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Saturday, December 13, 2008

Ex-Yahoos Weigh In on Their Choices for New Yahoo CEO

With so many more ex-Yahoos out there now, BoomTown put out feelers to a range of them to ask whom they would like to run the company they no longer work for. After all, who better than to pick a new CEO than an ex? The response was swift and varied wildly, depending on which way the ex-Yahoo felt the company should go, from a basic turnaround expert to–drum roll, please–his digital Holiness, Steve Jobs of Apple. No kidding.

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Wednesday, April 16, 2008

MicroHoo: History Lesson No. 1– Time Warner Tries to Buy Yahoo

While we are waiting for the season finale of the Microsoft-AOL-Yahoo takeover–too bad we can’t blame the writers’ strike for the lugubrious pace of this deal–BoomTown will take you back in time to equally edge-of-your-seat times in Internet history in a series of surprisingly familiar stories.
Eerily familiar, in fact!
As you might imagine, while everyone is [...]

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Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Yang Is the Man?

I was wrong.

I have to say I never thought that Jerry Yang would screw up the guts to actually move CEO Terry Semel out of his job and move right in as CEO.
As I have written in many posts, such as this one, I thought Semel would go, but take his own sweet time [...]

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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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