Kara Swisher in News on July 11, 2011 at 10:31 am PT
In the ongoing talent drain at Yahoo, longtime Yahoo search veteran Chi-Chao Chang is the next to swirl away from the Internet giant.
Chang was VP and GM of the global search business at Yahoo and has been at the company since 1999.
More importantly, he has been a key exec in Yahoo’s troubled search alliance with Microsoft.
Arik Hesseldahl in Enterprise on April 27, 2011 at 1:30 pm PT
The cloud-based creator of a social enterprise development platform is led by Alfred Chuang, the A in BEA Systems.
Kara Swisher in News on June 26, 2008 at 9:43 am PT
As BoomTown reported last night, the Yahoo reorganization will be unveiled later this morning, with the slate of execs that this column outlined last week in its gory–oops, I mean, glorious–detail.
Sources said a more substantial public announcement has been pushed by Yahoo’s board–apparently, an internal email to employees was considered too–to show Yahoo’s new team and that the company still has a strong bench, despite a lot of exec departures of late.
Some more news: Yahoo will name Scott Dietzen to take over the job of SVP Brad Garlinghouse, running all communications and community properties and products under Patel.
Kara Swisher in News on May 13, 2008 at 4:06 pm PT
If Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang thought Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was scary, meet persnickety investor Carl Icahn.
According to CNBC, which was doubtlessly leaked the threat by the clever billionaire to test the waters, he has bought as much as 50 million shares in the troubled Internet company as part of a potential proxy fight.
John Paczkowski in Social on December 31, 2007 at 12:02 am PT
Sick to death of year-end look back/look forward pieces, yet? Well here’s another: Digital Daily’s abridged guide to the year in tech news–a fond reminiscence of what was, and our First Annual Year-End List For Year-End List Haters.
John Paczkowski in Social on December 31, 2007 at 12:02 am PT
Sick to death of year-end look back/look forward pieces, yet? Well here’s another: Digital Daily’s abridged guide to the year in tech news–a fond reminiscence of what was, and our First Annual Year-End List For Year-End List Haters.
John Paczkowski in News on November 15, 2007 at 12:49 am PT
Turns out William Klein, BEA Systems’ vice-president of business planning and development, was sorely mistaken when he said “BEA is worth substantially more to Oracle, to others and, importantly, to our shareholders than the price” Oracle offered for it. Certainly, that’s the opinion of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who says any future Oracle takeover bid [...]
John Paczkowski in News on November 15, 2007 at 12:49 am PT
Turns out William Klein, BEA Systems’ vice-president of business planning and development, was sorely mistaken when he said “BEA is worth substantially more to Oracle, to others and, importantly, to our shareholders than the price” Oracle offered for it. Certainly, that’s the opinion of Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, who says any future Oracle takeover bid [...]