6 posts and columns on divestiture

Yahoo’s China Settlement Fails to Stem Its Stock Decline

in News on July 31, 2011 at 12:48 pm PT

You would think the settlement of a major dispute would goose the stock of a company, but Yahoo’s deal with its Chinese partner Alibaba Group on Friday did exactly the opposite.
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AT&T Chief Sees Divestitures in T-Mobile Deal

in News on March 30, 2011 at 10:10 am PT

AT&T Inc. Chief Executive Randall Stephenson said he expects some divestiture of customers and wireless spectrum as the company marches through the approval process to close its acquisition of T-Mobile USA.

Icahn Cans Yahoo

in News on February 16, 2010 at 5:15 am PT

Carl Icahn is slowly cutting his ties with Yahoo. The billionaire investor, who once held some 75 million shares in the Internet pioneer, has whittled that stake down to about 12 million shares as of Feb. 12, according to a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Liveblogging the AOL Conference Call: To Everything, Turn, Turn, Turn?

in News on February 3, 2010 at 6:21 am PT

BoomTown liveblogged the AOL conference call, the first since it spun off from Time Warner. Earlier this morning, AOL reported its fourth-quarter results, whichN beat very, very low Wall Street expectations. And essentially, it was all about turning the Internet icon around. Bottom line: Still turning, but the lid is super-duper tight, folks!

Liveblogging Yahoo's Third-Quarter Conference Call: Bartz "Came Down With Something," and CFO Carries On (and On and On and On)

in News on October 20, 2009 at 2:15 pm PT

Uh-oh, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was expected to appear on the Internet giant’s third-quarter earnings call, but she apparently “came down with something,” according to CFO Tim Morse. BoomTown is sending over chicken soup right now, but let’s hope she gets her vaccinations tout de suite! Thus, no sassy quotes or cursing, but a very earnest Morse, who sounded like he was once a Boy Scout.
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Weekend Update, 10/10/08

in News on October 11, 2008 at 12:00 am PT

The best thing that can be said of the week ending Oct. 10, 2008, is this: It’s over. Marked by panic selling and wet-your-pants fear, it was one of the worst weeks in the financial world’s history–a week that cut the legs out from under Google, beat Yahoo until its market cap bled purple and caused the Dow Jones Industrial Average to swing more than one thousand points on an intra-day basis.