The departure follows the exit of other leading directors at the company including founder Jerry Yang and chairman Roy Bostock. Yahoo's woes continue after it confirmed it will lose the head of its labs unit, Prabhakar Raghavan, to Google.
Roy Bostock, chairman of Yahoo's board, hailed Thompson's "deep understanding of online businesses combined with his team building and operational capabilities. During a conference call this morning, Thompson and Bostock played down the...
Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock told Bartz, who became Yahoo’s CEO in January 2009, that she was being removed last Tuesday. Carol Bartz, who was fired by Yahoo over the phone last week, resigned from Yahoo’s board of directors Friday.
Yahoo Chairman of the Board Roy Bostock fired CEO Carol Bartz over the phone today. Both were apparently on planes heading in different directions when the information was given to Bartz, All Things Digital reported.
We wish him well in his future endeavors," said Roy Bostock, chairman of Yahoo! Burkle will leave after nearly a decade of service. Ron Burkle will not seek re-election to Yahoo! s Board of Directors at the annual shareholders' meeting this year.
Meanwhile, Chairman of the Board Roy Bostock stated "“The Board thanks Sue for her service as President, the important contributions she has made to Yahoo! Despite the suggestion by ValleyWag, that incoming Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz's first job would...
Board Chairman Roy Bostock will lead the search for a new CEO. Today's Top Story: AaronShear SEO Dreams are Made of This BIG BIZ Many major companies continue to make mistakes with their Web sites that hurt their search engine rankings.
Board Chairman Roy Bostock will lead the search for a new CEO. Yahoo! has announced that Jerry Yang will step down as CEO once his replacement has been found. Yang will remain on board as Chief Yahoo!
Turns out, just over half of the shareholders felt the need to vote Chairman Roy Bostock and CEO Jerry Yang. Yahoo has confirmed that a 'tabulation error' occurred in the shareholder vote count conducted by Broadridge Financial Solutions, the...
With so much disappointment in the Yahoo board among shareholders, how did Chairman Roy Bostock and CEO Jerry Yang manage to get more votes this year than at last year's shareholders meeting? The proxy committees recommended that votes for Bostock...
Roy Bostock said, no problem. Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock reiterated the standard Yahoo strategy and said the company was hitting its targets. On Yahoo's partnership with Google, Bostock said, "After Microsoft withdrew the offer, and only after they...
s current Board of Directors will stand for re-election at the 2008 annual meeting: Roy Bostock, Ronald Burkle, Eric Hippeau, Vyomesh Joshi, Arthur Kern, Mary Agnes Wilderotter, Gary Wilson and Jerry Yang.
Roy Bostock Chairman Roy Bostock. Here's the details. Yahoo's board will expand to 11 members, but only 8 of the current board will stay on. They are: Ronald Burkle Eric Hippeau Vyomesh Joshi Arthur Kern
Roy Bostock Jerry Yang Of course, that's only "if Microsoft will negotiate a transaction that delivers certainty of value and certainty of closing. This is the simplest, most straightforward way to maximize value for you.
Furthermore, they say that Roy Bostock called Steve Ballmer and requested a new offer. If Microsoft and Yahoo spent half as much time developing search technology as they did battling out the proposed acquisition in the court of public opinion...
Roy Bostock Today on Bastille Day, Yahoo's fighting its own revolution. There was no mention of liberte, egalite or fraternite, but Yang could have easily addressed his shareholders: Chers Les Miserables,"
Roy Bostock, Chairman of Yahoo! Recently, Microsoft and Carl Icahn got quite cozy, and the budding relationship spawned a new Yahoo offer. Despite Yahoo's insistence that they remain open to an offer from Microsoft, they have, once again, rejected...
June 8, our Chairman, Roy Bostock, other independent board members, and members of Yahoo! Icahn's slate and his ill-defined agenda," the letter from Yahoo CEO Roy Bostock states. Roy Bostock Jerry Yang
In a letter addressed to Jerry Yang, Susan Decker and Roy Bostock, Nelson explained the reasoning behind his difficult decision to sell a company he built: Even though Carl Icahn has said the Yahoo-Google deal might have merit, former search...
and Microsoft on June 8th in which Chairman Roy Bostock and other independent Board members from Yahoo! MicroHoo is dead. RIP Microsoft-Yahoo. Today Yahoo made the official announcement that they've concluded discussions with Microsoft.
