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As Yahoo CEO Reaches Out to Top Staff, Board Meets to Weigh “Options” (I.E., Deciding Who Gets to Take the Borked Bio Blame)

in News on May 6 at 8:27 pm PT

On tonight’s Silicon Valley version of “Game of Thrones,” King Scott Thompson tries to assuage, while the board potentates sharpen their knives.
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Yahoo Poised to Name New International Head–After Five-Month Look-See at the Crowned Web Heads of Europe

in News on August 17, 2009 at 11:24 am PT

Yahoo is closer to naming a new international head, according to sources, the last big slot left in the top management structure of CEO Carol Bartz. While BoomTown is endeavoring to get the name of this international man of mystery, the suspect list is long, since Yahoo’s headhunter for the job–Heidrick & Struggles–has pretty much talked to the gamut of international Web muckety-mucks since the search started six months ago. In a memo to Yahoo staff after her reorganization in February, Bartz said that “international growth is critical for Yahoo!, which has become too reliant on its U.S. business over the years.”
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Facebook Headhunter: The Quest for the Golden Geek!

in News on February 22, 2008 at 2:00 am PT

If Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg is serious about finding a true No. 2 to replace outgoing exec Owen Van Natta and more, then BoomTown has certainly at least two cents to add. So here is our list of ideas, which include a number of women execs, since a list that Facebook has made apparently includes [...]