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Roy Bostock
Silicon Alley Insider:
U.S. search advertising spending fell an unprecedented 8% year-over-year in Q4, search marketing firm Efficient Frontier reports. It was the first time search advertising spending declined in a quarter year-over-year since Ef (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Carol Bartz was on board as CEO of Yahoo for all of 15 seconds before the assumptions and speculation began—particularly when it comes to making a deal with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT). The initial assumption: Bartz was selected, (Read More)
paidContent.org:
Carol Bartz is in as Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO effective immediately—and Sue Decker is leaving as president after being passed over for the job. Bartz comes to Yahoo from Autodesk, where she has been executive chairman since ste (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
AOL (TWX) and Yahoo (YHOO) came close enough to merging last fall that executives from each company's media groups spent two days planning an eventual integration, says a source with knowledge of the meetings. AOL president (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock's plan was to name a new CEO before 2009. Hasn't happened yet and there's only a week to go, so we're prepared to be shocked -- shocked! -- that Yahoo might take more time to make its decision than (Read More)
Submitted by magitam
from Google Reader:
Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) hasn't got a shot at nailing Peter Chernin as Jerry Yang's successor in the CEO role, AllThingsD's Kara Swisher reports, citing an unidentified source. Chernin, president and COO of News Corp (NYSE: NWS). (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
News Corp. COO Peter Chernin took a call from Yahoo (YHOO) board chairman Roy Bostock, but he refused to visit Sunnyvale to talk about the job, Kara Swisher reports:It looks like Yahoo has almost no chance to nab a top candid (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Hiring Qi Lu for its digital head, Microsoft bounced VP and former aQuantive CEO Brian McAndrews. But it might not be long till he lands a new gig. Yahoo board chairman Roy Bostock has six criteria for the next Yahoo CEO, ac (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Here's a thought. Maybe Carl Icahn bought more Yahoo shares because he foresees an easy transition for the company after it names its next CEO.Because it'll be Sue Decker, who's been planning for the job for at least two year (Read More)
MEDIAdeluge:
Yangs memo to Yahoo! employees…To: all yahoos Fr: Jerry Subject: updateyahoos -i wanted to address all of you on the news we’ve just announced. the board of directors and I have agreed to initiate a succession process for the (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
As soon as Steve Ballmer said a Microsoft-Yahoo "deal might make sense," reporters rushed to the phones and called their sources. Then they breathlessly reported that the market's immediate move to bid up Yahoo (YHOO) was wro (Read More)
Aug 06, 2008
TechCrunch:
Yahoo’s retally of its shareholder votes shows the deep-seated anger among shareholders and how close CEO Jerry Yang and chairman Roy Bostock were to being ousted from the board of directors. The votes had to be recoun (Read More)
Submitted by jasongoldberg:
Insider Eric Jackson believes that it's only "the second inning" in the revival of Yahoo. He expects Microsoft to return with yet another merger proposition for Yahoo next year because Microsoft still needs big help in online (Read More)
Times Online:
Roy Bostock, the chairman of Yahoo!, has rejected calls for his resignation
from shareholders who claimed that he had bungled the takeover offer by
Microsoft, the software giant. (Read More)
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