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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Impossible Questions and the 10 Plagues of Sunnyvale for Yahoo’s Jerry Yang

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Now with billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn hovering–and there will be more opportunistic investors to come, prompted into action by some of Yahoo’s biggest shareholders, including Capital Research’s Gordon Crawford (don’t say BoomTown didn’t warn you, Jerry)–Yahoo is kind of like a town just whipsawed by a tornado and about to endure a flood.

And then some hail. Also, maybe a locust swarm or two.

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Tuesday, May 6, 2008

A History Lesson for Jerry Yang: It Sticks in My Craw(ford)

Yesterday, the powerful portfolio manager at Yahoo’s largest investor, Gordon Crawford of Capital Research Global Investors, a division of Capital Research & Management Co., made some very public and very harsh remarks directed at Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang for blowing the Microsoft deal.

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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. Read more »

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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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