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terry semel's Ghost Still Haunts Yahoo

The ghost of Terry Semel still hangs over Yahoo, as well as its financials. Semel, who joined Yahoo in 2001 after 24 years of rising through the ranks at Warner Bros. studios, steered the company through hard times, eventually driving the stock to a record high of...

Tags: Terry Semel, Yahoo! Inc., GAAP, Outsourcing, Financial Accounting, Finance, It Operations, Business Operations, Outsourcing & Subcontracting, Kevin Kelleher

Blog posts 2008-04-22

Will Yahoo Shareholders Say Sayonara Semel?

Yahoo! shareholders are likely to do some serious director-grilling at tomorrow's shareholder meeting after a year of dismal performance, and one singularly disgruntled shareholder will lead the charge. Eric Jackson, the president of an eponymous consulting firm, wants the company to pursue his "Plan B," which entails the ouster of...

Tags: Financial accounting, Corporate governance, Yahoo! shareholder, Andrew Hines, Yahoo! Inc., Terry Semel, shareholder

Blog posts 2007-06-11

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Investment firm urges Yahoo to take Microsoft offer

Ironfire Capital, an activist investment firm which last year helped organize shareholders to oust former Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, said Sunday it would pressure Yahoo to accept Microsoft's unsolicited $44 billion takeover offer. Yahoo's board is expected to reject that offer today, according to reports by the Associated...

Articles 2008-02-11

Acquiring Yahoo would boost Microsoft's Hollywood profile: search engine company had worked on media content, studio ties

WHAT could a Microsoft takeover of Yahoo Inc. mean for L.A.? Microsoft Corp. doesn't have a huge local presence, but Yahoo has 1,000 employees at the entertainment media operation in Santa Monica and another 1,000 at the company's search marketing business in Burbank. This means the...

Articles 2008-02-11

'Yahoosoft' shareholders should take money and run

MICROSOFT'S proposal to buy Yahoo offers tremendous benefits -- just not for Microsoft. The deal would do virtually nothing to address the fundamental problem faced by both companies: finding a way to effectively challenge Google's growing dominance of the Web. But it's...

Articles 2008-02-05

terry semel to Step Down from Yahoo! Board of Directors

Longtime Yahoo! Director Roy Bostock Appointed Non-Executive Chairman SUNNYVALE, Calif. -- Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today announced that Terry Semel, the Company's non-executive Chairman, will step down from the Board of Directors, effective January 31, 2008. Semel initiated discussions with the Board several months...

Articles 2008-02-01

Yahoo's dethroned chief executive leaves board of directors

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — Dethroned Yahoo chief executive Terry Semel left the struggling Internet firm's board of directors on Thursday. Semel's departure comes just two days after Yahoo revealed plans to lay off 1,000 employees as part of an effort to revitalize a company that analysts say strayed...

Articles 2008-01-31

Yahoo's dethroned chief executive leaves board of directors

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — Dethroned Yahoo chief executive Terry Semel left the struggling Internet firm's board of directors on Thursday. Semel's departure comes just two days after Yahoo revealed plans to lay off 1,000 employees as part of an effort to revitalize a company that analysts say strayed...

Articles 2008-01-31

Yahoo beats expectations; stock steps up after hours

It's an all-new Yahoo. The beleaguered Internet company, which has been struggling to catch up to red-hot Google, announced weaker earnings Tuesday, but investors didn't care. Yahoo beat analysts' expectations, and investors responded by pushing up the stock in after-hours trading. Executives from Yahoo...

Articles 2007-10-17

Yahoo upgrades search tool

SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo Inc. has retooled its online search engine to make it more helpful and engaging, joining an industrywide wave of improvements that so far haven't dented Google Inc.'s dominance. The Sunnyvale-based company regards the upgrade to be announced Tuesday as the most significant...

Articles 2007-10-02

Dozens of corporate executives shift from GOP to Demo

Dozens of corporate executives who backed President George W. Bush for re-election in 2004, including some of his top fund- raisers, are now helping Democrats running for president. John Mack, chief executive officer of Morgan Stanley, Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp., and Terry Semel, chairman of...

Articles 2007-09-24

Pipex boss Dubens floats [pound]100m private equity fund

Peter Dubens, the executive chairman of broadband provider Pipex, floated a [pound]100m private equity group on the Alternative Investment Market. Mr Dubens raised the money for the new fund, called Oakley Capital Investment, by calling on a base of wealthy investors in America including Louis Bacon,...

Articles 2007-08-04

Yahoo revenue up, profit falls 2%

Beleaguered Internet giant Yahoo said Tuesday that earnings fell 2% in the second quarter because of slowing growth in advertising revenue. The company, which replaced its CEO last month, also lowered its outlook for the third quarter. Yahoo, the first hugely successful website, has been overshadowed by Google,...

Articles 2007-07-18

Yahoo profits dip in second fiscal quarter

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) — Yahoo reported Tuesday that its profits dipped to 161 million dollars in the recent quarter as the Internet giant continues to lag behind rival Google when it comes to making money. Yahoo overall revenues for the quarter ending June 30, 2007 were 1.24 billion...

Articles 2007-07-17

Can Jerry Yang make it work the second time around?

JERRY YANG first tried to be chief executive of Yahoo Inc., the company he co-founded, 12 years ago. He lasted just a few weeks before hiring more seasoned management. Now the Sunnyvale-based company has decided the 38-year-old technologist doesn't need adult supervision anymore. ...

Articles 2007-07-02

Are CEOs overpaid?

Arecent Associated Press story breathlessly points out that the boss's pay has moved up into the heights of professional athletes and movie stars. This is not an original insight, but let it pass. But one wonders, why do people pay upwards of two grand to attend an HSM concert, oops,...

Articles 2007-07-01

Are CEOs Overpaid?

A recent Associated Press story breathlessly points out that the boss's pay has moved up into the heights of professional athletes and movie stars. This is not an original insight, but let it pass. But one wonders, why do people pay upwards of two grand to attend an HSM concert,...

Articles 2007-07-01

Are CEOs overpaid?(EDITOR'S NOTE)

Arecent Associated Press story breathlessly points out that the boss's pay has moved up into the heights of professional athletes and movie stars. This is not an original insight, but let it pass. But one wonders, why do people pay upwards of two grand to attend an...

Articles 2007-07-01

Less Hollywood, More Video; Semel's Stepping Down Won't Slow Yahoo's Net TV Play.(News)

Byline: Daisy Whitney In the end, Yahoo no longer needed Hollywood executives to make its television play on the Internet. In a management change that delighted Wall Street last week, Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, the former Warner Bros. co-chairman, stepped down and...

Articles 2007-06-25

Yin and Yang; Yahoo!(terry semel)

As its boss quits, struggling Yahoo! puts one of its founders in charge EVERY year Jerry Yang and David Filo, the founders of Yahoo!, by some measures the world's largest internet firm, dress up as sumo wrestlers and take each other on. (This...

Articles 2007-06-23