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21 Jun, 2007 5:04 pm
Yahoo is at some sort of crossroad. Terry Semel has resigned as Chief Executive Officer, replaced by
Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang. Semel worked at Warner Brothers for years and brought a media company mentality to Yahoo. That sent Yahoo down...
18 Jun, 2007 4:11 pm
As Yahoo announced that Terry S. Semel was stepping down as chief executive of the beleaguered
Internet giant, two questions arise: Is Yahoo in play? What now for the shareholder activists? In a bid to shake up the search giant, which has long been lagging Google, Yahoo said that
Mr. Semel will become nonexecutive chairman. Cofounder [...]
19 Jun, 2007 5:40 am
As Yahoo announced late Monday that Terry S. Semel was stepping down as its chief executive,
at least two big questions immediately arose: Is the Internet giant in play? And will shareholder activists jump into the game? The departure of Mr. Semel, who will be succeeded as chief executive by the company's cofounder [...]
1 Feb, 2008 12:16 pm
Late on Thursday, Yahoo said that Terry S. Semel, its chairman and former chief executive, was
leaving the company. It appointed Roy J. Bostock, another director, to replace him. Of course, on his first day in the new job, Mr. Bostock was forced to confront a gigantic new
development: Microsoft's $44.6 billion offer for the ailing [...]
2 Jun, 2008 4:28 am
Former Yahoo and Warner Bros. Entertainment chief, Terry Semel, plans to make a run at acquiring
private-equity investor Teddy Forstmann's IMG marketing and talent agency, The New York Post reported. Mr. Semel, who reportedly
launched Windsor Media Capital earlier this year, has been meeting with private-equity firms and the sovereign wealth funds of the United Arab [...]
13 Feb, 2008 6:23 am
The Yahoo pink slips starting flowing yesterday - a rumored 1000 Yahoos cut. I got a text message from one of my friends at Yahoo with the succinct headline "Laid off." I've been a
Yahoo stockholder for some time, and I'm glad to see the stock price rising back into the $30/share range. And I suppose that laying off 1000 people will only further add momentum to
Yahoo's share prices. But as a
3 Mar, 2008 12:17 pm
As always, I love receiving comments on my posts - I read every single one and now just need to do a better job of responding on a regular basis. Here are some recent comments that I
enjoyed and my responses: On Google Stock Dropping on comScore Data: Alan from the Rimm-Kaufmann Group wrote: "For what it is worth, our agency's PPC same-client spend on Google
is still increasing, and increasing
15 Mar 12:04 pm
By 1916 Henry Ford was a rich man: his company was making $60,000,000 of profit a year (in 1916 dollars!) and he was the dominant shareholder. Rich beyond belief, he made a shocking
announcement to Ford's shareholders - rather than paying out the profit in the form of dividends, he wanted to invest it back in the company to "employ still more men; to spread
the benefits ofthis industrial system
4 Dec, 2006 6:24 pm
... about British online advertising exceeding that in the States. Nearly 8 percent of British ad dollars went online, compared with 4.6 percent in the United States. Some believe
it's because of the national focus of advertising in Britain, as opposed to local in the United States. Others like Yahoo CEO Terry
Semel believe the US is just lagging a year or two behind. Consensus seems to be that the Brits may just ...
29 Jun, 2007 5:15 am
We are discussing North Dakota's attempt to compete for charters, not by out Delawaring Delaware but by adopting a law that gives shareholders a bevy of rights that go well
beyond what Delaware typically ... study did not, however, determine the number of non-CEO chairmen deemed independent. Thus, for example, when Terry Semel stepped down as CEO of Yahoo last week, he agreed to serve as non-executive chairman of the board. Under
the NYSE or NASDAQ definitions, he would not be considered independent. ...
7 Jun, 2007 4:25 am
Yahoo's Terry Semel may be heading for a pay cut. As the Internet giant continues to lag
behind Google, and with its much ballyhooed Panama project - the nickname for the firm's major overhaul of its search advertising system - yet to materialize, investors and
industry observers are casting a critical eye on the chief [...]
