Kara Swisher in News on November 11, 2011 at 2:53 pm PT
Former employees are good for something, apparently!
Peter Kafka in AsiaD on October 19, 2011 at 4:51 pm PT
This time, the Internet giant’s co-founder had an answer ready.
Kara Swisher in News on September 16, 2011 at 2:31 pm PT
So why was the ousted CEO of Yahoo shown the door so abruptly? Because it is Yahoo, which never met a crisis situation it could not hopelessly complexify.
Kara Swisher in Media on September 7, 2011 at 7:00 am PT
While the Yahoo board has yet to begin a search, I have already been hard at work on selecting the next CEO.
Kara Swisher in News on November 15, 2010 at 12:53 pm PT
A new $10 million micro-venture fund, led by former Yahoo top engineering exec Ash Patel–called Morado Ventures and funded by a group largely made up of ex-Yahoos–is about to launch, according to sources close to the situation.
Expected limited partners in Morado, which means “purple” in Spanish, include former Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, former COO Dan Rosensweig and former sales head Greg Coleman. Ex-Yahoo President Sue Decker is also considering investing, said sources.
Also on deck: Yahoo’s two founders Jerry Yang and David Filo, both of whom are still at the company.
Kara Swisher in News on March 15, 2010 at 9:15 am PT
According to several sources, Yahoo’s SVP of U.S. Revenue and Market Development Joanne Bradford is planning on leaving the Internet giant to take a new position as Chief Revenue Officer of online content upstart Demand Media.
The surprise move is sure to have reverberations throughout the online advertising arena, but more so at Yahoo, where Bradford’s job encompasses a wide range of key revenue-generating duties.
She has also been tapped as one of the execs to play a key role in the recently approved search and online ad partnership with Microsoft.
Kara Swisher in News on February 16, 2010 at 1:53 pm PT
Like victims in the thriller, “Ten Little Indians,” the directors of Yahoo involved in its Microsoft takeover debacle are moving off its board.
Today, it’s billionaire businessman Ron Burkle doing the leaving, after serving since 2001, when he was brought onto the Internet giant’s board by former CEO Terry Semel.
He’s the third director to depart since CEO Carol Bartz took over a little more than a year ago.
Kara Swisher in News on June 18, 2009 at 4:45 am PT
In exactly one week at 10 am PDT, Yahoo will hold its annual meeting in Silicon Valley, the first time when new CEO Carol Bartz will greet its shareholders in person.
She should prep carefully, as the event has been quite a drama over the last two years.
Here’s a rundown of what is likely to be on the minds of investors, including the status of the isn’t-it-rich-aren’t-they-a-pair relationship between Yahoo and Microsoft.
Kara Swisher in News on March 3, 2009 at 8:32 am PT
It looks like two years of relentless controversy and company upheaval have sent Yahoo’s former PR person back into the arms of a retail outfit.
Jill Nash, who said she was leaving Yahoo in early February, will be taking the top PR job at San Francisco-based Levi Strauss & Co., where the former Gap exec will get the title of chief communications officer and VP of corporate affairs.
Of course, given the tough retail market these days, life at the jeans manufacturer isn’t going to be all worn-in comfort either.
Kara Swisher in News on February 9, 2009 at 10:00 am PT
My favorite anecdote collected so far about new Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is the one in which she called together two separate groups of execs who were direct reports of former Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and President Sue Decker.
Bartz, several sources recounted, went around the table and asked them one by one what they actually did, making various outspoken comments along the way about management.
Stories like this about Bartz’s take-charge style have been ricocheting through Yahoo as she navigates the troubled company to come up with a plan to revive it.
But of all the various things many employees I have talked to hope she does first is dump the “matrix” organizational structure that many at Yahoo have grown to despise.
