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NEWS ABOUT: Jerry Yang

Jerry Yang stories: 52 news summaries

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1,000 to Lose Jobs as Yahoo Profits Fall 23%

Will continue to face 'headwinds' this year as online ad revenues sink

Jan 30, 08 3:25 AM CST
(Newser) - After a 23% plummet in fourth quarter profits, Yahoo's CEO said the company will face job cuts and continued "headwinds" in 2008, the Wall Street Journal reports. Facing decreased advertiser spending, the company will lay off 1,000 employees next month, though it will try to relocate some within... More »

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Yahoo • Internet • layoffs • business • Jerry Yang • Susan Decker • AT and T • Internet advertising

Reshuffling Yahoo Casts Off Another Exec

As company narrows priorities, shrinking media group is hit hard

Jan 16, 08 1:58 PM CST
(Newser) - Another key media honcho is leaving Yahoo, the latest casualty of the company’s effort to narrow focus and scale back peripheral operations. Vince Broady was a senior VP and headed Yahoo’s entertainment division. The New York Times Miguel Helft blogs that his departure is no surprise, given... More »

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Harry Potter • media • Yahoo • Jerry Yang • Star Wars • Brand Universe • Vince Broady

Uneasy Lies the Yahoo That Wears Crown

Portal eyes overhaul
to preserve slipping top-dog status

Jan 14, 08 2:52 PM CST
(Newser) - With Google, Facebook, and MySpace gnawing at its top-dog status, Yahoo is reinventing some foundation applications to make them appeal to a new generation of users, reports the New York Times. First step? Turbocharging Yahoo Mail to make it more a communications hub and less a post office, a prototype... More »

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Yahoo • Google • MySpace • Facebook • Jerry Yang • Consumer Electronics Show • Yahoo Mail • web portal • web traffic

Yahoo Trumpets Mobile Access

Web portal expands portable handset functionality

Jan 8, 08 3:46 PM CST
(Newser) - Yahoo is moving to expand the reach of its services with new software designed for mobile devices, CEO Jerry Yang said yesterday as he vowed to "get Yahoo yodeling again." Dubbed Yahoo Go 3.0, the software aims to provide users with access to the usual weather and... More »

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Yahoo • Internet • Jerry Yang • mobile • Yahoo Go

OPINION

Yahoo VPs Dropping
Like Flies

And that's a good thing, argues Kara Swisher on All Things Digital

Dec 14, 07 5:18 PM CST
(Newser) - "This slimming down is a good idea, given Yahoo’s VP obesity," writes Kara Swisher in All Things Digital. She says it's not clear who's behind the departures of numerous execs from the notoriously top-heavy company, nor who jumped and who was pushed out. But a source called... More »

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Yahoo • Internet • Silicon Valley • Jerry Yang • management

Families of Jailed Chinese Dissidents Slam Yahoo

Hope Congressional hearings will bring pressure for men's release

Nov 8, 07 1:01 AM CST
(Newser) - Families of two jailed Chinese dissidents who appeared at Congressional hearings on the matter yesterday say they hope hearings would pressure China to release the men, who were imprisoned after Yahoo released information about them to their government. After the hearing, Yahoo execs met with the family members privately, apologizing... More »

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China • Yahoo • Congressional hearings • Jerry Yang • Tom Lantos • Michael Callahan

Yahoo Takes Heat for Role in Chinese Case

Congressman calls company 'spineless' for surrendering email

Nov 6, 07 3:48 PM CST
(Newser) - Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang suffered intense criticism from a senior Democratic congressman today for not being entirely forthcoming about the search engine's role in the imprisonment of a Chinese dissident, the Financial Times reports. Yahoo had told the House foreign affairs committee it didn't know why Chinese authorities wanted information... More »

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Yahoo • Jerry Yang • Tom Lantos • House Foreign Affairs Committee • Shi Tao

Lonely at the Top for Yahoo CEO Yang

Company co-founder talks about the struggle to stay relevant

Oct 24, 07 12:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - Being the CEO of Yahoo is no cakewalk, according to co-founder Jerry Yang, speaking yesterday at a conference in California, News.com reports. "It is a lonely job in the sense that you have to make some of the tough calls," Yang said of the job he finally... More »

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Yahoo • Google • Web 2.0 • Jerry Yang • search engine marketing • search engine

Yahoo Marketing Chief Resigns

Cammie Dunaway latest exec to step down as search firm seeks to reinvent itself

Oct 20, 07 1:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - Yahoo's Chief Marketing Officer is moving on to greener pastures, as Cammie Dunaway will leave the company at the end of the month, News.com reports. Dunaway, named one of the top 100 marketers by Advertising Age, is the latest in a string of executive departures since founder Jerry... More »

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Yahoo • Jerry Yang

Yahoo Worth More in Pieces, Analyst Says

Company should break up and market individual services

Oct 5, 07 4:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - According to analyst Jeffrey Lindsay, Yahoo Inc. would be worth far more if it broke up its different services into individual businesses or at least went in for a radical overhaul. Shares that rose 2.4% yesterday to $27.80 could sell for as much as $39, according to Lindsay,... More »

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Yahoo • Google • stock market • Jerry Yang

Psychologist Wins Poker WS

Laotian-American defeats Vietnamese-Canadian, wins $8M

Jul 19, 07 4:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - A psychologist from California with less than two years of poker experience won the World Series of Poker, thanks to a combination of canny, aggressive play and timely hands. Jerry Yang entered the last hand with $107 million, a WSOP record, and personally eliminated seven of his final eight rivals... More »

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Jerry Yang • World Series of Poker • poker

Yahoo! CEO
Logs Off

Semel leaves post
as tempers flare over poor performance—
and sky-high pay

Jun 18, 07 4:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Yahoo CEO Terry Semel is out. In a surprise announcement, Yahoo said today that co-founder Jerry Yang will take over from Semel as CEO, who will step down immediately. The embattled Semel, who's been the target of recent shareholder ire, will stick around as non-executive chairman; Susan Decker, former head... More »

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Yahoo • Internet • investors • shareholders • Terry Semel • Jerry Yang • Susan Decker • search engine

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