3 posts and columns on Jeff Mallett

Ex-Yahoos Weigh In on Their Choices for New Yahoo CEO

in News on December 13, 2008 at 2:00 am PT

With so many more ex-Yahoos out there now, BoomTown put out feelers to a range of them to ask whom they would like to run the company they no longer work for. After all, who better than to pick a new CEO than an ex? The response was swift and varied wildly, depending on which way the ex-Yahoo felt the company should go, from a basic turnaround expert to–drum roll, please–his digital Holiness, Steve Jobs of Apple. No kidding.

MicroHoo: History Lesson No. 1– Time Warner Tries to Buy Yahoo

in News on April 16, 2008 at 3:44 pm PT

While we are waiting for the season finale of the Microsoft-AOL-Yahoo takeover–too bad we can’t blame the writers’ strike for the lugubrious pace of this deal–BoomTown will take you back in time to equally edge-of-your-seat times in Internet history in a series of surprisingly familiar stories. Eerily familiar, in fact! As you might imagine, while [...]

Yang Is the Man?

in News on June 19, 2007 at 2:55 am PT

I was wrong. I have to say I never thought that Jerry Yang would screw up the guts to actually move CEO Terry Semel out of his job and move right in as CEO. As I have written in many posts, such as this one, I thought Semel would go, but take his own sweet [...]