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Tuesday, January 13, 2009

Liveblogging Yahoo’s Bartz as CEO Announcement: Her First Words? “Yahoooo!” and “Friggin’”

Oh, BoomTown really likes Carol Bartz as Yahoo CEO already.

In Yahoo’s conference call today, she has sternly lectured everyone to give Yahoo some “friggin’ breathing room” and noted that the company “frankly, could use a little management.”

The latter is stating the very obvious, but we like hearing it anyway, and she sounds like she is running the show already.

It’s like watching a digital version of “The Gladiator”!

Here is Boomtown’s live blog of the Yahoo call, starring Carol Bartz as its new CEO.

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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.

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