If you are feeling a little déjà vu about the news BoomTown broke this morning about new retention packages and enhanced severance benefits for Yahoos, in order to keep them from bolting in the face of Microsoft’s unsolicited bid (and to give them a payout in case it works), you are not wrong.
According to several [...]
The Yahoo board meeting, via phone, went off today without a resolution, as BoomTown surmised in an earlier post today.
See this report on the telephonic meeting from our excellent reporting colleagues at The Wall Street Journal, Kevin Delaney and Matthew Karnitschnig.
As you can see, the breathless reporting that Yahoo’s fate was to be decided today [...]
Don’t miss a terrific Wall Street Journal profile of Yahoo’s new non-executive Chairman Roy Bostock, penned by the always excellent Kevin Delaney in today’s paper. The longtime ad exec has definitely his work cut out for him, given Microsoft’s unsolicited $31 per share bid last week.
In it, Delaney outlines the stakes for Bostock, who was installed only minutes before the Here’s-Johnny! call from Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, demanding to buy Yahoo for $44.6 billion or else.
Yes, indeedy, this is about as insider as you get in Silicon Valley. But we are just addled enough by all the spiked eggnog we drank this weekend to think you might be interested in this video we did at a variety of industry holiday parties BoomTown attended.
They include a stop at angel investor Ron [...]
The Wall Street Journal’s Kevin Delaney had a nice round-up story yesterday about the slowness of Yahoo CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang’s 100-day Vision Quest to turn around the company, a story we have covered obsessively in this blog.
The summary: Not much change coming for the company, which Yang promised to clean up, noting there [...]
Given all the management upheaval at Yahoo, it is nice that The Wall Street Journal’s Kevin Delaney focused his attention on what might someday come for the current leader, Google, which gets to be the can-do-no-wrong company of the moment, a status Yahoo used to own.
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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