Kara Swisher in News on November 11, 2011 at 2:53 pm PT
Former employees are good for something, apparently!
Kara Swisher in News on November 15, 2010 at 8:40 am PT
Ross Levinsohn officially starts at Yahoo today, although he has already been busy machinating and taking meetings since he was appointed North American head recently.
The former News Corp. exec replaces Hilary Schneider, and enters a tumultuous job running Yahoo’s key media and advertising sales businesses.
BoomTown has yet another primer for him today, but first let’s hear from Ross in his first blog post to the troops at Yahoo.
Kara Swisher in News on November 9, 2010 at 8:29 am PT
If wishes were horses, as the old proverb goes, all beggars would ride.
Or, in the case of the incessant corporate drama around Yahoo: If wishes were deals, all bankers would get big fat fees.
Even BoomTown has been harboring a big wish that there were some new scenario–instead of the same retreads that have been bandied about for more than a month–that was at least
possible.
But because making up scenarios about the fate of Yahoo is all fun and games, it goes on and on and on.
Kara Swisher in News on October 27, 2010 at 3:54 pm PT
As BoomTown reported yesterday as likely, Yahoo has finally hired former News Corp. digital exec Ross Levinsohn.
He replaces Hilary Schneider as EVP of the Americas region, the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s most critical unit.
That means Levinsohn will be in charge of both Yahoo’s powerful media properties and also its advertising business.
He
just signed and here is the official Yahoo press release.
Kara Swisher in News on October 26, 2010 at 12:11 pm PT
He’s
baaaaaack.
Former Fox Interactive Media President Ross Levinsohn, that is, who is the top candidate to replace Hilary Schneider as Yahoo’s U.S. head, according to several sources close to the situation.
While the deal is not completely struck, sources said Levinsohn is very close to taking the job as the exec primarily in charge of Yahoo’s powerful media properties and giant advertising business.
Kara Swisher in News on October 19, 2010 at 5:03 pm PT
Today in Yahoo’s third-quarter earnings conference call, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz said tersely of a flood of exec departures at the Silicon Valley Internet giant:
“Some people leave, some get promoted and some good people arrive.”
Yes, indeedy, and this afternoon, it was David Katz’s turn to say goodbye. He was Yahoo’s head of mobile in the U.S.
Kara Swisher in News on October 4, 2010 at 1:05 am PT
Sorry, folks, but–despite reports–Yahoo will not be unveiling another new organizational structure this week.
In actuality, the beleaguered Internet giant is just cleaning up from last week’s shake-up–in which it announced that a chunk of its top media and sales leadership was leaving–as well as settling in new hires made in recent months by its relatively new product head, Blake Irving.
In fact, those changes in Irving’s unit have resulted in the departure of two more execs. That would be former SVP of Media Products and Solutions Jeff Kinder and SVP for Cloud Computing Shelton Shugar, who are on their way out.
Kara Swisher in News on September 30, 2010 at 2:02 pm PT
Finally, a funny from Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, confirming what BoomTown reported yesterday about the departures of three top execs in an email memo to the company’s employees worldwide.
It just went out and began: “Carol from the foxhole here.”
Here’s the full memo, just sent by spy pigeon to the
All Things Digital Bartz-fortified bunker.
Kara Swisher in News on September 30, 2010 at 11:54 am PT
Today, as news of the departure of Yahoo’s U.S. head Hilary Schneider and two other top execs got around Wall Street, investors and dealmakers were actually thinking of things other than executive turmoil.
As in: Does the uncertainty, along with a naggingly lackluster stock price and weak growth, create pressure on its CEO Carol Bartz and its board to do something dramatic?
In addition, does the messy public situation even provide an opportunity to put Yahoo into play, despite its market cap of $19 billion?
Kara Swisher in News on September 30, 2010 at 9:49 am PT
“We are wandering around and people are asking us questions and we don’t know what’s going on ourselves,” said one very nervous Yahoo ad salesperson this morning in New York for Advertising Week, the most important gathering of the year for online sales. “There’s a lot of uncertainty from an employee perspective.”
You can say that again.
Today, as news BoomTown broke about the departure of Yahoo’s U.S. head Hilary Schneider and two other key execs at the Internet giant spread, I have been on the receiving end of a spate of emails and calls and text messages from staffers at the Silicon Valley icon searching for information about what’s up at their own company.
