Rich Riley

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.

Yahoo Preps Its New Structure Down to the Wire — Set to be Unveiled to Staff at All-Hands Meeting This Morning

Kara Swisher in News on April 10 at 5:45 am PT

Watch out below! Also above. And over there, too. Oh, just watch out today, Yahoos!

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!

Actual News on Earnings Call: Yahoo Disables Annoying "Hover" Tool on Homepage, Restructures International Ops

Kara Swisher in News on January 26, 2010 at 3:18 pm PT

News was actually committed during Yahoo’s fourth-quarter earnings conference call today when CEO Carol Bartz noted that the company would disable its irksome “hover interaction” on the homepage and that the Internet giant has restructured its international business. Yahoo reported results earlier today that slightly exceeded expectations in the fourth quarter, but it was no blowout.

Yahoo Poised to Name New International Head–After Five-Month Look-See at the Crowned Web Heads of Europe

Kara Swisher 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.”

One Last Yahoo Reorg Missive: Bartz Tells Employees What She Already Said. Again.

Kara Swisher in News on February 26, 2009 at 4:00 pm PT

Goodness gracious, make it stop! You must know by now how much BoomTown loves internal Yahoo memos. But this is getting ridiculous. It’s been like a flash flood after a long drought at Sunnyvale HQ today, as Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz turns on the firehose of a whole lot of communicating. “I know you guys have reorg fatigue,” wrote Bartz in the latest email to employees about the management reorganization finally announced this morning. Also memo fatigue at All Things Digital HQ, if you can believe it.