Is That All There Is? Microsoft Calls it a Day on Yahoo Bid - Posted July 25, 2008
Alas. It looks like maybe, finally, Microsoft has thrown in the Yahoo towel. The last straw in the months long we-love-you, we-love-you-not dealings may have been this week's announcement that proxy-battler Carl Icahn had apparently jumped ship and made amends with Yahoo head Jerry Yang, accepting three... [FishBowlNY]

Icahn Boomerangs Back to Yang, Gets Three Board Seats for His Troubles - Posted July 22, 2008
We can't decide whether this is like the time gun-for-hire Han Solo reconsidered his selfish ways at the last minute and zoomed in to save Luke from Darth Vader. Regardless, with ten days to go until the Yahoo stock holder meeting we will bet this isn't the last plot twist... [FishBowlNY]

Icahn Boomerangs Back to Yang, Gets Three Board Seats for His Troubles - Posted July 22, 2008
We can't decide whether this is like the time gun-for-hire Han Solo reconsidered his selfish ways at the last minute and zoomed in to save Luke from Darth Vader. Regardless, with ten days to go until the Yahoo stock holder meeting we will bet this isn't the last plot twist... [FishBowlNY]

Jerry Yang Speaks, er, Writes! - Posted July 17, 2008
In recent weeks most of the talk about the operatic ins and outs of the Yahoo and Microsoft relationship have centered around what proxy battler Carl Icahn and Microsoft head Steve Ballmer have been up to, and the different ways Yahoo is finding to escape their evil clutches. But the... [FishBowlNY]

Jerry Yang Speaks, er, Writes! - Posted July 17, 2008
In recent weeks most of the talk about the operatic ins and outs of the Yahoo and Microsoft relationship have centered around what proxy battler Carl Icahn and Microsoft head Steve Ballmer have been up to, and the different ways Yahoo is finding to escape their evil clutches. But the... [FishBowlNY]

The King Speaks and Jerry Yang Shows Up - Posted July 11, 2008
Dan Cox, on special assignment for FishbowlLA, covering the 2008 Sun Valley Media Conference. As Herb Allen's Sun Valley retreat started to wind down Friday afternoon, some key executives were already boarding their Lear Jets and scooting home, missing out on speeches from the two RICHEST men in the world. They will... [FishBowlLA]

Google's Eric Schmidt: "We Took the Position That the World is Better Off With An Independent Yahoo!" - Posted July 10, 2008
Dan Cox, on special assignment for FishbowlLA, covering the 2008 Sun Valley Media Conference. Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt stunned the hardened journalist crowd at the Sun Valley Media Conference with an unscheduled 75-minute press conference at which they discussed everything — Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! —... [FishBowlLA]

Icahn Sweet Talks Microsoft Back to the Yahoo Table - Posted July 8, 2008
We're running out of relationship metaphors to describe the on-again, off-again business dealings between Yahoo, Microsoft and more recently, Carl Icahn. As it stands the trio appears to be somewhere between Three's Company and Melrose Place. Over the week-end reports surfaced that Icahn, who is currently waging a proxy... [FishBowlNY]

New York Post Takes Note of Yahoo's Troubles For the Love of Puns - Posted May 6, 2008
We're fairly certain the New York Post could give a rat's ass about the troubles in Sunnyvale involving Yahoo's CEO Jerry Yang and co-founder David Filo. But when copy editors get the chance to write headlines like: BUNCH OF YAHOOS INVESTORS MAY YANK YANG, FILO OVER DOUGH they take it. ... [FishBowlLA]

We're Just Not That Into You: Microsoft Abandons Yahoo Bid at the Last Minute - Posted May 5, 2008
The on-again, off-again affair between Yahoo and Microsoft, rumored to be back on again last Friday was abruptly abandoned over the week-end. According to reports Microsoft walked a away from the deal when Yahoo refused to settle for the additional $5billion Microsoft had agreed to add to its previous $42billion... [FishBowlNY]

Yang Takes Over Yahoo as Semel Steps Aside - Posted June 19, 2007
Terry Semel, the former Hollywood studio boss, stepped aside at Yahoo!, after 6 years in the executive suite. Co-founder and Chief Yahoo Jerry Yang became CEO (here's his My New Job memo) , with Sue Drecker as president. Semel will remain as nonexecutive chairman. Yang is seen by some as a... [FishBowlLA]

Heave-Hoo! Yahoo's Semel Out As CEO - Posted June 19, 2007
Breaking news from late yesterday: Yahoo! Co-Founder Jerry Yang Named Chief Executive Officer Terry Semel Named Non-Executive Chairman Sue Decker Named President Yang and Decker to Focus on Realizing Yahoo!'s Strategic Vision by Accelerating Execution, Further Strengthening Leadership and Fostering a Culture of Winning Sunnyvale, Calif., June 18, 2007 — Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq: YHOO), a leading... [FishBowlNY]