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Jerry Yang is out as CEO of Yahoo! after a less than memorable year.  Today, Carol Bartz is the new CEO.  Does she have what it takes to right the ship? Her past experience, while no indicator of future performance, shows that she made Audodesk a huge success.  When she… Continue Reading »

Being a CEO of a major brand on the net isn’t easy.  Getting the job is even harder, that is where Gadgetell comes in.  By entering our contest, you’ll earn our public recommendation to Yahoo!‘s board for the open CEO position.  Warm up those golf clubs, here is what we… Continue Reading »

2008 has not been kind to Yahoo.  It began with a buyout offer from Microsoft that they promptly screwed up, and was followed by the disintegration of their ad deal with Google and two rounds of layoffs.  Now it appears CEO Jerry Yang has finally had enough. Yang announced his… Continue Reading »

Things aren’t looking good for Yahoo right now.  Google has pulled out of the advertising deal that looked so promising for both companies citing potential antitrust issues.  Now, CEO Jerry Yang is saying that the Microsoft buyout was probably the best thing that could have happened.  This coming even after… Continue Reading »

In an attempt to lock into some kind of deal before their board re-election August 1st, Yahoo! is trying to resume talks with Time Warner about a possible merger with their internet arm AOL in a deal worth up to $10 billion.  These talks have come to the forefront after… Continue Reading »

You can expect louder product announcements from Yahoo! after the Deal that Didn’t Happen. Jerry Yang and Co. want to get the word out in a hurry about new features and services to boost the stock, quench shareholder anger and convince everyone that faith in its future is justified. Releasing… Continue Reading »

The Yahoo-Microsoft deal that wasn’t: a victory for emotion and memory. You saw it in Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang’s “OK, so now what?” post on his Yodel Anecdotal blog. And you really saw it in the comments to that post. Yang is now being spanked throughout the blogosphere… Continue Reading »

Yesterday, the mighty (or once mighty) Jerry Yang, CEO of Yahoo! wrote a blog post entitled, “Ok, so now what?”.  The post was what you would think a CEO might write about his actions under the Microsoft microscope and hopes for a bright future.  One of the fun thing about… Continue Reading »

InfoWorld is reporting that Yahoo has agreeed to Microsoft’s offer after haggling that went deep into the night.  The final price looks to be $2.6 Billion more than Microsofts original offer.  Steve Ballmer expects the next six months will be spent deciding how to redecorate Yahoo offices and how to… Continue Reading »

Thanks to the SEC, we got the view from a desk jobber at Yahoo! about all the sensational events taking place.  Microsoft has said they’ll trim the fat and eliminate jobs that are duplicated in a buy out scenario.  If I worked at Yahoo, I’d be a bit preoccupied too.In… Continue Reading »