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Wednesday, January 30, 2008

For Yahoo, It Seems, It’s Always Groundhog Day

Oh dear.
Even more waiting for Yahoo to turn itself around? Until 2009? Really? Another 100 days, and another, and another and then more than half of another?
This is starting to feel very, very familiar.
Too familiar.
Well, it did take seven months to replace Farzad Nazem as CTO at a–um, well–technology-dependent company, so perhaps the glacial pace [...]

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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Next Yahoo Executive Shoe–of Many–to Fall?

While it’s corporate sport to focus on the ins and outs of the departure of Terry Semel–was he pushed or did he motor out of Yahoo on his own or, the truth, a little of both?–it’s probably a better idea to look at what will come in the days ahead for Yahoo’s ranks.
Sources tell me [...]

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Monday, June 4, 2007

Yahoo’s Tech Mission Impossible

Who, who, who has the guts to take over running tech at Yahoo, in the wake of the sudden departure last week of CTO Farzad Nazem?
(”Your job, should you choose to accept it, Mr. Phelps, is to beat the Goog Borg.”)
Nazem said in a post on a Yahoo blog that he had decided to [...]

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About Kara

Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference.

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Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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