Carol Bartz was unceremoniously fired by the chairman of Yahoo's board via a phone call. In 2006, a well-known national electronics retailer created some less than favorable PR when the company fired hundreds of employees through e-mail. What's next? Text! A humorous look at how to can employees in 17 chilly syllables. READ»
It outsourced its search business to Microsoft; it sold off popular properties like Delicious; and it made plays for original content, mobile, and social. So what is Yahoo? READ»
International expansion can happen almost by accident -- if you're a consumer Internet company, you get offered a deal by a big German partner, or if you're an enterprise software company, your sales guys sign a bluebird deal in Japan to make the quarter -- but that rarely turns out well.READ»
In an earnings call Tuesday, Yahoo CFO Tim Morse said he had not seen data on the company's mobile search market share. We have. Google's share is 98%.READ»
When news leaked out that Yahoo might be deep-sixing the world’s favorite bookmarking site, the Internet lit up with angry comments. But disciplined companies must be ready to kill their little darlings. Here’s why Yahoo’s move may make sense.READ»
Yahoo isn't a search company, according to CEO Carol Bartz. It isn't interested in fighting the behemoth that is Google. That war is far too costly to wage.READ»
Think the scrutiny of managing the Yahoo fishbowl is unnerving? Maybe you wouldn't be fazed by having all those eyes on you if you'd grown up with pig eyeballs on your dinner plate. The CEO of Yahoo on the challenges of leading, making mistakes, and cursing people out.READ»
Yahoo calls it "increasing your social IQ," and seasoned social networkers might just call it bandwagon-jumping. We are, of course, referring to the relaunch of Yahoo Profiles--now called Pulse--a massive Facebook connect ...READ»
It's hard to think of a more daunting job than succeeding Jerry Yang as CEO of Yahoo after the company's stock dropped from $33 to $12 during the last year of his tenure. But Carol Bartz has done it before.READ»
Before getting into how we feel about Yahoo’s new marketing campaign, let’s get the news out of the way. The company's new slogan is “It Starts With Y!ou.” That’s their spelling (or misspelling), not ours. Yahoo is spending ...READ»
We thought it was a done deal: Yahoo and Microsoft were cosying up together, with Bing superceding Yahoo's own search engine. Now there's news Yahoo may let users choose which engine runs on their pages. What's going on?This data has ...READ»
Scrape away all the wizardry, and the Harry Potter films are about a company that unites behind a leader to defeat its foes. Which got us thinking about the real world wizards of finance and technology. In short, who in the business world is equivalent to our heroes and who deserves the title of He Who Must Not Be Named?READ»
Yahoo has just refreshed its Music Pages service with bunch of new band-configurable widgets that sort of turn it into the MySpace of the Music Industry: an interesting move, considering how many bands use MySpace for self-promotion ...READ»
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