Icahn is making massive bets on Yahoo stock Commentary: Billionaire activist seems more optimistic than even Wall Street By Therese Poletti, MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (Menafn - While professional investors may disdain the...
By Scott M. Fulton, III , BetaNews Perhaps one of the sternest reprimands of a US corporation in history, handed down last year, may be chopped in two and watered down as a result of a federal appeals court decision yesterday....
The man who’s spent that last two years reducing European business costs for Yahoo is leaving the company. Toby Coppel, who was brought in by then-chairman Terry Semel in 2001 is leaving the company in a move that Yahoo says is...
at 12:58 pm by Roy Schestowitz “You don’t need to buy the company, just destroy them and then take their business.” –Duncan ‘Dragons Den’ Bannatyne In this latest chapter, there are negotiations for the acquisition of Yahoo’s...
Yahoo!'s European managing director Toby Coppel is joining the exodus from the firm. Coppel was previously chief strategy officer for the ailing internet firm. Rich Riley is replacing Coppel. Riley has been with Yahoo! since it...
Posted Nov 28, 2008 09:15am EST by Kara Swisher When everyone else has been selling, it seems Carl Icahn has decided to throw good money after bad–as in nearly $1 billion bad–by buying almost seven million more of Yahoo shares,...
Yahoo! Inc, whose shares fell 65 per cent since spurning Microsoft Corp’s $44.5 billion takeover bid, may find hiring a replacement chief executive officer more difficult while “Chief Yahoo” Jerry Yang works down the hall....
at 10:19 am by Roy Schestowitz Lobbyists Drive Technology WE wrote about the personal contributions from Steve Ballmer and Bill Gates to politicians only about a fortnight ago. This leaves a lot of room for political...
What will the board have to promise someone to take the job? Well, to start with, it will have to throw in certain financial guarantees. The pay package must have lots of incentives and protections. If it doesn't work out in...