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Exclusive: Yahoo CIO Kirwan Bids Adieu

in News on November 4, 2010 at 2:45 pm PT

As part of BoomTown’s duty as internal jobs board for Yahoo, here’s another departure: CIO Mike Kirwan. According to his Yahoo bio, he had “global responsibility for Yahoo!’s Corporate Systems group, which includes the IT Infrastructure, Corporate Applications, CRM and Premium Services Infrastructure teams. These teams ensure Yahoo!’s internal systems and billing/anti-fraud services are available 24/7.” In other words, the guy who keeps the lights on!

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

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.
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New Yahoo Management Structure: The Entire Memo

in News on February 26, 2009 at 11:46 am PT

Along with Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz’s external email earlier today, the company also outlined the new management structure in another memo. It’s pretty much what BoomTown has been reporting all week. Top-down simplification, which is another word for: Carol rules over Yahoo. CTO Ari Balogh gets a lot of stuff as new head of products, and so does U.S. head Hilary Schneider, including mobile, as EVP of North American Region. Bot report to Bartz. Here’s the entire memo of Yahoo’s new organization.