kara.allthingsd.com - 12/3/2008
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Now let’s return from the land of fatuous deal schemes and half-baked plots to buy Yahoo and get to the most critical issue facing its board right now: Finding a new CEO to replace outgoing leader Jerry Yang.
According to numerous sources inside and outside the company BoomTown has ...
amlawdaily.typepad.com - 12/3/2008
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December 2, 2008 1:00 PM Hogan's Litvack Discusses
Google/Yahoo Posted by Nate Raymond Litvack Google Inc. and...
Yahoo! Inc. called off their joint advertising agreement just three hours before the Department of Justice planned to file antitrust charges ...
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Hogan's Litvack Discusses Google/Yahoo
online.wsj.com - 12/2/2008
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online.wsj.com —
Former AOL Chief Executive Jonathan Miller is trying
to raise money to purchase a portion or all...
of Yahoo Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. Miller has been talking to private equity investors and sovereign wealth funds for ...
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Former AOL Chief Seeks Funds for Yahoo Deal
microsoft.com - 12/4/2008
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microsoft.com —
Yahoo! veteran to oversee Internet offerings for consumers,
advertisers and publishers. REDMOND, Wash. — Dec. 4, 2008...
— Microsoft Corp. today announced that Dr. Qi Lu will join the company as president of the Online Services Group. Dr. Lu will lead ...
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Microsoft Appoints Dr. Qi Lu to Run Online Services ...
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Yahoo headlines: What’s fact and what’s rumor?
Between the Lines —
... to me during a secret meeting in a parking garage at 3 a.m.) Kara Swisher, who writes the Boomtown blog for the WSJ’s All Things Digital, only posted the news about Jerry Yang stepping down as CEO about 10 minutes before the company announced it - and these days, she seems to be the most connected to Yahoo insiders. And while I tend to think of Swisher as one of the more credible news sources on this story, I must admit that I get a twitch when the second sentence of her blog post - Yahoo Board Casts About for New CEO: No Committee, Six Criteria and AOL Merger-Ready! - begins ...
Yahoo's Bostock Wants A CEO Before 2009 (YHOO)
Silicon Alley Insider —
... Yahoo (YHOO) chairman Roy Bostock says the company will have a new CEO before the end of the year, sources tell Kara Swisher. Perhaps someone should remind Roy that's only four weeks away and that he better get cracking. ...
Report: Yahoo's Bostock Wants A CEO Before 2009 (YHOO)
Silicon Alley Insider —
... Yahoo (YHOO) chairman Roy Bostock says the company will have a new CEO before the end of the year, sources tell Kara Swisher. Perhaps someone should remind Roy that's only four weeks away and that he better get cracking. ...
Yahoo Could Merge With AOL Without A New CEO (YHOO)
Silicon Alley Insider —
... "Bostock has intimated that Yahoo was ready to do a deal at any time in the next week or so to merge with AOL-with or without a new CEO in place," Kara Swisher reports. ...
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portfolio.com 12/4/2008 — Sam Gustin writes : It's no secret that former AOL chief executive Jonathan Miller wants a crack at running Yahoo, the beleaguered Web giant. He was set to join the company's board a few months ago as part of Carl Icahn's slate, before Time Warner ...
Yahoo Earnings: What To Expect When You’re Not Expecting (Much)
kara.allthingsd.com 10/21/2008 —
Here’s a bright spot in Yahoo’s third-quarter earnings announcement later today: Sources told BoomTown that the company will not announce a specific number of layoffs tomorrow, although it will give an overall percentage of employees ...
Yahoo! Inc. - Press Release
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