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What The Analysts Asked Yahoo Today, And How The New CEO Responded

Jan 4, 2012 9:50 PM

The markets didn’t punish Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) today when it announced it would appoint a payments technology specialist, Scott Thompson, as its CEO to run a business largely built on content, search and advertising. But it didn’t exactly reward it, either: the stock closed down by 51 cents at $15.82,…

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Posted In: Advertising, Legal, Privacy, Marketing, Mobile, Search, Companies, Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Countries, Asia, carol bartz, paypal, scott thompson

Yahoo May Finally Launch Digital Newsreader Livestand As Soon As This Week

Oct 3, 2011 7:11 AM

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has been no stranger to the apps rush that has swept through the mobile world, and now there are signs that it is looking to redouble its tablet efforts with a new HTML5 product. PaidContent understands that it is preparing for an autumn launch, possibly as soon…

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Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Gadgets, Tablets, Mobile, Events, Mobile World Congress, Companies, Apple, iPad, iPhone, Google, Android, Yahoo, Zynga, blake irving, carol bartz

Carol Bartz Speaks: ‘These People F*cked Me Over’

Sep 8, 2011 11:24 AM

Forget the heated discussions over Carol Bartz’s graceless e-mail in response to a graceless firing by phone. A whole new round is about to kick in with a no-shunt exit interview. Bartz tells Fortune’s Pattie Sellers:

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Posted In: Companies, Yahoo, carol bartz, roy bostock

Updated: Yahoo Stock Watch: Investors React Favorably To Bartz’s Exit

Sep 7, 2011 10:29 AM

Carol Bartz’s exit is the best thing to happen to Yahoo’s stock in a week. Update: Yahoo’s stock closed at 13.61 on Wednesday afternoon, up 5.4 percent from yesterday’s close at 12.91. After closing at 12.91 before Bartz announced she had been fired on Tuesday, Yahoo’s stock opened 6.3 percent…

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Posted In: Money, Companies, Yahoo, carol bartz

How Bartz Didn’t Help Yahoo Mobile

Sep 6, 2011 9:00 PM

From her moment signing on as CEO, to the moment she informed her staff of her dismissal via an iPad, mobile has been a persistent force during Bartz’s tenure at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). And not always for the best: the company has found it a challenge to find its place…

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Posted In: Advertising, Mobile, Search, carol bartz

Here’s The New Yahoo Leadership Structure (For Now)

Sep 6, 2011 8:45 PM

More than an hour after the news broke that Carol Bartz was out as CEO of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), the board finally has weighed in with details of how the company will operate during the search for a new CEO. (Although, honestly, why couldn’t they simply segue to another CEO…

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Posted In: Companies, Yahoo, blake irving, carol bartz, michael callahan, rich riley, rose tsou, ross levinsohn, tim morse

Updated: Bartz Out At Yahoo; Fired Over The Phone

Sep 6, 2011 6:59 PM

Push has finally come to shove at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). Kara Swisher reports that Carol Bartz is out at Yahoo and that CFO Tim Morse is interim CEO. Bartz has been rumored to be out the door almost as long as she has been at Yahoo; the drumbeat only has…

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Posted In: Companies, Yahoo, carol bartz, tim morse

Yahoo Board Backs CEO Bartz Amid Questions From Testy Shareholders

Jun 23, 2011 1:25 PM

The big question at Yahoo’s annual shareholder meetings over the last couple of years has been when the clock will run out on Carol Bartz. The Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO survived her third shareholder’s meeting on Thursday with the support of the company’s board, despite Yahoo’s turnaround being stuck in…

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Posted In: Entertainment, Games, Animation, Companies, Facebook, Google, Hulu, Microsoft, Yahoo, carol bartz

Yahoo’s Levinsohn: ‘I’m Not Crazy’

Jun 6, 2011 5:00 AM

Three Junes ago, Ross Levinsohn and his investment partner Jon Miller were caught up in the drama of Yahoo as Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) tried to acquire the company. Their names, individually and separately, were bandied about as possible board members or candidates to run Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). Now both are…

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Posted In: Advertising, Companies, Microsoft, News Corp., Yahoo, carol bartz, fuse capital, jon miller, ross levinsohn

@ D9: Alibaba’s Jack Ma: ‘Peace Talks Are Always Difficult’

Jun 1, 2011 8:49 PM

Alibaba Group CEO Jack Ma wants Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and SoftBank to give up some of their stake in the Chinese internet company. “We want to get back some of the shares to make sure the company is getting healthier,” said Ma, the largest indiviudal shareholder. The three companies most…

