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New Prospect for Yahoo CEO: Carol Bartz
New Prospect for Yahoo CEO: Carol Bartz
How did BoomTown forget former Autodesk exec Carol Bartz for Yahoo CEO? Yahoo certainly hasn’t. According to several sources familiar with the Yahoo (YHOO) search for a new leader to replace Co-Founder Jerry Yang, the company is looking hard at the longtime and high-profile Silicon ...
Yahoo to Name Bartz as CEO
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Carol Bartz For Yahoo CEO? Who Knows? (YHOO)
Silicon Alley InsiderKara Swisher floats another name for Yahoo CEO: former Autodesk chairman, president and CEO Carol Bartz. Many I have spoken to inside and outside of Yahoo with knowledge of situation said the company is winnowing down its list to a few internal and external candidates and Bartz is a favorite. Bartz is certainly an experienced and very well-regarded tech exec, with the talent to turn things around. She served as chairman, president and CEO for 14 years at the San Rafael, Calif.-based company that makes design software. While there, Bartz presided ...

Another candidate for Yahoo's CEO post
SFGate: The Technology Chronicles — Another candidate for Yahoo's CEO post Add another name to the list of prospective Yahoo CEOs - Carol Bartz, the former CEO of Autodesk. She's one of the favorites of the Sunnyvale Web portal's board, according to a report on the AllThingsD blog. To recap, Yahoo is on the hunt for a new leader after its embattled CEO, Jerry Yang, said he would step down. The names of several candidates have surfaced during the search. Bartz, 60, led ...

Carol Bartz expected to be named CEO of Yahoo! (YHOO)
BloggingStocks — ... Industry watchers have considered Bartz a leading contender for the CEO spot left vacated by co-founder Jerry Yang for a while now. But filling the job proved contentious... and difficult. Seems nobody wanted the task of trying to turn around the troubled company's fortunes. While it enjoys rich content and traffic, this early internet player has also been beset by internal and external troubles for years. Much of its executive and technical talent ...

Yahoo Names New CEO: Carol Bartz from Autodesk
Mashable! — ... The appointment of Bartz has been rumored since last week, when Kara Swisher reported that the exec was on the short-list of candidates. ...

Yahoo's New CEO is Carol Bartz
John Battelle's Searchblog — Not a lot of media experience in this choice, reported here by the WSJ. Kara had speculated on this previously. ...

Carol Bartz expected to be named CEO of Yahoo! (YHOO)
BloggingStocks — ... Industry watchers have considered Bartz a leading contender for the CEO spot left vacated by co-founder Jerry Yang for a while now. But filling the job proved contentious... and difficult. Seems nobody wanted the task of trying to turn around the troubled company's fortunes. While it enjoys rich content and traffic, this early internet player has also been beset by internal and external troubles for years. Much of its executive and technical talent ...

Yahoo Will Get New CEO - Carol Bartz - Good Choice - Lets See Some Bold Moves
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Yang is being replaced at Yahoo, so is a Microsoft deal due?
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — ... , but we should give a hat-tip to Kara Swisher at Boom Tow on All Things D, who was first to float the idea last Wednesday in a story: New Prospect for Yahoo CEO: Carol Bartz (and no, she hasn't let us forget that). ...

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