Filed under: Bad news, Yahoo! (YHOO), Employees Not only is new Yahoo!, Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz considering thousands of layoffs from her new corner office, she may be having a hand in freezing wages at the company in 2009. Yahoo! is making a move that's all too common in recent months a...

Businessweek reports: CEO Search: Can Anyone Save Yahoo? What Yahoo needs, say management recruiters and analysts, is someone with the profile of Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) CEO Mark V. Hurd. A low-key operating wizard from the relative tech backwater of NCR (NCR), Hurd has managed to turn around HP in th...

Businessweek reports: CEO Search: Can Anyone Save Yahoo? What Yahoo needs, say management recruiters and analysts, is someone with the profile of Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) CEO Mark V. Hurd. A low-key operating wizard from the relative tech backwater of NCR (NCR), Hurd has managed to turn around HP in th...

Jerry Yang, Yahoo’s CEO, may be learning something about the hard-driving style of management it takes to go it alone after an attempted takeover, especially if he follows Om’s logic and thinks Yahoo is about more than search. This morning, Yahoo said it will allow corporate raider Carl ...

Yahoo’s latest broadside against the “Microsoft-Icahn agenda” has struck a chord with a key investor: Legg Mason Capital Management. The firm on Friday threw its support behind Yahoo, saying it will vote its 4.4 percent stake in Yahoo (60.7 million shares) against the slate of diss...

Remember back in the Dark Ages before text messaging, when a teenager (let’s call him Jerry Yang) might get a best friend (maybe call him Carl Icahn) to call another friend (say, Steve Ballmer) using three-way calling? With Yang sitting silently on the line, the goal would be for Icahn to goad...

Look out Jerry Yang, Carl Icahn now has one fewer distraction as he prepares to propose his slate of dissident board nominees at Yahoo’s Aug. 1 shareholder meeting. At its own shareholder meeting yesterday, Biogen (BIIB) investors voted to support management’s preferred board candidates and ...

OK, Kara Swisher started this discussion, but I question her fundamental assertion that Jerry Yang is the person calling the shots. The memo regarding Jeff Weiner’s departure came from Sue as does most of the primary communication messaging. Many think Sue is the one that is in charge for this...

July 3 will be “Independence Day” for Yahoo (YHOO) shareholders (”Independence day. Heh. “Enjoy The Shareholder Meeting. It May Be Your Last …“). So says Eric Jackson, president of Ironfire Capital, who is doing his damnedest to recruit an alternate slate of direc...

Yahoo shares opened this morning at $23.02, down $5.65 from yesterday's close. However Yahoo has bounced back a bit to just under $25 per share at 1pm, perhaps reflecting investor's optimism that a deal will still be struck with Microsoft after what some - including me - think was a case of MS CEO B...