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Posted In: Events, D Conference, Companies, Yahoo, Countries, Asia, China, carol bartz, jack ma

Earnings
Yahoo’s Bartz Acknowledges ‘Issues’ In Search

Apr 19, 2011 5:10 PM

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz acknowledged during the company’s earnings call Tuesday that the company’s search operations were “encountering some issues,” saying that the company’s search alliance with Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) was not yet producing the revenue per search Yahoo had hoped for. But Bartz said she was “confident”…

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Posted In: Money, Earnings, Search, Companies, Yahoo, carol bartz

@ MWC: Bartz: Our Secret Sauce Is An Editorial Team That’s Always Watching

Feb 16, 2011 3:59 AM

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz today said an army of editorial curators, not algorithms, who are “always watching” were the “secret sauce” at Yahoo, as she showed off the company’s digital newsstand, dubbed Livestand, during her keynote at the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona. She said that Yahoo…

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Posted In: Advertising, Apps, Media & Publishing, Magazines, Mobile, Events, Mobile World Congress, Companies, Yahoo, carol bartz

Bartz: ‘Do I Look Like A Wimp? I Am Here To Stay’

Oct 20, 2010 6:01 PM

Asked by Fox Business about a “cacophony of analysts screaming and yelling about her grace period is over, is she going to go” Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz said this afternoon, “Do I look like a wimp? I am here to stay.” Bartz also said there’s no need for…

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Posted In: Companies, Yahoo, carol bartz

Guest Voices
The Case For Carol Bartz

Sep 22, 2010 10:29 AM

Mark May is a managing director and senior internet and digital-media research analyst at Needham & Company, LLC, a full-service growth-company investment bank. My goal in writing this is not to argue that Carol Bartz is the best CEO I’ve come across over my 11 years as an internet analyst…

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Posted In: Features, Guest Voices, Search, Social Media, Companies, Yahoo, carol bartz

Earnings
Yahoo Explains Its Sales Shortfall

Jul 20, 2010 5:10 PM

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz acknowledged during the company’s conference call that neither the company’s search ad business or its display ad business had performed as well as Yahoo had wanted. Bartz said however that the company didn’t get the sense that there was a slowdown in the online…

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Posted In: Advertising, Money, Earnings, Companies, Yahoo, carol bartz

The Quotable Bartz: Yahoo Annual Meeting Edition

Jun 24, 2010 2:30 PM

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz got the typical—“your China policy needs reworking”—and not so typical—“you should go into politics”—feedback from shareholders during the open question and answer period at the company’s annual meeting today. Her responses were as quotable as always. Some highlights below: —On China: Like last year,…

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Posted In: Money, Companies, Yahoo, carol bartz

Carol Bartz On ‘The Internet Of One’

May 4, 2010 12:05 AM

There are plenty of sexy quotes in the May Esquire interview of Carol Bartz and then there’s her explanation of Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and the theory of one, a lot less fun than how to avoid hiring a-holes or why not to eat breakfast with her but worth a look.…

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Posted In: Companies, Yahoo, carol bartz, esquire

Yahoo CEO Bartz’s Total Compensation Package In 2009: $47 Million

Apr 29, 2010 5:39 PM

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz made $47 million in total compensation last year, according to Yahoo’s just-filed proxy statement. That includes roughly $13 million in stock awards, $29 million in options, $2.5 million to make up for benefits she forfeited at her previous employer, and $109,945 in apparently very…

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Posted In: Money, Companies, Yahoo, carol bartz

Carol Bartz Has Some Advice For Google

Apr 29, 2010 2:00 PM

Plenty of people have pointed out that Google (NSDQ: GOOG) makes almost all its money from search. But given that Google’s revenue jumped 19 percent last quarter while Yahoo’s was flat, maybe Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz isn’t the best person to be doling out advice to Mountain View?…

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Posted In: Companies, Google, Yahoo, carol bartz

Earnings
Yahoo’s Bartz: “Large Advertisers Came Back”

Apr 20, 2010 4:58 PM

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz portrayed the company’s quarterly financial results as “solid” during Yahoo’s earnings call—pointing to a 20 percent increase in display ad sales as a sign that “large advertisers came back.” Businesses that cut back on their ad spending during the recession, she said, are now…

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Posted In: Money, Earnings, Companies, Yahoo, carol bartz

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