139 posts and columns on memo

Former CEO Thompson Might Be Gone, But Internal Investigation Into ResuMess Still a Hot Potato at Yahoo

in News on May 22 at 9:03 am PT

The mystery of the botched bio lingers on.
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The King Is Dead, Long Live the … Whatever: Levinsohn’s Management Moves at Yahoo (Internal Memo)

in News on May 17 at 5:31 pm PT

For those following the soap opera that I am chief writer for, “Days of Our Yahoos,” here’s the latest episode.
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Exclusive: Yahoo’s Thompson Out; Levinsohn In; Board Settlement With Loeb Nears Completion

in News on May 13 at 8:59 am PT

The final shoe — shoe store, really — drops.
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Stern Named Head of New Strategery Role at Yahoo

in News on May 9 at 4:41 pm PT

The man who has been the Swiss Army Knife of Yahoo will be key strategy guy for Thompson, who clearly wants to do a lot of strategizing.
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CEO Says Sorry to Yahoos for Borked Bio “Distraction” — But Will Mea Culpa Work Without an Apology for Error? (Memo)

in News on May 7 at 4:59 pm PT

He’s sorry. Deeply regrets. Apologizes. Takes full responsibility for the distraction. You know the drill.
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Yahoo’s Thompson Asks Employees to “Stay Focused” — Except Not on Him

in News on May 4 at 6:04 pm PT

Of course, the Yahoo internal memo of the week for the Yahoo internal crisis of the week!
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It’s Official: Yahoo Reorgs Itself Just Like We Said (Memo Time!)

in News on April 10 at 8:11 am PT

Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson just sent this note to Yahoo employees, about a new leadership organization for the company.
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Amid Worries About Strategery, Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Tries to Soothe the Savaged Troops (Memo Time!)

in News on April 5 at 3:13 pm PT

Who knows what tomorrow brings, in a world few hearts survive?

It’s Official: Yahoo Lays Off 2,000 Employees — 14 Percent of Workforce

in News on April 4 at 6:22 am PT

CEO Scott Thompson promises that Yahoo, after staff cuts of 14 percent of the entire workforce, will be “smaller, nimbler, more profitable and better equipped to innovate as fast as our customers and our industry require.”
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Yahoo’s Layoffs Tomorrow Morning of up to 2,000 Will Only Be the First Move of a Larger Purge to Come

in News on April 3 at 3:16 pm PT

A dark day will probably dawn by tomorrow in Sunnyvale.
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Yahoo Product Org Changes Now Taking a Backseat to Company-Wide Restructuring (Memo!)

CEO Thompson Tells Yahoos “Real Change Is Coming” (It’s Exclusive Internal Memo Time!)

in News, March 15, 2012 at 5:06 am PT

Exclusive: High-Ranking Yahoo Product Exec Shaughnessy Departs

ATD and Mashable Sitting in a Tree: The Best Merger Memo I’ve Nabbed All Year

in Media, February 14, 2012 at 6:00 am PT

Yahoo Reorgs U.S. Ad Sales After Talent Departure (Internal Memo, Natch!)

in Media, January 20, 2012 at 1:15 pm PT

Confirmed: Yahoo Names PayPal Head Scott Thompson as New CEO

in News, January 4, 2012 at 6:08 am PT

Meet Billy, the Bison Mark Zuckerberg Shot and Hung On Sheryl Sandberg’s Wall

in Social, December 16, 2011 at 12:00 pm PT

Google+’s Bradley Horowitz Talks Facebook, Social Networking and That Memo: The Full AsiaD Interview (Video)

in AsiaD, November 14, 2011 at 11:39 am PT

Microsoft Appoints Online Unit’s Yusuf Mehdi to Run Xbox Marketing (Plus Internal Memos!)

in Commerce, November 9, 2011 at 12:49 pm PT

Exclusive: Like Marketing, Yahoo’s Customer Advocacy Org Gets Sliced and Diced This Week

in News, October 26, 2011 at 12:01 am PT

Exclusive: Yahoo Overhauls Marketing Unit — The Internal Memo

in News, October 21, 2011 at 8:48 am PT

No Harm, No Foul

Only One Yahoo Fearless Leader Note This Week: Please Ignore the Unignorable Rumors!

in News, September 30, 2011 at 5:03 pm PT

AOL’s Europe Head Kate Burns Departs; Goviral’s Maymann Takes Over (Internal Memo, Too!)

in News, September 27, 2011 at 8:15 am PT

Whitman Makes Comms Appointment at HP (We Got Your Memo)

in News, September 27, 2011 at 7:16 am PT