There was Microsoft. Then Carl Ichan. Then the vindication at a shareholders meeting. Isn't it time for Yahoo to get a break? Apparently, not. It now turns out that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and chairman Roy Bostock did not get the resounding affirmation rates of of 85.4...
Yahoo went from Terry to Jerry, and some say we shouldn't expect any watershed change in performance as a result. Leading up to Yahoo's passionate shareholder meeting a couple weeks ago, a strong contingent of voices were calling for Terry Semel's exit from the chief post. But less than a...
CHARLIE ROSE, HOST: Welcome to the broadcast. Tonight a conversation with Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo. CHARLIE ROSE, HOST: Welcome to the broadcast. Tonight a conversation with Jerry Yang, co-founder of Yahoo.
AsiaInfo Services 05-19-2005 1pai GM Resigns CHINA, May 19, 2005 SinoCast via COMTEX -- 1pai.com.cn general manager Joseph Zheng has resigned, said Jerry Yang, founder of Yahoo!. Joseph Zheng himself also confirmed the news, and said his d...
Byline: Jeffrey Silva China is hot and on a roll, grabbing headlines everywhere, a great Asian economic juggernaut in the making. The United States is part of the Asian success story, buying billions more in products and services from China t...
LAS VEGAS--Computer and Internet royalty gathered in Las Vegas for the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association Wireless 2001 show, offering up opinions and advice about the comparatively new wireless industry that is becoming an inte LAS VEGAS--Computer and Internet royalty gathered in Las Vegas...
It almost seemed anti-climactic yesterday when Yahoo finally announced that Jerry Yang would be stepping down as CEO, after a disastrous 17-month tenure, just as soon as a replacement can be found. (The news stabilized the company's stock a bit, and it closed at $11.55/share, up 8.65 percent on the...
Michael Arrington submits: Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang sent the email below to all Yahoo’ers at 2:20 pm PST Tuesday, after earnings were announced. Besides being all lowercase, as usual, he lets everyone know that the company will be letting 10% of employees go to help save $400 million in...
Eric Savitz (Barron's) submits: SanDisk SNDK shares are sharply lower this morning after Samsung withdrew its offer to acquire the company. In a letter to SanDisk disclosed late yesterday, Samsung Electronics CEO Yoon Woo Lee said he is “disappointed” that the two companies could not reach an agreement....
Todd Sullivan submits: Not only has Yahoo's YHOO Jerry Yang cost investors a small fortune by his rebuttle of Microsoft's MSFT overtures, he has cost his own employees a bundle. They, like shareholders are less than pleased. From the WSJ: Now that Jerry Yang is planning to cut 10%...
Tech Confidential submits: Apparently, being belligerent/cantankerous/obstinate pays off. All Things Digital's Kara Swisher, one of Yahoo! Inc.'s YHOO sharpest critics, landed an exclusive interview with company CEO Jerry Yang. The interview covers a wide range of topics, but doesn't shed much light into two of the more pressing...
Susan Mernit submits: The news that Jerry Yang is stepping down as CEO of Yahoo! filled me with a mixture of delight and sadness. Delight, because anyone who drove their company's value into the ground like Yang did deserves to be removed (and, in truth, should quickly remove themselves);...
Seth Gilbert submits: Jerry Yang took the helm of Yahoo YHOO a year and half ago with a plan to restore the then struggling company he co-founded to its former glory. Amidst mounting pressure from major shareholders, he’ll step down with the task far from complete. Yahoo announced...
Joel West submits: The Chief Yahoo YHOO will no longer be Chief Executive. As announced in a memo to Yahoo employees and a public press release, Jerry Yang is stepping down as Yahoo CEO. Tomorrow’s WSJ article has the subhead “Co-Founder's Rebuff of Microsoft Haunted Tenure.”Despite my criticism...
Alex Filonov submits: Jerry Yang is resigning as CEO of Yahoo! This is the right move, Jerry had to go.I wanted to call this article "In Defense Of Jerry", but I can't. His position during talks with Microsoft is not defensible. As CEO, his duty to shareholders was to...
Michael Arrington submits: Expect Yahoo’s share price to jump tomorrow - Jerry Yang will be stepping down as CEO of the company, a job that he took on an interim basis in June 2007. Yang will return to his former role as Chief Yahoo, and will remain on the...
Sam Diaz submits: Yahoo’s YHOO stock is struggling to stay above $10, the ad deal with Google GOOG is in the history books and Microsoft MSFT has been quick to say “Not interested.” And CEO Jerry Yang has turned into the Internet whipping boy over it. But...
