...a takeover bid from Microsoft only to subsequently ask that merger talks resume, said he is stepping down. Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang listened to a question at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008. In an memorandum sent to the company’s...
...fortune to personally buy more Yahoo stock even though he already owns 54.1 million shares, or 3.9 percent of the company. "Jerry Yang really needs to put his money where his mouth is," Kessler said. "If he really thinks Yahoo is worth $37 (per share), then...
...firm Yahoo is set to replace co-founder Jerry Yang ©AFP/File - Paul J. Richards NEW YORK (AFP) - Internet firm Yahoo is replacing its CEO Jerry Yang, the company has said in a statement. The pioneering Internet company announced Monday that its board of directors...
... This is Journalism? by normavctam February 16, 2008 6:18 PM PST Not sure I'd call this content-free slam on Jerry Yang journalism. Somebody at C|Net probably owns a lot of Yahoo stock, and like others is only concerned with their own short-term...
...“Do you let the fox in the henhouse?” So asked Jerry Yang, Yahoo’s co-founder and chief executive, as we chatted for more than an hour one afternoon last week at Allen & Company’s annual conference here. The fox in question, of course, is Carl Icahn, the...
...looking for the anti-Jerry. (END) Copyright (c) 2008 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. For 17 months, co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang tried to turn around Yahoo with a simple management mantra: rally senior executives to put aside their differences and do what's...
...anything else with Yang. And now, Jerry Yang is nothing more than a lame duck. As public opinion moves to Icahn's side, Jerry Yang and the rest of the board are floating away with no prospect of survival. With Microsoft officially done talking with this board...
...CEO while Yahoo made many of those decisions, he went along for the ride. And that's why the loyalists who "want to give Jerry one more chance" are living in the past. I know Bill Gates. I cover Bill Gates. And Jerry Yang, sad to say, is no Bill Gates. ...
...CEO Jerry Yang’s name popped in a number of headlines today, sparked by a rumor that his job may be on the line following Google’s announcement that it was withdrawing from an ad deal with Yahoo this morning. Yahoo, of course, is denying the rumor. And then,...
...Yeah. it’s starting to feel a little like that around here… Jerry: Yup, I should have ordered the tuna. Seriously though, Jerry Yang is a brilliant man. I love the fact that he is taking such as strong stand to hold on tho the company help help built. I have...