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Yahoo Celebrates Its 15th Anniversary: Now, Is It Finally Time to Buy AOL as a Gift to Itself?

in News on March 2, 2010 at 8:44 am PT

Today, Yahoo is turning 15, which makes it approximately 105 in Internet years. All joking aside–especially since that makes BoomTown 134 years old–reaching this mark is both an accomplishment and a burden, with Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz pushing forward a very deliberate transformation and employing a fix-it management style in her tenure at Yahoo of just over a year. While the seasoned exec has most certainly gotten the trains running better, some are now wondering if there needs to be a more dramatic facelift at Yahoo to hurl it forward at even greater speed.

Sounds Like Steve Picked a Good Meeting to Skip

in News on February 25, 2009 at 1:43 pm PT

Aside from a spontaneous “Happy Birthday” sung to an absent CEO Steve Jobs, Apple’s annual meeting today was something of a nonevent. Shareholders re-elected the company’s board of directors despite concerns about its handling of the disclosure of Jobs’s health problems. And the board continued to wave off questions about the company’s succession plans and Jobs’s well-being.
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