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Yahoo sells shopping site Kelkoo
News He will assume the position of 'chief Yahoo', the role he held before taking over from former chief executive Terry Semel in 2007. Yahoo has sold European shopping and price-comparison site Kelkoo to a UK-based private-equity firm.
[November 25, 2008, 7:26]
Yahoo CEO Yang to step down
News Yang will resume his position as chief Yahoo, the company said, the role he had before taking over in 2007 after former chief executive Terry Semel departed. Yahoo, under fierce financial pressure, has begun a search to replace company co-founder...
[November 18, 2008, 7:29]
What about Yahoo's people?
Talkback has experienced an exodus of senior staff - most high profile was the departure of their CEO, Terry Semel, but other departures in 2007 included their chief sales officer, CTO, SVP of their recruitment arm and plenty of middle manager roles.
[February 1, 2008, 21:50]
Solving Yahoo's identity crisis
News Such a move will punctuate more than a year of internal wrangling at Yahoo, beginning with the departure of chief operating officer Dan Rosensweig and entertainment head Lloyd Braun in December 2006, followed in June 2007 by chief executive Terry...
[January 28, 2008, 14:36]
Google's results are no cause for concern
News Yahoo, which had a management shakeup last month that led to co-founder Jerry Yang replacing Terry Semel as chief executive, also warned that revenue for the rest of the year would be lower than expected.
[July 20, 2007, 11:12]
Google earnings fall short of forecasts
News Yahoo underwent a management shake-up last month and promoted co-founder Jerry Yang to replace Terry Semel as chief executive. Google's second-quarter revenue rose 58 percent from a year ago on continued strong search-advertising sales, while...
[July 20, 2007, 7:52]
Still no cure for Yahoo's complaint
News She was named president in the management change last month that swept co-founder Yang to the chief executive spot and former chief executive Terry Semel off to the sidelines as a non-executive chairman of the board.
[July 18, 2007, 8:50]
Yahoo profit down on slowed display-ad growth
News Yang took the reins from Terry Semel last month. Semel remains as non-executive chairman of the board. The management shake-up came nearly a week after a somewhat contentious shareholder meeting in which stockholders criticised Semel's pay in light...
[July 18, 2007, 7:40]
Web leaders: Search is just the beginning
News Yang replaces Terry Semel, who stepped down last month after being criticised for failing to do enough in the face of slowing revenue growth and a sliding stock price. The company's website says: "Google's mission is to organise the world's...
[July 13, 2007, 8:42]
Yahoo launches customisable ad tool
News Chief executive Terry Semel stepped down in mid-June and passed the baton to co-founder Jerry Yang, shortly after getting blasted by shareholders at the annual stockholder meeting. Yahoo just upped the ante in the display advertising space.
[July 2, 2007, 9:51]
Will Yahoo's board also get a makeover?
News After months of criticism, Terry Semel is gone from the corner office at Yahoo, and Jerry Yang is finally back to running the company he co-founded. But in the aftermath of the executive shake-up at the internet's number-two search site, a big...
[June 25, 2007, 15:42]
Schmidt: Enterprises key to Google's future
News In a wide-ranging question and answer session with over 120 journalists from across Europe, Schmidt was quizzed on a range of subjects, including his reaction to the departure of the chief executive of Yahoo, Terry Semel.
[June 20, 2007, 11:14]
Is Yang right to run Yahoo?
News On Monday, Yang took over as the chief executive at Yahoo, replacing seasoned executive Terry Semel. Decker may be the "strategic powerhouse" and "financial wizard" that Semel said she is during a conference call discussing the changes, but Yang...
[June 19, 2007, 12:54]
Yahoo CEO Semel steps down
News Yahoo chief executive Terry Semel stepped down on Monday and handed the reins of the struggling search company to co-founder Jerry Yang after six years on the job. Semel "has not only been a strong leader, he's been a consummate partner…Terry has...
[June 19, 2007, 8:11]
Shareholders lay into Yahoo boss
News Yahoo shareholders criticised a defensive and slightly combative chief executive Terry Semel for the company's lagging performance after the annual stockholder meeting Tuesday. Shareholders also re-elected all the board members, snubbing a request...
[June 13, 2007, 10:53]
Google speeds ahead of rival Yahoo
News Google, once again, blew away Wall Street expectations, while financial analysts openly wondered how long Yahoo chief executive Terry Semel would stay in the internet company's corner office. Contrast those divergent fortunes with two years ago...
[April 24, 2007, 12:06]
Yahoo sees drop in profits
News Yahoo offered Panama to key Japanese customers this week and will roll it out in other international markets in coming months, chief executive Terry Semel said during a conference call with analysts. Semel announced that the company was expanding a...
[April 18, 2007, 12:03]
Top execs depart in Yahoo reshuffle
News The executives heading up the units will report directly to Yahoo chief executive Terry Semel. The internet is continuing to grow and evolve at a rapid pace, and we're reshaping Yahoo to be a leader in this transformation, just as we did...
[December 6, 2006, 7:47]
Yahoo chief to be paid $1 salary
News Yahoo chief executive Terry Semel, the highest compensated executive in the San Francisco Bay Area last year at more than $56.8m (£30m), will receive an annual salary of $1 through 2008, according to documents made public on Friday by the US...
[June 5, 2006, 10:00]
Yahoo-eBay deal: a Google buster?
News The two companies unveiled a partnership on Thursday morning that could bring more advertising revenue to Yahoo, whose market share losses to Google brought angry words from shareholders at the portal giant's annual stockholder meeting later in...
[May 26, 2006, 8:55]
