In a major executive shuffle, LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman is reclaiming his role as CEO and bringing former Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Jeff Weiner in as interim president, per the LAT. Dan Nye, who’s held the CEO post since Hoffman recruited him for the gig in early 2007, did not reveal…

It didn’t come from Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO), of course: Accel Partners and Greylock Partners jointly announced that Jeff Weiner is joining the two VC firms as an EIR, an unusual co-op position for both firms. His new role becomes effective in early September 2008. He will divide his time equally…

It’s Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) version of the plagues—Carl Icahn, shareholder lawsuits, another round of speculation about top-level execs and a report that a major internal announcement is on tap Wednesday. Once again, the fate of Jeff Weiner, due back Monday after a month of paternity leave, leads the exec spec…

Last week at the Web 2.0 Expo, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) took the wraps off its new social initiative dubbed Yahoo! Open Strategy—but it’s not a social network! “The world doesn’t need another social network,” said Jeff Weiner, Network Division EVP of Yahoo, during a Q&A with ContentNext Co-Editor and EVP…

When Marco Boerries and David Filo joined Jerry Yang on the stage of the Las Vegas Hilton Theater to show off new launches and upcoming concepts, the audience at their feet included most of Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) top management—among them Jeff Weiner, who we last heard from here after he…

For a sense of how important the properties are that make up the newly constituted media group at Yahoo, (NSDQ: YHOO) consider this: more than half of the 137 million uniques visiting Yahoo sites in October—70 million or 51.2 percent—visited at least one of the media sites. (That’s an un-duplicated…

Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has made official what we first reported Saturday: the reorganization of the Network division headed by Jeff Weiner, including an expansion of Scott Moore’s portfolio to include all of the company’s major content areas. The changes include narrowing the division from six product lines to four: News…

[with Rafat Ali] Surely the last thing Scott Moore wants to hear is that he’s the new “Lloyd Braun” given all the baggage that brings but we have learned from multiple sources and have confirmed that the latest org changes at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) give him the bulk of Braun’s…