Ready to Rumble or Make Nice? Activist Shareholder Daniel Loeb Could Strike Sooner Than Yahoo Thinks.

It’s like the movie “The Gray,” except it’s not clear yet who gets eaten and who does the eating.
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New Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Has Big Plans, but Can’t Tell You About Them

In the meantime, you’ve got to be comfortable with the fact that he has plans.
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Yahoo Gives “Retargeters” the Boot. Ad Networks Next?

Yahoo’s Ross Levinsohn tries to fix his ad sales problem, by kicking out outsiders who resell his stuff.
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Yahoo Buys Ad Network Interclick for $270 Million

Wait: Isn’t Yahoo on the block? Sure. But meanwhile, it is also trying to fix its ad business, which is why Ross Levinsohn is buying ad tech.
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All for One! Yahoo, AOL, Microsoft Band Together for Ad Plan.

Tim Armstrong, Ross Levinsohn and Microsoft’s ad boss link up to take on Google and the ad networks.
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Yang Says “Not for Sale”: All Hands on Yahoo’s Slippery Deck!

As a day of meetings begin for Yahoos over the sudden firing of CEO Carol Bartz, I’ll be the one in the back taking notes. Co-founder Jerry Yang says “no sale,” which means the sale is definitely in progress!
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My Picks for Yahoo’s Next CEO — Maybe Snoop Dogg, Ya Digg?

While the Yahoo board has yet to begin a search, I have already been hard at work on selecting the next CEO.
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Insider Buying: Top Execs — But Not Its CEO Carol Bartz — Purchase Shares of Yahoo on the Open Market

Ross Levinsohn and Blake Irving, who head Yahoo’s two biggest units, go long on the company. Someone had to do it.

Not-So-Chart-tastic Picture of Yahoo’s Q2 Display Disaster

Paging Ross Levinsohn — leader of Yahoo’s Americas region and its ad efforts — stat!
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Is There a Myspace Mafia, Too? Because Leaving Seems to Have Paid Off for Many Ex-Execs.

When the selling of Myspace winds down in the next week or so, it’ll probably attract a spate of comments about what a failure the whole social networking enterprise turned out to be. That is, unless you think of the mob of former execs who have worked at the company over time, many of whom have moved on to some more golden opportunities after leaving Myspace.
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Yahoo Bored Meeting? Not This Time!