Yahoo’s Scott Thompson Steps Down; Yahoo’s Bureaucratic DNA Is Killing The Firm

On Sunday, Yahoo!, what was at first a search giant, but now doesn’t seem to know what it is, other than good at covering sports and bringing more content producers to the NFL Draft, lost its sixth CEO since 2001 and just added its seventh: Ross Levinsohn. Here’s the tally: Tim Koogle, Terry Semel, Jerry … Read more

Carol Bartz Fired, Yahoo! Up For Sale

Wow, what a bit of news on Tuesday, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, who was famous for telling off tech blogger-turning venture capitalist Michael Arrington at last year’s Tech Crunch Disrupt New York interview here: And where this blogger managed to disrupt Mr. Arrington’s great first-of-its-kind event just by making this go viral on YouTube while … Read more