Full Coverage: Carol Bartz Named New Yahoo CEO
by Kara Swisher
Posted on January 13, 2009 at 1:00 PM PT
Yahoo’s board has approved Carol Bartz for the company’s top job and Bartz has accepted. What happens next? Yahoo’s CEO post has been the subject of speculation of one kind or another for most of the past year, and BoomTown’s had the right story earlier–and more often–than anywhere else. Tune in here for the latest developments in the ongoing story.
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Comments
looks like Yahoo got the CEO it could, not the one it should
Autodesk?
Are you serious?
That was a popular company about 25 years ago
More evidence that Yang and his baloney board have no clue about the future of the web or media.
Posted by Sam Harrison at January 13th, 2009 at 9:52 pmp.s. I wish her well…but I think we are seeing the last 5 years of Yahoo as a power player
Posted by Sam Harrison at January 13th, 2009 at 9:53 pmp.p.s
Kara, you had so many candidates in your daily speculation report that with Carol being named CEO it really goes to show you had/have no clue
What happened to Frank Biondi, Jon Miller, etc. whom you touted every friggin’ day as the potential CEO
Just goes to show you your hype was just hype
Stick to the facts, isn’t that a tenet of journalism?
Posted by Sam Harrison at January 13th, 2009 at 9:55 pmS:
I made lists of possible CEOs, Sam. I did not say the board was picking them. I said they were likely people to look at, based on talking to headhunters, SV folks and investors.
I also did a piece on suggestions for CEO by ex-Yahoos.
I wrote all that as such, as suggestions and not facts.
I only reported four definite facts:
That News Corp. COO Peter Chernin was called by Yahoo about the job and turned them down. He did. (http://kara.allthingsd.com/200.....se-emerge/)
That Sue Decker was an internal candidate, but she would not get it and would likely leave. She did. (http://kara.allthingsd.com/200.....what-next/)
Several times, that several Yahoo board members raised their hands for the job. They did.
And, last week and first before anyone, that Carol Bartz was the #1 choice of the board. She was. (http://kara.allthingsd.com/200.....rol-bartz/)
Why don’t you read what I write, which has been highly accurate, rather than making a specious point?
I stuck to the facts and have broken every major story this year, from all the departing execs to the collapse of the Microsoft deal to the departure of CEO Jerry Yang. Check your facts. And stop reading if you think it is hype, but those who pay attention know this is the place for true news.
Posted by Kara Swisher at January 13th, 2009 at 10:04 pmS:
As an added note, I was looking at old Yahoo CEO stories I did and noticed you brought up several names for CEO in comments, including former Yahoo execs Tim Koogle and Jeff Mallett.
Hype! Plus you were wrong!
Still, I will try to forgive you.
Posted by Kara Swisher at January 13th, 2009 at 10:32 pm