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(Long) Weekend Update, 1.19.09
The Web never stops publishing, but a tech blog definitely slows down on a market holiday. To wit: A (Long) Weekend Update, and best wishes on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Digital Daily covered the...
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Coach Carol: Are They Crying? There's No Crying! There's No Crying at Yahoo!
One of the first things Carol Bartz said when she made her public debut as new Yahoo CEO was that everyone should give the company “some friggin’ breathing room.” Some heard “frickin’,” while others...
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Will Tough-Talking Bartz Reorg Yahoo Soon and Finally Blue-Pill the "Matrix"?
My favorite anecdote collected so far about new Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is the one in which she recently called together two separate groups of execs who were direct reports of former Yahoo CEO Jerry...
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Bartz Holds First Exec Offsite, as the Yahoos Turn (and Twist in the Wind)!
Today, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has convened a two-day offsite of its managers, to bring them all together to talk about the company. Aside from a colorful all-hands meeting she held with the whole...
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Yahoo Content Model Gets Remixed as Product Development Is "Globally"...
Will Yahoo’s media properties fall flat with sweeping new changes that are afoot that will drastically change the way the company bakes its content offerings? Or will the ability to have a single,...
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"Hurricane Carol" Bartz Could Announce a Major Yahoo Management Reorg Next Week
Several sources inside and outside Yahoo told BoomTown that new Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz could be ready to announce a major reorganization of its management structure as early as next week, most likely...
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The Yahoo Management Structure: Who Is In and Who Is Out?
On Friday, BoomTown first reported that new Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is likely to be announcing a sweeping new management structure soon, which can only mean the possibility that some existing top execs...
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Connected Life Head Marco Boerries to Leave Yahoo
Yahoo’s top mobile exec, Marco Boerries, is departing Yahoo, according to an internal email obtained by BoomTown that he sent to some staffers on Sunday. I have also confirmed Boerries’s departure...
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More on Yahoo Reorg in Process: Ari and Hilary Rule, but Who Is Joel Jones?
[UPDATED: With more details on Ash Patel and Joanne Bradford.] “It’s being changed every minute,” joked one Yahoo source about the reorg now in process at Yahoo, which is being shepherded by new CEO...
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Whither Ash Patel–Can Longtime Yahoos Learn New Tricks?
There’s no question Yahoo owes longtime veteran exec Ash Patel a lot, as it has grown into a global Internet behemoth. Since getting to the company in 1996–which essentially means he was present at...
View ArticleBartz Blogs Reorg!: The Entire Memo to Yahoo Employees
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz declared reorg today on the company’s corporate blog, Yodel Anecdotal. Here is her entire memo: Getting our house in order Posted February 26th, 2009 at 9:16 am by Carol Bartz,...
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Former Yahoo Biz Ops SVP McCombs to Tumri as CFO
Yahoo’s ranks keep fanning out all over the tech scene. This time it is former top-ranking Yahoo exec Jeff McCombs (pictured here), who has signed on to be CFO of Tumri, an online advertising...
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From the Desk of Former Yahoo President Sue Decker
Recently–in the echo chamber that is Silicon Valley–several people told BoomTown quite separately that former Yahoo President Sue Decker had become an executive-in-residence at the Blackstone Group....
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WWYD (What Will Yahoo Do?): Deal, Sell, Stand Pat or What?
If BoomTown were to hazard a guess, I would assume Yahoo would, if it could–in the end–sell itself off to Microsoft. That’s just my opinion, of course, but–after all that has gone on and all the time...
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The Yahoo Annual Meeting Circus Rolls Back Into Town Next Week: Send in the...
In exactly one week at 10 am PDT, Yahoo will hold its annual meeting in Silicon Valley, the first time when new CEO Carol Bartz will greet its shareholders in person. She should prep carefully, as the...
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Yahoo Product Head and CTO Ari Balogh Speaks!
In BoomTown’s bold quest to annoyingly stick a Flip digital video camera in the face of every Yahoo senior exec, this week I worked the last nerve of its CTO and EVP of Products, Aristotle “Ari”...
View ArticleYahoo Gag Reel
[ See post to watch video ] Once again for old time’s sake, the Yahoo (YHOO)-Microsoft (MSFT) soap opera in Digital Daily intros, with apologies to Steven Spielberg, Mel Blanc, Queen, Neil Diamond,...
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AOL Readies Board Picks for Spinoff–While Holding Off Search Suitors (Plus,...
According to sources close to the situation, AOL has been busy selecting the board for the company, which is still set to spin itself off by year’s end–even as it slows down a decision on a new search...
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Dozen-Year Yahoo Tech Veteran Ash Patel to Take "Time Off"
Longtime Yahoo tech leader Ash Patel is taking some time off until early 2010. Yahoo (YHOO) confirmed the break to BoomTown. In recent days, many inside the company had mistakenly thought the...
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In Advance of Facebook's F8, COO Sheryl Sandberg Strikes a Pose (In Vogue,...
Dressed in a bright red sheath and posed in front of a tangle of tech doodads, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg gets her Vogue moment this month. Literally, in a prominent feature in the latest issue of...
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Meet the Yahoo Board: Something Old, Something New–But Will They Do Something?
With all the noisy swirl around Yahoo of late–from its executive turmoil to its flat growth to its dashed partnerships in Asia to its brash CEO–its board has been unusually quiet of late. Comatose,...
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Exclusive: Ex-Yahoos–Plus Chief Yahoo Jerry Yang–in New Morado Ventures Fund...
A new $10 million micro-venture fund, led by former Yahoo top engineering exec Ash Patel–called Morado Ventures and funded by a group largely made up of ex-Yahoos–is about to launch, according to...
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An Unlikely Pair (Me and Glamour Magazine, That Is) Tackle Women in Tech...
As readers of mine know, I write a semi-ranty post now and again about the lack of women in high-level tech jobs and on the boards of its major companies. While things are a lot better in the digital...
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My Picks for Yahoo's Next CEO -- Maybe Snoop Dogg, Ya Digg?
The firing of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz leaves open one of the bigger and more difficult jobs in tech — one that has taken its toll on many. Nonetheless, rapper Snoop Dogg stepped right up to the Twitter...
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Ex-Yahoos Getting Downloaded by PE Firms and Others on Possible Deals
One of Yahoo’s biggest problems — brain drain — has turned out to be an asset for private equity firms and other players interested in figuring out their best moves related to the Silicon Valley...
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