A roughly even mix of cash and stock will give Yahoo full control of online advertising exchange Right Media, following their pickup of a 20 percent stake in Right Media in October 2006.
An article appearing in Yahoo Finance today outlines several missteps that the company has taken, all of which have led to the precarious position it finds itself in when compared to the enormous success and gargantuan search share that Google boasts.
Eric Jackson submitted a rather lengthy piece to Yahoo Finance today, and had no qualms about calling out Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, urging that he be replaced immediately due to several failures that many feel have damaged Yahoo in a significant way.
At an "all-hands" meeting at Yahoo, CEO Terry Semel decried the shots being taken at his leadership at the company as coming from critics who are "full of sh*t."
Yahoo CEO Terry Semel will trade all but one dollar of his annual salary in exchange for receiving assorted shares of Yahoo and stock options.
The new video service from Yahoo now matches competitors YouTube and Google Video in permitting users to upload videos to the service for sharing with others; two videos that made it to the system may be a bit embarrassing to Yahoo.
If Microsoft can fulfill the promise of Bill Gates' address to the CEO Summit in Redmond, Yahoo's CEO Terry Semel may be dining on a large slice of humble pie.