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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]
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]
New Yahoo! chief exec appointed from Warner
News president and chief operating officer Jeff Mallett and chief financial officer Susan Decker continue in their current roles and will report to Semel. on Tuesday appointed former Warner Brothers executive Terry Semel as its new chairman and chief...
[April 17, 2001, 14:39]
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]
Yahoo chief floats ad-free future
News Yahoo, whose fortunes depend on selling online advertising, could some day offer versions without ads, its chief executive Terry Semel said. Speaking with Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang at an event sponsored by the Commonwealth Club, Semel said its...
[February 26, 2004, 8:00]
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 rejected Microsoft search offer
News Yahoo chief executive Terry Semel has revealed he recently rebuffed Microsoft's attempt to bag a stake in the company. According to a report in the Financial Times, Semel said: "Microsoft taking over Yahoo - that conversation has never come up.
[May 15, 2006, 11:05]
Yahoo!'s chief reaches out to Hollywood
News Semel is considering hiring the two executives for positions at Yahoo! executives have taken on new roles at the Web portal, as newly appointed chief executive Terry Semel settles into his two-month-old job with a little help from his friends in...
[June 27, 2001, 12:27]
Yahoo cosies up to MSN
News When it comes to online advertising, Yahoo and Microsoft are both sellers and thus on the same team, Yahoo chief executive Terry Semel said. Semel spoke on Friday to a group of advertisers to emphasise the opportunities of online advertising and...
[March 29, 2004, 11:30]
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]
Is Yang right to run Yahoo?
News Semel brought discipline, now they need vision. Decker may be the "strategic powerhouse" and "financial wizard" that Semel said she is during a conference call discussing the changes, but Yang brings the technological know-how that neither Semel...
[June 19, 2007, 12:54]
Yahoo-eBay deal: a Google buster?
News The deal offers great opportunities for both companies to share great assets with each other," Semel said. The two companies unveiled a partnership on Thursday morning that could bring more advertising revenue to Yahoo, whose market share losses to...
[May 26, 2006, 8:55]
Yahoo! makes offer for HotJobs
News chief executive Terry Semel said in a statement. In an offer letter to HotJobs, Semel said the company's bid would pose less regulatory risk than its proposed merger with TMP. At an analyst conference in November, Semel slashed the company's 44...
[December 13, 2001, 12:35]
More job cuts ahead for Yahoo?
News We have determined key, go-forward opportunities to create new revenue streams," chief executive Terry Semel said during a call with Wall Street analysts. in May, Semel has made it a priority to develop paid services on the site and turn the...
[October 11, 2001, 9:47]
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]
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]
Yahoo! to clip divisions, lay off 400
News We are looking at acquisitions to be a principal and to gain a competitive edge," Semel said, holding out Yahoo! No more," chief executive Terry Semel said at the company's annual analysts' day meeting.
[November 16, 2001, 9:15]
Yahoo! beats the street, is optimistic
News Semel said during a conference call that excluding payments from Overture, marketing services revenue increased by a "double-digit percentage" over last year. chief executive Terry Semel said that during the coming year, the company would focus...
[April 10, 2003, 9:39]
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]
Yahoo! president to step down
News adapted and executed to end the year on a high note, with fourth-quarter revenues and income exceeding the business outlook we previously provided," chief executive Terry Semel said in a statement. Since Semel started in May, the biggest question...
[January 17, 2002, 16:20]