12 Jun, 2007 4:48 am
When Terry S. Semel, Yahoo's chief executive, faces shareholders at the
company's annual meeting on Tuesday, questions over his pay package are expected to be a hot topic for some investors. While the question of Mr. Semel's compensation, which is among the largest in corporate America, will undoubtedly be near the top of the list, The [...]
20 Jun, 2007 4:42 am
... for debate. […] Competing with Google in search is costly, and there are no guarantees that Yahoo will ever match Google's ever-improving algorithms. Even it if it succeeds
in narrowing the gap somewhat, Yahoo could make more money by simply ... his $5 billion offer for Dow Jones. The talks with Yahoo are preliminary and began before chief executive
Terry S. Semel resigned Monday, said a source familiar with the situation who spoke on
condition of anonymity because the discussion is ongoing. It is ...
20 Jun, 2007 5:17 am
As industry watchers tried to divine whether Yahoo would be put in play following the the resignation of Terry S. Semel as the Internet giant's chief executive, The New York Times suggested that another radical proposition is being whispered inside and outside the
company: stop trying to beat Google at its own game. Just as intriguingly, [...]
21 Jun, 2007 4:29 am
Just one day after the management shake-up at Yahoo, the company's board was called on to make a decision that had nothing to do with the resignation of Terry S. Semel as chief executive or the appointment of the co-founder Jerry Yang to succeed him. The board
voted Tuesday to approve the acquisition of Rivals.com, an [...]
16 Nov 8:33 pm
... September. Even some death penalty opponents hailed Friday's announcement by state prisons chief Terry Collins to replace a protocol
using a three-drug lethal ... step by abandoning the barbaric practice of paralyzing inmates before executing them," said Elisabeth Semel, a
law professor and director of the Death Penalty Clinic at UC Berkeley ... courts can determine whether the one-drug method satisfies the 8th Amendment's prohibition of cruel and
unusual punishment. Legal analysts say that they expect ...
5 Jun, 2007 11:57 pm
... D" were just too good: Gates, Jobs, Diller, Larry and Sergey, Meg Whitman, Terry Semel, Mark
Cuban. I mean, give me a break. Year two: Gates, Jobs, ... Nonetheless, I strongly urge you to watch the videos of the conversation over at Kara and Walt's great new "news and
opinion site" called AllThingsD.com. In the videos you will see a ... phrase that brought us to our feet -- a snipped right out of a love letter -- "There's that one line in the
Beatles song, 'You and I have memories longer than the road ...
5 Jun, 2007 11:57 pm
... D" were just too good: Gates, Jobs, Diller, Larry and Sergey, Meg Whitman, Terry Semel, Mark
Cuban. I mean, give me a break. Year two: Gates, Jobs, ... Nonetheless, I strongly urge you to watch the videos of the conversation over at Kara and Walt's great new "news and
opinion site" called AllThingsD.com. In the videos you will see a ... phrase that brought us to our feet -- a snipped right out of a love letter -- "There's that one line in the
Beatles song, 'You and I have memories longer than the road ...
5 Jun, 2007 11:57 pm
... D" were just too good: Gates, Jobs, Diller, Larry and Sergey, Meg Whitman, Terry Semel, Mark
Cuban. I mean, give me a break. Year two: Gates, Jobs, ... Nonetheless, I strongly urge you to watch the videos of the conversation over at Kara and Walt's great new "news and
opinion site" called AllThingsD.com. In the videos you will see a ... phrase that brought us to our feet -- a snipped right out of a love letter -- "There's that one line in the
Beatles song, 'You and I have memories longer than the road ...
19 Jun, 2007 2:02 pm
... arm to Washington Post subsidiary Kaplan, thwarting the belated ambitions of Fairfax Media's business media arm. Read more here (from The Australian). The US 6th Circuit ...
in 20 years. Read more here (from Wired). The world governing body for men's tennis is to launch a global social networking website for fans and players. Read ... PC World). In a
surprise move, Yahoo's board announces co-founder Jerry Yang will replace Terry Semel as CEO
of the company. Semel will stay on as non-executive chairman, ...
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