tech.yahoo.com - 11/18/2008
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SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo Inc . shares shot up 11 percent Tuesday as investors took the resignation of CEO Jerry Yang to mean Microsoft Corp . is more likely to make another bid for the ailing Internet company. Yang's emotional attachment to the company he co-founded in 1995 is one of the reasons ...
blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com - 11/19/2008
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blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com —
Some past and present Microsoft executives are being
suggested today as possible candidates to replace Jerry Yang
as CEO of Yahoo. Among them: > Kevin Johnson , the CEO of Juniper Networks, who was until September the president of the Platform & ...
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Will a Microsoft veteran become Yahoo CEO?
news.cnet.com - 11/24/2008
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news.cnet.com —
Microsoft is expected to rebrand and relaunch its
Windows Live Search, according to various reports. There have
been tremors on the Web that Microsoft was considering a new brand name for Live Search, and now the site LiveSide is reporting that ...
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Windows Live Search to be rebranded Kumo?
pcworld.com - 11/13/2008
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pcworld.com —
Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said today in
Sydney, Australia that the software giant is not interested
in taking over Yahoo anymore. After Google abandoned this week a much-needed advertising partnership, Yahoo is now facing a difficult ...
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Microsoft Doesn't Want Yahoo Either
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Jerry Yang to step down as Yahoo's CEO
The Tech Report: News —
... 6:00 AM on November 18, 2008 At this point, Yahoo co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang is probably kicking himself for not making things work with Microsoft. The Associated Press reports that Yang has decided to step down from his position as soon as the company finds a replacement. Yahoo has already started "interviewing candidates" both inside and outside the firm. Yang announced his decision less than two weeks after seeing Google ...
Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang resigns
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... firm Heidrick & Struggles.
It didn't take long for analysts to conclude Yang's departure will clear the way for a major overhaul that could culminate in Yahoo's sale to Microsoft something Yang refused to do in May, to the great irritation of shareholders.
"We still believe Microsoft will eventually own Yahoo," UBS analyst Benjamin Schachter wrote in a research note late Monday. "Jerry moving out of the CEO role may accelerate this."
More info at Yahoo News. Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang resigns - More news at DV ...
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Home - THE INQUIRER 11/18/2008
Nick Farrell the Inquirer , Tuesday 18 November 2008. 08:01:00 Leaving the helm of the ship he sank YAHOO FOUNDER Jerry Yang has finally decided to quit the search engine outfit just before the the good ship Yahoo's bow rises into the air ...
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