mashable.com - 11/6/2008
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Talk about a 180. Yahoo’s CEO Jerry Yang spoke at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco; him and his company are tired, battered and bruised. But his message is now - suddenly, and amazingly - clear: Yahoo wants to be bought by Microsoft .
His exact words?
“To this day, I have to ...
yhoo.client.shareholder.com - 11/5/2008
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Jerry Yang Jerry Yang CEO and Chief Yahoo
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gigaom.com - 11/6/2008
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In hindsight, we are all geniuses or simpletons
— it’s just a matter of how much time...
we give history to ferment. At this point, it doesn’t look like history will be kind to Jerry Yang, who has had the unenviable job of ...
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Yahoo’s Yang Has No Regrets — He Should [GigaOM]
techcrunch.com - 11/6/2008
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Six months ago Jerry Yang took the stage
at the D Conference to talk about the state...
of his business. His painted a picture of a Yahoo that was spinning in circles with no clear future. Fast forward six months and nothing has changed. Except ...
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Yahoo: Poor, Alone and Sad
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Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang does 180, basically slaps Microsoft in the face
Boy Genius Report —
... in a proposed acquisition. At that time, Yahoo did everything it could to squash the deal short of literally driving to Washington and setting fire to Bill Gates’ cat. Now that hindsight is 20/20 and that $44.6 billion is looking pretty damn good, Yang starts pulling these shenanigans in telling the world that he is, and was, all for an acquisition. If Carl Icahn can survive reading this news without having a stroke or hiring a hitman, it’ll be a small miracle.
[Via Mashable]
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Maybe it’s just time to stick a fork in Yahoo
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