Blogger Charity Smackdown: Do Good and Also Help Kara Get a Free Lunch With...
So I call and email Yahoo PR all the time in what is now a futile quest to get some sit-down interview time with CEO Jerry Yang, whom I have known and covered for, I don’t know, what feels like a...
View ArticleDay 97: Three Days Before Potential Cow Tragedy
We have almost nothing to report today on Yahoo, except to point out that there are only three more days until the official end of CEO Jerry Yang’s 100-day No-Sacred-Cows Vision Quest. While we expect...
View ArticleKara Visits CES: Jerry Yang Emails It In
How glad BoomTown was to finally see Jerry Yang up close and personal, after our valiant but futile efforts to get near the Yahoo co-founder and CEO in 2007. No, we’re not stalking him in a...
View ArticleOpen Season at Yahoo?
According to several sources close to Yahoo, the company will outline in much more detail its open-platform strategy next week, in its efforts to keep its cred as a big supporter of openness and also...
View ArticleBREAKING: MICROSOFT WALKS
After a months-long standoff, Microsoft (MSFT) has abandoned its bid for Yahoo (YHOO), people involved in the discussions said today. Microsoft confirmed to BoomTown that talks between the two...
View ArticleMicroHoo: The Odd Couple Meetings Led Nowhere
After today’s events, I guess you could say Yahoo (YHOO) and Microsoft (MSFT) tried, holding a series of meetings about a possible takeover that ended up proving exactly how incompatible the companies...
View ArticleRumors of Jerry Yang's Dethroning Are Greatly Exaggerated
Off with the Yahoo CEO’s head! OK, maybe not so much, at least today. Indeed, according to many sources, Jerry Yang’s head still sits squarely on his neck. And, moreover, his job as CEO has not been...
View ArticleYang Gets "Adult Supervision" at Microsoft Meetings
Several major investors in Yahoo–who have been, how shall BoomTown put this delicately, freaked out by the sudden departure of Microsoft from the deal two weeks ago–have blamed the passive-aggressive...
View ArticleAnd in Related News: Yahoo Shares Closed Today at $26.40 …
Turns out Jerry Yang isn’t the only Yahoo CEO to reject a buyout offer from Microsoft. His predecessor Terry Semel did as well. According to a complaint unsealed as part of a proposed class-action suit...
View ArticleMicroHoo Back From the Dead? Dream On, Jerry!
Like the zombies in “Night of the Living Dead” who will not die, the notion of a big, sloppy deal for Microsoft to buy Yahoo is revived yet again in an article in The Wall Street Journal today....
View ArticleLiveblogging From Yahoo Annual Meeting: Tim Koogle Returns!
While looking for news, any news, at Yahoo’s annual meeting in San Jose this morning, who should tap BoomTown on the shoulder but a blast-from-the-past Yahoo, former CEO Tim Koogle. Koogle still has...
View ArticleScratch Jerry Yang for Post-CEO "Dancing With the Stars" Gig
“Is that all there is, is that all there is. If that’s all there is my friends, then let’s keep dancing. Let’s break out the booze and have a ball, If that’s all there is.” Peggy Lee sang it best...
View ArticleToo-Powerful Google Thumbs Its Nose at Everyone–Good Luck With That, Eric!
It used to be, many years ago, that longtime Silicon Valley tech exec Eric Schmidt could work up a very significant head of steam when talking about the thuggish monopolistic practices of Microsoft...
View ArticleSilicon Valley Leaders Say No to Proposition 8 With New Group and Ad
Today, a panoply of prominent tech and Internet leaders is taking a very public stand against a controversial initiative before California voters, which would eliminate the current legal right of...
View ArticleEx-Yahoos Weigh In on Their Choices for New Yahoo CEO
With so many more ex-Yahoos out there now that the most recent layoffs have taken place, BoomTown put out feelers to a range of them to ask whom they would like to run the company they no longer work...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleIf Yahoo's Going Social, Is Demand Media Back on Its Dance List?
Last year, Yahoo EVP Hilary Schneider and then-Media Group head Scott Moore had a summery seaside dinner with Demand Media co-founder and CEO Richard Rosenblatt (pictured here) in Santa Monica,...
View ArticleExclusive: 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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