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- Microsoft, Alibaba.com Execs Join Yahoo in Noticeable Share Dumps
- In recently criticizing Yahoo!'s YHOO insiders for dumping $233mm in stock over the last 2 years, when they've only bought $103k in shares, I would be remiss if I also didn't call out 2 other executives for big share dumps last week: Craig Mundie, head of research and strategy for...
- External links 2009-09-15
- Why Did Yahoo's Carol Bartz Use Shareholders' Money to Pay Taxes?
- Bobbie Johnson of the Guardian wrote a balanced post on the topic of Carol Bartz's $10mm Year One signing bonus. I think the crux of it was the point he made about Bartz’ decision to use Yahoo YHOO shareholders’ money to pay her tax bill instead...
- External links 2009-09-12
- Five Conclusions on What Carol Bartz Had to Say About Selling Shares
- Carol Bartz, CEO of Yahoo! YHOO, appeared on CNBC's Squawk Box Thursday morning talking about their search deal with Microsoft, that she would've taken the MSFT buyout offer at $33 or $34 ("you think I'm stupid?"), their investment in Alibaba (ALBCF.PK), and the analysis I did last week which showed...
- External links 2009-09-11
- Yahoo! Insiders Should Be Shown the Door Out
- Does a leopard change its spots? Not at Yahoo! YHOO; every director and officer there seems to have a congenital affliction that is forcing them to withdraw as much compensation as they can from the shareholders like a personal ATM.The company's always had a laissez-faire approach to compensation. A techie...
- External links 2009-09-09
- Yahoo's Bartz on the Right Track
- Yahoo! YHOO holds its annual meeting Thursday and, unlike the previous two meetings, I'm not attending this year. It's not that I think the company is doing such a great job; it's that I sold all my shares in Yahoo! last September after being dismayed by the poor decisions being...
- External links 2009-06-25
- Yahoo! CEO Bartz Has a Lot of Explaining to Do
- Yahoo! YHOO CEO Carol Bartz didn't get the "boatloads of cash" for her shareholders from Microsoft MSFT as she vowed in May, but she'll take home a boatload of cash herself out of Yahoo! for her work in 2009.A review of her total compensation plan reveals that Bartz is on...
- External links 2009-09-18
- Are Yahoo's Charitable Donations Right and Proper?
- If I told you that Yahoo! YHOO had made a charitable contribution to an American University in the last year, which one would you guess? Stanford University, where Jerry and David dreamed up the company in the computer labs more than a decade ago? Cal? San Jose State? Try Duke....
- External links 2009-09-23
- Facebook's Dual Class Shares: Another Reason to Avoid This Company
- Facebook announced last week before the Thanksgiving holiday that it has created a dual-class share structure. If you are an existing shareholder, your shares now have 10 times the voting power of any subsequently issued shares. It's widely viewed as a precursor move to holding an IPO in the...
- External links 2009-12-02
- Icahn Should Give Up Running Other People's Money
- After a string of disastrous investments and his departure from Yahoo!'s YHOO board last Friday, it's time for Carl Icahn to hang it up running other people's money. Here's why. Icahn's decision to leave the Yahoo! board comes a year after mounting a costly and distracting proxy contest to get...
- External links 2009-10-28
- Yahoo! CEO Carol Bartz's Continued Share Dumps Reflect Poorly on Leadership
- As predicted last month, when I first raised this issue, Yahoo! YHOO disclosed late Friday that Carol Bartz had sold another $1.3 million of Yahoo! stock at the end of September. This brings her total Yahoo! share sales for the year to $3.3 million.When I first brought up this...
- External links 2009-10-07
- While eBay Burned, Whitman Fiddled
- I've recently criticized Yahoo!'s YHOO Carol Bartz and Hewlett-Packard's HPQ Mark Hurd for excessive pay and perks, given their companies' performances. My focus on Silicon Valley gluttony would be incomplete without discussing the perks at eBay EBAY. by Eric Jackson
- External links 2009-10-01
- eBay's Ticker Might Be 'PYPL' in Three Years
- Christa Quarles, the Thomas Weisel Partners analyst who covers eBay EBAY, had a throwaway line about last week's earnings from the auction and payment company: "We like to joke that they are changing the ticker symbol to PYPL." She's referring to the large and growing part of PayPal within the...
- External links 2009-04-28
- Key Assumption for GeoEye: Forward Earnings
- I've written several times in TheStreet.com and RealMoney.com about GeoEye GEOY. It's been a long holding of mine since March of 2008 and it's been a big disappointment overall. It sells its Earth imagery take from its satellites to the US government, foreign governments and to commercial customers including Google...
- External links 2009-04-27
- Yahoo Will Be a Good Long, Down the Road
- I've had a love-hate relationship with Yahoo! YHOO for nearly three years now. I led an activist campaign against the company in 2007 encouraging it to make a number of changes from a new CEO to revamping the board to restructuring and simplifying the operations to better take advantage of...
- External links 2009-04-23
- Google Shareholders Should Appreciate CFO Pichette's Cost Cutting Measures
- Google's GOOG investors quickly cheered Tuesday's earnings out of the gate in the after-hours, bidding the shares up to $410 -- they've since fallen back to $385. We'll see what they do in the broader session.The reason for the fall back in share price? After initial investor euphoria over a...
- External links 2009-04-23
- Yahoo: Time to Reboot the Board
- There's a great post from Kara Swisher this morning, which tips the cap to Sue Decker for stepping down from Yahoo YHOO now and also calling for Roy Bostock to do the same. I want to second her sentiments.Chairman Roy Bostock has repeatedly blown off criticisms of his botched handling...
- External links 2009-01-14
- TheStreet.com: Reasons Behind Yahoo's Four-Year Slump
- The press has shown little mercy in criticizing Yahoo! YHOO this year. And deservedly so. The four reasons most often cited for the Internet company's missteps over the last four years have namely been the people at the top: by Eric Jackson
- External links 2008-12-22
- Why Sue Decker Will Be Yahoo's Next CEO
- Jerry Yang still bleeds purple, but he announced Monday night that he'll no longer do so in the CEO cubicle.His agonizing 16-month tenure as CEO of Yahoo! YHOO has been marked by intense shareholder upset over his rebuffing Microsoft's MSFT offer to buy his company at triple its current valuation,...
- External links 2008-11-19
- Ballmer Needs to Live Up to the Hype
- Following Tuesday's disappointing Yahoo! YHOO (Cramer on YHOO - Stock Picks) earnings, we'll see many press articles Wednesday congratulating Microsoft MSFT (Cramer on MSFT - Stock Picks) CEO Steve Ballmer for walking away from the $31-a-share deal to acquire Yahoo! a few months back. Jerry Yang and his board will...
- External links 2008-10-22
Additional Resources
- Yahoo Activist: 'I Give Up'
- For nearly two years, I've been engaged in an activist campaign to aimed at improving the performance of Yahoo YHOO. No more. I sold my fund's stake last month. The risk/reward ratio of continuing to hold the stock had become too high.When I started my activism with Yahoo, I was...
- External links 2008-10-13
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