SF News Yahoo CEO Fudged His Resume, Calls Made Up Degree An 'Error' Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson may not be quite the academic he professed to be. The excitedly-punctuated Sunnyvale company admitted today that, just four months into Thompson's tenure, their CEO's resume listed a degree
SF News Yahoo Layoffs To Start This Week Thousands of loyal Yahoo employees will receive layoff notices starting this week. Research and marketing department will be the first to get hit, reports All Things D. "The ultimate goal, said multiple sources,
SF News Yahoo Announces New CEO: PayPal's Scott Thompson After a four-month search, teetering tech company Yahoo announced their new CEO today, Scott Thompson, the president of eBay's PayPal division. Thompson follows feisty and f-word friendly Carol Bartz, who was released from
SF News Fired Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz Could Lose $10M Over Fresh Mouth Glorious fired Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz, who was released from her duties earlier this week via a phone call, slammed her former employers in the press. Bad idea. In an interview with CNN,
SF News Yahoo "F--ked Me Over," Says Carol Bartz In her first interview since being fired as CEO of Yahoo on Tuesday, colorful Carol Bartz didn't hold back when discussing her former employers. "These people fucked me over," she said to CNN.
SF News Yahoo Canned Their CEO Too Fast on the heels of the news that front-page editor/vice president Liz Lufkin got a pink slip yesterday from Yahoo!, blogger All Things D (who clearly has an inside source) reports that
SF News Woman Who Brought Us SFGate Ousted From Yahoo Liz Lufkin, who's most recently been the vice president responsible for front-page editorial programming at Yahoo and who once upon a time co-founded SFGate, has been ousted from Yahoo in a reorg. Editor-in-chief
SF News Your Top 10 Google Searches Are... In March scores of people used Google to find "yahoo," which was the seventh most searched word of the month. Gee, that's rich. Anyway, the top ten words were gmail (10), yahoo.com
SF News Yahoo! Forcing Vacation on Employees Christmas Week During the week between Christmas and New Year's, Yahoo! is furloughing most of their 13,000 employees or forcing them to use remaining vacation days, in order to trim costs on their end-of-year
SF News Yahoo! (Allegedly) Profiting From Compromising Your Privacy Despite efforts to get it removed from the internet, Yahoo!'s 2006 "Law Enforcement Investigators Guide" details the various fees that government and police officers would need to pay in order to obtain
SF News Microsoft-Yahoo Deal Made After months of tiresome foreplay -- or is that redundant? -- Microsoft and Yahoo have finally done the deed. Sunnyvale-based Yahoo and Microsoft will join forces to try gaining an edge on the
SF News Yahoo-Microsoft Deal Imminent; VCs Spending Again Could the wheels of techie commerce once again be spinning? Two news items today suggest that yes, the powers that be are opening their wallets. First off, that long talked about Microsoft-Yahoo deal
SF News Brand Makeover at Yahoo In an effort to make itself relevant again, Yahoo will undergo an extreme makeover. According to All Things Digital, "in what many sources at the company said is a major push, Yahoo (YHOO)
SF News Apple, Google, Yahoo, Genentech in Antitrust Probe Re: Hiring Practices Some of the largest employers in the Bay Area are being investigated by the Department of Justice to determine if they have been in cahoots not to recruit or hire away each others'
SF News Yahoo to Slash More Jobs Ailing Sunnyvale-based Yahoo Inc. suffered yet another setback this week after "lackluster' first-quarter results were announced. As a result, anywhere from 600 to 700 jobs will be cut. This makes the company's third
SF News Shooting Suspect Was Yahoo Engineer Further proof that engineers and Peninsula tech folk are scary Asperger Syndrome types from which you should stay far, far away, Santa Clara police claim that the shooter who murdered his family in
SF News Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz Prefers Google Maps Speaking at a Morgan Stanley Technology conference, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz fessed up to the following bit of commonsense. Bartz was asked about the maps business and how Yahoo has fallen behind. She
SF News Carol Bartz named New Yahoo CEO Former Autodesk CEO Carol Bartz, 56, has accepted Yahoo's offer to becoming their brand spanking new CEO, at least according to the Wall Street Journal. This comes after Yahoo has seen a sharp
SF News Layoffs Begin at Yahoo, Valleywag has the Script Yahoo commences with its 1,500 layoffs starting today. Hundreds of employees were notified, with layoffs continuing until year's end. In an effort to "trim $400 million to shore up the company's finances,
SF News Yahoo: The Search For the Next Yahoo CEO While Silicon Valley sobers up from last night's news about Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang stepping down, the question on techies minds today is who's next? Valleywag and blogger Kara Swisher speculates that Peter
SF News Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang Stepping Down Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang announced today that he was, finally, stepping down from his role at the troubled internet mammoth. Promoted to the position over a year ago, Yahoo has seen drastic cuts
SF News Yahoo Announces Layoffs It was officially announced today that at least 1,500 jobs are set to get cut at Yahoo, which effectively hacks off 10 percent of the Sunnyvale Web portal's staff. This most recent
SF News Yahoo to announces major job cuts this week In yet another sign of the Great Depression II recession economic downturn, Yahoo is expected to announce a big, new series of layoffs -- around 15% of the Sunnyvale-based company's workforce. Last week
SF News Yahoo Layoffs Get International Alas, today is "major pink slip handout" day over at Yahoo, where "police and security teams have been scheduled to provide order in case anyone goes postal." But things are getting ugly overseas
SF News Rupert Murdoch to Buy Yahoo!? So, you didn't like Microsoft, did you? Well, how about News Corp.? In an attempt to rejuvenate Yahoo and fend off Microsoft's advances, Rupert Murdoch's media conglomerate is reportedly in talks to purchase
