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Yahoo faces up to life after Jerry

After a turnaround plan that never got off the ground, falling profits and a disastrous reaction to his rejection of Microsoft's advances, Yahoo chief executive and founder Jerry Yang has fallen on his sword after 18 months at...

Investors cry 'Yahoo!' as Jerry Yang steps down and revives the prospect of a Microsoft deal

Jerry Yang's resignation as chief executive of Yahoo! added $2billion ($£1.33billion) to the value of the company yesterday as investors licked their lips at the prospect of a new deal with Microsoft.

Ethiopia ban stays as talks fail

Ethiopian fans will have no action to cheer for a long time Ethiopia remains banned from international football after the failure of talks aimed at resolving the dispute which has split the country's football federation (EFF)....

France claims Hope Diamond is King Louis XIV's long lost gem

France has claimed ownership of the Hope Diamond, a star exhibit in Washington's Smithsonian Institution, using new research to suggest it is actually a legendary gem once owned by King Louis XIV that was looted in the French...

Yahoo pulls down searchandreplace menu

Yahoo! is giving new meaning to “search”. The internet company is launching an expedition to replace chief executive Jerry Yang. By Jeff Segal, breakingviews.com The board’s decision not to name the obvious internal candidate –...

Headhunter starts search for new Yahoo chief

11 hrs ago

By Richard Waters in San Francisco and Kenneth Li in New York When John Thompson, one of the technology industry’s top headhunters, singled out a veteran engineer named Eric Schmidt to run Google, it turned out to be one of the...

Yahoo shake-up could delay talks with AOL

2 hrs ago

Talks about a deal to combine Yahoo and Time Warner’s AOL are likely to be delayed by the shake-up that has led to Jerry Yang’s departure from the chief executive role at Yahoo, according to people familiar with the...

Geoff Foster's market report: Stockbrokers lose their shirts

Spare a kind thought for the brogue and pinstripe brigade of private client stockbrokers. The global credit crisis and resultant market turmoil and mammoth share price falls has wiped out many of their clients and brought the...

McLaren KERS

I don't know if McLaren have been sandbagging, but their KERS systems is half a second faster than the none KERS car 2 days running whilst testing at Barcelona, which is more than a little good. I thought KERS was only meant to...

House member argues for immunity from lawsuit

A Marine who sued Rep. John Murtha for defamation urged a federal appeals court Tuesday to order the Pennsylvania Democrat to testify under oath in the case. An attorney for Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich told the court that he...

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