10 posts and columns on Gary Wilson

One More Reason to Occupy Wall Street: “Concern” Over Accurate Tech News

in Media on February 8 at 6:44 am PT

Worrywart Wall Street is agonizing over facts.
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Four Yahoo Board Members to Depart, Two New Ones Arrive and Three More on the Way (Like I Said)

in News on February 7 at 12:38 pm PT

Yahoo moves chairs around the deck some more.
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Sources: Four More Board Members Will Be Following Yang Out the Door

in News on January 17 at 2:53 pm PT

Watch out for falling bowling pins, um, directors!
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Yahapocalypse Now? Q4 Results, Proxy Fight, Board Hijinks and Asia Solution Combine for Busy Month for Yahoo.

in News on January 9 at 1:12 pm PT

A perfect storm for the Silicon Valley Internet giant or just another day at “The Office”?
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Three Months After Bartz’s Firing, It’s Hurry Up and Wait at Yahoo (A Big Honking Update)

in Media on December 7, 2011 at 9:43 am PT

Still no sale or investment deal. No new CEO. No Asia resolution. And, perhaps most importantly, no clearly articulated strategy going forward. Other than that …
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Meet the Yahoo Board: Something Old, Something New–But Will They Do Something?

in News on October 14, 2010 at 9:00 am PT

With all the noisy swirl around Yahoo of late–from its executive turmoil to its flat growth to its dashed partnerships in Asia to its brash CEO–its board has been unusually quiet of late. Comatose, some might say. But with private equity firms, media companies, Web rivals, big shareholders, Wall Street and others all machinating about trying to grab all or some of the Internet giant, it will be interesting to see if its directors will shake themselves out of their typical comfort zone of inactivity to actually do their job. Thus, time for their moment in the BoomTown spotlight!

Yahoo Board Casts About for New CEO: No Committee, Six Criteria and AOL Merger-Ready!

in News on December 3, 2008 at 5:00 am PT

Now let’s return from the land of fatuous deal schemes and half-baked plots to buy Yahoo and get to the most critical issue facing its board right now: Finding a new CEO to replace outgoing leader Jerry Yang. Sources tell BoomTown that board Chairman Roy Bostock has been asserting a new CEO will be named by the new year. Only 28 more shopping days until management clarity! Well, maybe not so much, given there is no formal search committee. But there is a list and a pending AOL deal, so let’s hope for a miracle on 701 First Avenue in Sunnyvale!

After Vote-Gate, Heads Must Roll on Yahoo's Board

in News on August 6, 2008 at 5:00 pm PT

To anyone who says that it’s inconsequential that Yahoo understated the level of shareholder dissatisfaction by more than half thanks to a “tabulation error” by its proxy counter, Broadridge, I say: You couldn’t be more wrong. This incident will have ramifications in the coming weeks for the composition of Yahoo’s board.

Major Yahoo Investor Leans Toward Backing Carl Icahn Too

in News on July 7, 2008 at 9:46 am PT

Microsoft’s not the only one backing billionaire investor Carl Icahn in his quest to unseat Yahoo’s leadership and board–major Yahoo investor Gordon Crawford told Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang in a face-to-face meeting last week that he was seriously considering voting against Yahoo in the looming proxy fight. The troubled meeting that took place last Tuesday in Los Angeles between Capital Research Global Investors’ Crawford and Yang–accompanied by three Yahoo board members–could be seen as a portent of what is to come at the company’s annual meeting on August 1. And those signs are definitely not good for Yahoo’s current leaders.

Say Hello to the Yahoo Board Members

in News on January 28, 2008 at 12:58 am PT

One of the most overlooked parts of Web companies are their board members, so I think it is time to start looking more carefully at those firms where the role of directors is going to be increasingly important in 2008. First stop, obviously, is Yahoo, which reports its fourth quarter and also full year earnings (and also perhaps some board-approved layoffs) tomorrow after the markets close. With everything from consistently persistent takeover rumors, a still-lagging stock price and continued scrutiny on its moves to revive itself, the company’s managers and–it must be assumed–its directors obviously face challenges in the year ahead.