Yahoo Announces Layoffs

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

New CEO Carol Bartz is not timid about wielding her axe to cut costs at former internet high-flyer Yahoo. The cuts are expected to be announced next Tuesday, when YHOO also releases earnings for the first quarter of 2009. According to the New York Times, several hundred jobs ...

Carol Bartz Expected To Become New Yahoo CEO

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

Carol Bartz, a former CEO of Autodesk (NASDAQ:ADSK) is expected to become the next CEO of Yahoo.com, (NASDAQ:YHOO) a major internet search engine and web portal, according to reports at the Wall Street Journal. Bartz, 60, will replace Jerry Yang - one of the companies co-founders. Jerry Yang has been criticized for ...

Carl Icahn To Buyout Yahoo?

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Recently Microsoft abandoned their bid to buyout Yahoo, but it doesn't appear as if the fight for the internet company is over quite yet. According to reports, Carl Icahn has swooped in and purchased 50 million shares of Yahoo stock and it's believed Icahn is planning a proxy fight to oust ...