Meet Ross Levinsohn, The New Guy in Charge of Yahoo
Ross Levinsohn, appointed Sunday as interim CEO, doesn’t have to learn Yahoo — he’s spent the last 18 months immersed in it.
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All this crying over how much this Yahoo acquisition will ruin Tumblr is a predictable part of the cycle of tech company acquisitions these days — no matter how smart or dumb the buy — and says nothing about how the impending marriage will do.
Ross Levinsohn, appointed Sunday as interim CEO, doesn’t have to learn Yahoo — he’s spent the last 18 months immersed in it.
The Wall Street Journal reports that shortly before stepping down as CEO, Scott Thompson told Yahoo's board that he was recently diagnosed with thyroid cancer.
A little over four months since starting the job, a fudged resume is forcing Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson's to announce will step down from his position for "personal reasons" on Monday.
Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has pulled a Jonah Goldberg to explain away the résumé scandal that's surrounded him this week. Like Goldberg, who blamed his publisher for touting two Pulitzer Prize nominations he was never received, Thomspon is claiming someone else fudged his credentials.
Someone had to take a fall in the scandal over Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson's faked company bio, and the first to go is Patti Hart, the Yahoo director who led the search that got Thompson hired in the first place.
Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson is only four months into his big job running one of the world's largest tech companies, and he's already found himself in a scandal—and it's a sort of funny scandal at that.
AOL shareholders must be beside themselves after the company offloaded over 800 patents to Microsoft in a deal worth about $1 billion.
Whatever factors are contributing to the recent U.S. job growth, Yahoo's clearly not one of them, as the firm announced on Wednesday that it was cutting 2,000 jobs, or 14 percent of its workforce.
As they look to take a huge bite out of traditional TV’s nearly $50 billion in annual advertising spending over the next two years, big digital video companies Yahoo and YouTube are taking particular aim at the women’s lifestyle programming segment.
Patent wars are a tech-company rite of passage these days, and now Facebook can say it has joined that expensive and catty club with the counter lawsuit it just filed against Yahoo.
A new surge in patent lawsuits shows that Chicago, not Silicon Valley, is setting the rules for how patents should encourage innovation.
A recent resignation of Google engineer James Whittaker confirms Google's company culture has changed, shifting from a tech focused innovation hub to an advertising driven product manufacturing machine.
At noon today, the White House will unveil a Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights announcing the cooperation of Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and AOL on a plan to install "Do Not Track" technology in Web browsers.
More bad news for the floundering Yahoo, as talks over the sale of its Asian assets have been put on hold, reports AllThingsD's Kara Swisher.
Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock and three of his fellow board members bowed out of their roles at America's former homepage on Tuesday afternoon.
Yahoo's hiring of Oliver Knox as its first White House correspondent points to the company's growing aspirations as a producer of original news content beyond the massive aggregation system it already has in place.
Yahoo's co-founder Jerry Yang, who started the company 17 years ago, announced Tuesday he is retiring from the board and from all his other positions.
Regardless of the various interpretations about how and why it ended up at the decision, it looks fairly certain that Yahoo will benefit by putting a big huge nerd like Scott Thompson at its helm.
AllThingsD's Kara Swisher has the scoop that Yahoo is ready to name Scott Thompson, current president of eBay's PayPal service, as its next CEO.
Yahoo has won a $610 million judgment against the masterminds of an email-based lottery scheme.
Yahoo's not worth as much as it had hoped, receiving bids for a minority stake between $16 and $18 per share, far short of its high $20 expectations.
Months after announcing its sale and the ensuing speculation over buyers, Yahoo will reportedly sit down today and talk about the possibility of selling a minority stake in its company to one of various bidders.
Microsoft is continuing to flirt with the idea of making a bid to buy Yahoo, an aggressive move that experts think would sling the aging tech company back onto the cutting edge.
Three of the old fogies of the tech industry can't seem to get enough of tousling in bed together.
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong feels confident enough with his company's middling third quarter earnings, released today, to tell the world that, no, AOL doesn't want to merger with Yahoo, despite rumors to the contrary.
With all these big Internet names floating around, let's take a look at the chances any of these companies will make it out with Yahoo in hand.
The Wall Street Journal has word from two private-equity firms that Google is interested in purchasing the "core business" of its rival Yahoo--a move that could put it up against other tech giant, Microsoft, in its bid for the company.
Despite revenue dipping 24 percent and profits sinking 26 percent, the company's third quarter results weren't as bad as Wall Street expected
Microsoft is considering a bid, again
Alibaba CEO Jack Ma told a crowd at Stanford he wants to buy the search company
In a leaked company-wide memo, CEO Jerry Yang admits he's talking to potential buyers
Mark Zuckerberg's once cutting edge company is starting to look a lot like Yahoo
According to The Wall Street Journal, Marc Andreessen is one of Yahoo's many suitors
This is the third time this has happened, and the reactions just get crazier every time
We've heard this one before
Google's not the only Internet company trying to look green
A major Yahoo investor is now calling for a brand new board of directors
Of course, her public use of profanity was one of the reasons she was canned
Ousting the CEO of a failing company isn't what makes the move anti-woman
That is, if Yahoo would be willing to sell
With a dismal 33 percent approval rating from employees, Bartz was not very popular
Testing the old social psychology theory is fun for you and for advertisers
Porn has always been a problem for user-generated websites
According to the Los Angeles Times, they're in 'preliminary talks' to buy the online video hub
Many rumors, few confirmed facts swirl around a potential Hulu deal
Chad Hurley and Steve Chen promise to keep the service running and improve it
More evidence today that repressive regimes are using social media for surveillance
A woman who once worked under the current Yahoo CEO tells her story
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