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Yahoo Beats Q1 Expectations (as Expected) — Now, Will New CEO Outline More Strategery on Investor Call?

Kara Swisher in News on April 17 at 1:15 pm PT

An upside non-surprise as we await pearls of wisdom from new CEO Scott Thompson.

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

Kara Swisher 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.”

Yahoo’s Layoffs Tomorrow Morning of up to 2,000 Will Only Be the First Move of a Larger Purge to Come

Kara Swisher in News on April 3 at 3:16 pm PT

A dark day will probably dawn by tomorrow in Sunnyvale.

Yahoo Layoffs Set to Begin Next Week, Followed by Restructuring the Week After

Kara Swisher in News on March 30 at 9:00 am PT

And so it begins.

Yahoo’s Europe Head Riley Steps Down, but Expects to Remain at Company

Kara Swisher in News on March 10 at 9:44 am PT

The well-dressed exec in charge of Europe, Middle East and Africa region might be headed to Silicon Valley.

Yahoo Product Unit Readies Major Exec Reorg — But It’s Just a Tremor for the Big One to Come

Kara Swisher in News on February 12 at 4:14 pm PT

More musical chairs on the deck of the S.S. Yahoo!

Orange to Bring Free Wikipedia Access to Cell Users in Africa and Middle East

Ina Fried in Mobile on January 24 at 10:44 am PT

Over the course of 2012, the carrier will bring the service to 20 countries in the region it covers.

BlackBerry Outage Hits Europe, Middle East, Africa

John Paczkowski in Mobile on October 10, 2011 at 8:05 am PT

Another black eye for the BlackBerry.

Where in the World Is Yahoo’s Carol Bartz? (Here’s the Internal Memo GPS!)

Kara Swisher in News on June 19, 2011 at 12:03 pm PT

With its annual meeting this coming Thursday, you’d think Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz would be taking a rest. Not so! She has been a regular Carmen Sandiego, in fact, jetting to Yahoo hotspots around the globe from Dubai to Milan to New York and then back to Yahoo’s Sunnyvale HQ.