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kara.allthingsd.com - 11/18/2008

Yahoo’s Peter (Chernin) Principle–And Other CEO Choices

— kara.allthingsd.com — Obviously, the dream CEO for Yahoo is News Corp. COO Peter Chernin. And, no surprise, he is... the No. 1 choice of most inside and outside Yahoo (YHOO), in the wake of the news late yesterday that its current CEO and Co-Founder Jerry Yang is stepping ... (more) Yahoo’s Peter (Chernin) Principle–And Other CEO Choices

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thestandard.com - 11/18/2008

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

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gigaom.com - 11/18/2008

After Yang, What Should Yahoo Do? [GigaOM]

— gigaom.com — 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 ... (more) After Yang, What Should Yahoo Do? [GigaOM]

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Yang To His Critics: “I Will Always Bleed Purple”
TechCrunch — Jerry Yang just put up a blog post on his reasons for stepping down as CEO of Yahoo. In it, he highlights the successes of the past 18 months. Yahoo is now “rewired,” the new ad platform has been launched “that we think will transform how ads are bought and sold online,” and Yahoo remains “first or second in more than 20 product categories.” And he ends with the promise “that I will always bleed purple.” No matter what his critics might say. The post is reproduced below in its ...

Yang’s fairwell Yahoo Yodel
p2pnet news — ... you’d think it’s all been peaches and cream, lately. But in fact, what with serious human rights problems in China where Yahoo was directly implicated in the long-term jailing of cyber-dissidents, and hostile takeover attempts by Microsoft, things have been a little tense. Now, “As you’ve no doubt already read, I’ve decided that I will step down from my role as Chief Executive Officer after my successor has been selected,” Yang blogs today, going on »»» Ever since founding Yahoo! with ...

Yahoo seeks new prince to take the purple reins
GMSV — ... in early trading reflected a consensus that this was a step that had to be taken before anything else could happen, and a later partial retreat showed those hopes tempered by the reality of the challenges that still face Yang’s successor. Yang announced his intent to return to his roles as Chief Yahoo and director in ...

Yang's resignation post returns error 999 [Yahoo]
Gawker: valleywag — ... Can it get any dumber? Jerry Yang's post on Yahoo's corporate blog, "Stepping down," is throwing me an error message that suggests Yahoo has banned the IP address of my Sprint wireless Internet card, but only for their corporate blog. And yet the post is visible on the ...

Jerry Yang’s Goodbye Blog Experiencing Errors
The Inquisitr » Technology — In what could not be a more fitting and comedic final twist, Jerry Yang’s newly posted blog explaining his resignation as Yahoo CEO is experiencing some sort of non-specific error. Navigating to the page at Yahoo’s “Yodel Anecdotal” site returns a fairly frequent “error 999,” which seems to be Yahoo’s generalized “catch-all” error. As of the time of this posting, I get the error about half of the time. The page loads normally the other half. ...

Jerry Yang Addresses Yahoo! Resignation News
AppScout — ... Of course it comes as no surprise to anyone who has been following the Yahoo! saga for the past year, but the company's head just confirmed today's new of his resignation via Yahoo's Yodel Anecdotal blog. Yang, who helped found the company 13 years ago, will be leaving his post once the board has selected a successor. ...

10 Pieces of Unsolicited, Unsophisticated Advice for Yahoo
Technologizer — ... .) Bottom line: I still feel proprietary about Yahoo and feel a twinge of personal distress when when it goes through bad times like its CEO woes and the ...