Exclusive: After Ad Changes, Yahoo Media Unit Gets a Management Shakeup
Last week, Yahoo’s advertising unit got the once-over from its new sales head Wayne Powers. And, this week, its new Audience unit head Mickie Rosen is making a series of executives moves. First up,...
View ArticleExclusive: Yahoo Nabs Microsoft Exec Brett Wayn to Help Local Efforts
After it struck its online advertising and search partnership with Yahoo, Microsoft tapped longtime Internet exec Brett Wayn (pictured here) to work with Greg Nelson during the integration. Well, Wayn...
View ArticleExclusive: Yahoo Loses M&A Head to Zynga
Taylor Barada (pictured here), Yahoo’s recently appointed head of M&A, is joining Zynga in an unspecified role. Barada replaced Andrew Siegel, who left Yahoo in December to join Condé Nast. Yahoo...
View ArticleHold the Sports Phone: Ross Levinsohn Not Leaving Yahoo for HBO
While there has been a report on a boxing news site that Yahoo Americas head Ross Levinsohn was leaving the Internet giant to run HBO’s sports unit, it’s not so. Trust BoomTown on this one–I have all...
View ArticleYahoo Looking at 5to1 Purchase for $25 Million
According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo is in advanced talks to buy 5to1, a self-serve premium advertising platform, for $25 million. The Los Angeles start-up is run by Jim Heckman, a...
View ArticleYahoo Americas Ad and Media Head Ross Levinsohn Talks Up, Well, Yahoo! (Video)
Longtime Internet exec Ross Levinsohn only got to Yahoo about seven months ago as head of its Americas region, but he certainly isn’t shy about touting its attributes vigorously. Including talking...
View ArticleYahoo Loses Global Search Business Head Chi-Chao Chang
In the ongoing talent drain at Yahoo, longtime Yahoo search veteran Chi-Chao Chang (pictured right) is the next to swirl away from the Internet giant. Chang was VP and GM of the global search business...
View ArticleWho's to Blame for Yahoo's Q2 Revenue Rout? The Line Forms Around Back…
Yahoo turned in another weak performance in the second quarter, with yet another decline in revenue. This time it was five percent, compared to last quarter’s six percent. In other words, at least...
View ArticleInsider Buying: Top Execs -- But Not Its CEO Carol Bartz -- Purchase Shares...
While they are only small transactions, two of Yahoo’s top execs — Americas head Ross Levinsohn and its Chief Product Officer Blake Irving (pictured here) — seem to have forked over their own dough to...
View ArticleMy Picks for Yahoo's Next CEO -- Maybe Snoop Dogg, Ya Digg?
The firing of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz leaves open one of the bigger and more difficult jobs in tech — one that has taken its toll on many. Nonetheless, rapper Snoop Dogg stepped right up to the Twitter...
View ArticleYang Says "Not for Sale": All Hands on Yahoo's Slippery Deck!
At a prequel for the many VPs of Yahoo to the all-hands meeting for all 13,500 employees of the Silicon Valley Internet giant that is taking place at 11 am, Yahoo co-founder, director and former CEO...
View ArticleUh-Oh: Groupon Loses New COO, Who's Going Back to Google
In a blog it just posted, Groupon said its recently hired COO, Margo Georgiadis, “has decided to return to Google (her former employer) in a new role as President, Americas.” She was only hired in...
View ArticleYahoo's Bartz Also Gets Fired From Fortune's Powerful Women List, While HP's...
Today, Fortune magazine released its annual “50 Most Powerful Women in Business” and, as usual, it had its share of tech execs on the list. And off it, too — first and foremost being ousted Yahoo CEO...
View ArticleYahoo Layoffs Set to Begin Next Week, Followed by Restructuring the Week After
Yahoo is preparing to begin layoffs of what could be thousands of employees starting next week, according to multiple sources, and is then expected to announce a new restructuring of the company the...
View ArticleYahoo's Layoffs Tomorrow Morning of up to 2,000 Will Only Be the First Move...
According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo’s massive round of layoffs — which is likely to impact up to 2,000 employees — is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg that will hit the storied...
View ArticleNew Yahoo Chief of Staff Comes In, While Previous One Goes to Facebook
New Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has selected Marta Nichols, who was the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s VP of investor relations, as his new chief of staff. Interestingly, Joel Jones, the chief of staff...
View ArticleExclusive: Yahoo's Thompson Out; Levinsohn In; Board Settlement With Loeb...
Yahoo’s embattled CEO Scott Thompson (pictured here) is set to step down from his job at the Silicon Valley Internet giant, in what will be dramatic end to a controversy over a fake computer science...
View ArticleYahoo Hires Google Exec Barrett as Chief Of Revenue, as Big Ad Changes Loom
According to sources close to the situation, Yahoo has hired high-profile advertising exec Michael Barrett to be its chief of revenue. Sources said Barrett will be in charge of ad revenue and...
View ArticleTop Yahoo Ad Exec Riley Departs in Wake of Recent Changes (Memo)
In a move that comes as little surprise to anyone paying attention to insider baseball, top Yahoo exec Rich Riley will be departing the company. Riley, who has had a number of jobs at the Silicon...
View ArticleYahoo's Longtime Top Lawyer Mike Callahan Departs (Internal Memo!)
Mike Callahan, Yahoo’s longtime and powerful general counsel, is leaving the company. According to an internal memo, which is embedded below, Callahan does not have another job. But sources said that...
View ArticleExclusive: Ross Levinsohn Departs Yahoo
As I previously reported he likely would, top Yahoo exec Ross Levinsohn — who lost the CEO race to former Google exec Marissa Mayer — is leaving the company, according to several sources. Mayer also...
View ArticleExclusive: Yahoo's Mayer Aiming for Twitter's Stanton for Big Media Role
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been trying to recruit Katie Jacobs Stanton, Twitter’s head of international markets, to take a major job on the media side of the Silicon Valley Internet giant, according...
View ArticleWanted: Yahoo on the Lookout for New Ross Levinsohn, Oops, Americas Head
New Yahoo COO Henrique De Castro has been racking up the frequent flyers miles trying to land someone who can take on a big chunk of his job, as SVP of Americas — in charge of sales, sales...
View ArticleYahoo Q2 Earnings Call: The Marissa and Ken Show, Now in Living Color
Yahoo is just starting the analyst call of its Q2 earnings, which were pretty lackluster. But CEO Marissa Mayer, who is awfully good at this kind of thing, has ginned up the excitement nonetheless,...
View ArticleExclusive: Yahoo Loses Its Media Head, as Mickie Rosen Ankles From Company
According to sources, Yahoo’s media head Mickie Rosen is leaving the Silicon Valley Internet giant. Rosen, who reported to COO Henrique De Castro, is one of the highest-ranking execs to depart the...
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