open Yahoo! — with “open” defined as rewiring Yahoo! so we could 1) open our network to outside innovation, 2) unlock the power of your social relationships, and 3) mesh your Yahoo! experience ...

Lloyd Braun’s Not Going to Take It Anymore: “I Am Not an Umbrella Thief” (and He’s Not, Actually)
kara.allthingsd.com 12/19/2008 — There is was again–like the gnarly ghost of Christmas past–in the Los Angeles Times this week. But this time Lloyd Braun wasn’t going to take it anymore. The object of his ire was dropped right in the middle of a blog post on ...

Former Yahoo Tech Star Qi Lu Likely to Be Named MSFT's Digital Head by Next Week — Yahoo! Finance: Tech Ticker 12/4/2008
From All Things Digital, Dec. 4, 2008: Former Yahoo tech star Qi Lu is poised to take on the big job of being Microsoft’s top digital executive, according to several sources inside and outside the company.The appointment could be announced by Micros

Report: Former Yahoo exec to be Microsoft online chief — CNET News.com 12/4/2008
Former Yahoo search executive Qi Lu is expected to be named as head or co-head of Microsoft's online efforts, according to All Things D.

It's official: Qi Lu to head Microsoft's online effort — CNET News.com 12/4/2008
Microsoft officially names the former Yahoo search executive. With the appointment, top ad executive Brian McAndrews is leaving Microsoft

Does MapReduce Signal The End Of The Relational Era? — InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs 12/4/2008
Companies such as Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft that operate Internet-scale cloud services need to store and process massive data sets, such as search logs, Web content collected by crawlers, and click-streams collected from a variety of Web services. ...

Microsoft confirms Yahoo's Lu to run online services — Latest from Computerworld 12/4/2008
Microsoft confirmed Thursday that it has tapped former Yahoo executive Qi Lu to run its struggling Online Services Group.