The Future of Yahoo

Yahoo's Yang to step down as CEO after deals with Microsoft, Google fail

Under pressure from Yahoo shareholders in recent weeks After a bungled buyout offer from Microsoft, a deal with Google that fell apart and two rounds of layoffs, Jerry Yang is calling it quits and stepping aside as chief...

Search Engine News Wrap-up November 16

So much to read and so little time. It’s good Pandia is doing all the reading for you! Here are some of the essential search engine news articles from this week: For Yahoo’s CEO, News Keeps Getting Worse Yang made no...

Carl Icahn: Corporate Hell-Raiser

'I can go in and save 30% in almost any company because there is so much waste and mismanagement.' One problem is lack of accountability: "You had very few real, functioning boards to control what went on on Wall Street," he...

Is an Apple search engine in the works?

Rumors are floating around the Web this week about a possible new search engine in the works by Apple. Let me be the first to say I hope they're not true.A story published by tech blog TechCrunch Thursday cites "multiple (if...

For Yahoo's CEO, News Keeps Getting Worse

Yang has failed to spark the kind of turnaround that companies like Apple, Dell, or Starbucks saw to greater or lesser degrees once their legendary founders or early leaders returned. -- Jerry Yang's elevation to chief...

Microsoft taking 'Silk Road' to greater search market share?

Posted by Mary Jo Foley @ 11:37 am Microsoft is adding a fourth pillar to its search-business strategy that involves opening up its search interfaces and infrastructure to third-party developers to get them to incorporate...

The Yahoo-AOL Jabberfest Continues Ad Infinitum (Plus Some Jerry Yang Chitter-Chatter on Video)...

Last week--in a clear sign that BoomTown has spent way too much face time in front of the idiot box--I compared the endless bickering back-and-forth between Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer to the annoying...

Google shares close at $291, Yahoo just above $10

In a bad day for publicly traded tech companies, Google's stock shares closed at $291 on Wednesday, marking the first time since 2005 that the Mountain View, Calif. dot-com's stock price has slipped below the $300 mark. The...

The Pundits Pan Talk Of Possible AOL-Yahoo Deal (Investor's Business Daily)

Tuesday November 11, 6:00 pm ET Yahoo is running out of potential partners. With Google (NasdaqGS: ) seemingly out of the picture, the Web portal reportedly has had talks, variously hot and cold, about acquiring AOL. Some...

Nine Lives For Yahoo (YHOO)

November 11, 2008 | By Ben McClure Internet search giant Google (Nasdaq:GOOG) pulled the plug on an internet advertising partnership with Yahoo (Nasdaq:YHOO) last Wednesday, abandoning efforts to overcome objections from...

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