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Reluctantly, Yahoo Is Listening as Possible Buyers Are Lining Up

Yahoo is still in turmoil after ousting CEO Carol Bartz. The company has been in trouble for years, but the move opened up the question of its future once again. While the board is putting together a list of options, it has tried to downplay the possibility of a sale. The board is looking at other alternatives to ...

15 September 2011
06:21 GMT

Even After Lash-Out at Yahoo Board, Ex-CEO Carol Bartz Will Still Get at Least $10 Million

The latest Yahoo drama is still unfolding. After unceremoniously firing CEO Carol Bartz, the company is desperately looking for a direction and a strategy.What it's not looking for is a new CEO, apparently, since the company wants to determine what is the best path to go forward and will only then choose a CEO t...

12 September 2011
05:30 GMT

With Bartz Out, Yahoo's Future Is Unclear and, While Unlikely, a Sale is Possible

Yahoo has been struggling for years to turn things around and start seeing some solid growth and revenue once again. Previous CEOs tried, and failed, to turn the tides and now the latest, Carol Bartz, has been ousted after the board got tired of waiting for things to start looking up.Bartz was brought in to revitaliz...

7 September 2011
12:12 GMT

Failing to Turn Around Yahoo, CEO Carol Bartz Has Been Ousted

Perhaps an inevitable move, Carol Bartz is out as Yahoo CEO after almost three years of trying, and failing, to turn around the fortunes of the troubled company. Stagnant revenue and profits have been plaguing Yahoo for the past few years and the string of restructuring and layoffs didn't manage to change things...

7 September 2011
05:01 GMT

Yahoo Confirms Massive Layoffs Wave

Yahoo is confirming the latest round of layoffs at the company. While the number of people being let go is actually a bit smaller than anticipated, it's still a big round. Yahoo says about 4 percent of the company's staff, roughly 600 people based on the latest employee numbers from Yahoo itself.Apparently,...

15 December 2010
06:09 GMT

Yahoo Drama Dialing Down After Disruptive Departures

Yahoo hasn't had the best of weeks, but things are reportedly calming down. Furthermore, a rumored reorganization, yes, another one, is actually not in the works and Yahoo will just be settling things after the departures last week. According to AllThingsD, which has been covering the latest Yahoo drama since da...

4 October 2010
08:55 GMT

Yahoo to Lose Three More Executives, Things Are Starting to Look Dire

Yahoo has been trying to revamp itself for the better part of 18 months, ever since Carol Bartz became CEO. The hope was to bring in a tough new leader which will provide a vision and a plan for moving Yahoo forward again. But things aren't going very well as the company is now reportedly losing another three to...

30 September 2010
08:37 GMT

Yahoo to Launch Improved Advertising Campaign

It is already a common fact that companies need to reinvent themselves and to attract more segments of the market as time goes by, in order to maintain their revenues. The Sunnyvale-based company attempted to regain its popularity during the fall of 2009, with several events all over the U.S. Apparently, they have de...

21 April 2010
01:54 GMT

Yahoo's Carol Bartz Grades Herself with a B-Minus for Her First Year

It's certainly been a tumultuous year at Yahoo as the company is going through some pretty big changes that it hopes it will return it to its former status. Under the leadership of its new CEO, Carol Bartz, who is closing in on one year at the company, it started a massive cost-cutting campaign, one that meant j...

9 January 2010
07:56 GMT

Yahoo's Carol Bartz Would Have Taken Last Year's Microsoft Offer

Yahoo is still pretty much under the scope, as it tries to reinvent itself as an original-content company and focuses more on its homepage and core services, which Search apparently isn't. The company's outspoken CEO, Carol Bartz, addressed some of the general issues and plans at Yahoo and also some that ha...

11 September 2009
11:16 GMT

Yahoo's Carol Bartz Sold $2 Million Worth of Shares This Year

The long-awaited Microsoft deal has most Yahoo shareholders less than pleased. Many believe that it could have been on much better terms and were expecting an up-front payment of up to several billions. And now they have even more reason to be displeased, after it was revealed that the Internet giant's new CEO, ...

7 September 2009
04:55 GMT

Bing Should Be Given Kudos, Yahoo CEO Says

Yahoo's financial results for the second quarter came in earlier and while they were slightly above experts' expectations the Internet giant saw a big dip in revenue, declining 13 percent. However, CEO Carol Bartz was satisfied with the results, considering that they couldn't have been much better in t...

22 July 2009
08:59 GMT

Yahoo Hires Penny Baldwin as Brand Manager

Yahoo continues its executive restructuring and has hired Penny Baldwin, an ad agency veteran, to manage the brand marketing strategies under the official title of senior vice president of global integrated marketing and brand management. He will be reporting to the also recently appointed Chief Marketing Officer (CM...

1 July 2009
05:09 GMT

Yahoo Progressing as Planned, CEO Carol Bartz Says

Yahoo's first shareholder meeting with new CEO Carol Bartz at the helm went by without too much commotion. The actual order of business went smoothly and Bartz spent most of the time emphasizing on the changes she had been making and the fact that the company did have a strong plan going forward. A big part of ...

26 June 2009
05:30 GMT

Yahoo Hires Tim Morse as New CFO

Yahoo has announced that it has a new Chief Financial Officer after the recent departure of Blake Jorgensen. Tim Morse is the company's new CFO and will handle finances, as well as investor relations, mergers and acquisitions. The Internet giant's CEO Carol Bartz made the announcement herself.“Tim has...

12 June 2009
07:19 GMT

Yahoo Microsoft Marriage Talks Rekindled

After failing to make it as a couple to the search engine and online advertising altar in 2008, the Yahoo and Microsoft marriage talks have been rekindled, Yahoo Chief Executive Officer Carol Bartz confirmed while doing an on-stage interview at the D: All Things Digital conference. There's no word on how advance...

28 May 2009
07:20 GMT

Yahoo Reports Loss for Q4 2008

While Google accounted for a strong growth in the past fiscal quarter, and with Microsoft failing to meet expectations, missing estimates by $900 million, but still managing to hold its head above water, Yahoo posted a Q4 loss of $303 million. For the fourth quarter of 2008, the company has seen its revenues drop to ...

28 January 2009
04:07 GMT

Carol Bartz - Yahoo Gets New CEO

Back in mid-November 2008, Yahoo debuted the season of CEO harvesting as Jerry Yang announced that he was stepping down from the position of head of the company. On January 13, 2009, the Sunnyvale Internet giant announced that Yang's position would be taken by technology veteran Carol Bartz. With Yang at the hel...

14 January 2009
04:25 GMT


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