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Liveblogging From Yahoo Annual Meeting: Empty Chairs and No Power

in News on August 1, 2008 at 10:10 am PT

Eight minutes to go and BoomTown has a copious choice of seating here at the San Jose Fairmont Imperial Ballroom, as you can see from this picture. But no electricity for the computers of the press! The purple T-shirt squad from Yahoo had lovingly set up power strips for the reporters gathered in the cheap seats in the back. Well played, Jerry Yang, well played!

BoomTown Liveblogging From Yahoo Annual Meeting in San Jose!

in News on August 1, 2008 at 9:35 am PT

Ah, lovely breakfast pastries of all kinds tumbling down from the tables outside the Imperial Ballroom at the San Jose Fairmont this morning at Yahoo’s annual meeting. But, of course, no Carl Icahn and the noisy proxy fight circus that would have followed the shareholder activist here. Which is kind of a relief, really, after a very fraught year for the troubled Internet company. As to news that is likely to come out of the meeting, which starts at 10 a.m.?