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Yahoo Loses Global Search Business Head Chi-Chao Chang

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.

One Last Yahoo Reorg Missive: Bartz Tells Employees What She Already Said. Again.

Kara Swisher in News on February 26, 2009 at 4:00 pm PT

Goodness gracious, make it stop! You must know by now how much BoomTown loves internal Yahoo memos. But this is getting ridiculous. It’s been like a flash flood after a long drought at Sunnyvale HQ today, as Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz turns on the firehose of a whole lot of communicating. “I know you guys have reorg fatigue,” wrote Bartz in the latest email to employees about the management reorganization finally announced this morning. Also memo fatigue at All Things Digital HQ, if you can believe it.

More on Yahoo Reorg in Process: Ari and Hilary Rule, but Who Is Joel Jones?

Kara Swisher in News on February 25, 2009 at 2:28 pm PT

“It’s being changed every minute,” joked one Yahoo source about the reorg now in process at Yahoo, which is being shepherded by new CEO Carol Bartz. Actually, it’s kind of true, as execs at the troubled Web company are being moved around the board like chess pieces, while others players are added. According to numerous sources, mostly in Yahoo’s Sunnyvale, Calif. HQ, things are still in flux and not completely settled as yet. But one thing is clear: Layers are being collapsed quickly, as fewer people are in charge of more, with all roads leading to Bartz.