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Yahoo! Inc. - Press Release
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 Media Metrix figures showing that Yahoo! News ...
Yahoo! Inc. - Press Release
yhoo.client.shareholder.com — Yahoo! Conducting Search for New CEO Co-Founder Jerry Yang to Step Down Following Appointment of New CEO and Return to Former Role as Chief Yahoo! and Board Member SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov 17, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO) today ... (more) Yahoo! Inc. - Press Release
Yahoo’s Jerry Yang to Step Down, As a Search for New CEO Commences
Yahoo’s Jerry Yang to Step Down, As a Search for New CEO Commences
kara.allthingsd.com — Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang will step down from his job as CEO, said sources close to the company, as soon as the board finds a replacement for him, in what sources close to the situation call a joint decision by him and the company’s directors.  ... (more) Yahoo’s Jerry Yang to Step Down, As a Search for New CEO ...
Yahoo’s Peter (Chernin) Principle–And Other CEO Choices
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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Getting it right on Election night
Yodel Anecdotal — ... and international newspapers, wires, and broadcast networks. But on Election Night, we took on a more pronounced mandate as news filter. For example, if a network called a critical swing state, we would wait until at least another network called the state before announcing the news in our breaking news blog and breaking news bar. After all, we were serving what turned out to a record-breaking audience — today, comScore confirmed that we attracted 7.5 million people, the largest single day of traffic in online news history, surpassing CNN.com, MSNBC.com, ...

Why Yahoo News Was Number One on Election Night
WebProNews Feed — ... for other sources making up the top five: - Yahoo! News: 7.6 million unique users, 259,244,751 total page views - MSNBC: 6.8 million unique users, 232,076,565 total page views - CNN.com: 6.3 million unique users, 134,573,839 total page views - AOL News: 2.5 million unique users, 45,122,501 total page views - FoxNews.com:1.9 million unique users, 31,856,733 total page views So what made so many people turn to Yahoo News on Election day over other sources? Well, Yahoo provides a list of the things they were doing, so you can get a better picture if you were not one of the ...

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