Ex-ABC Exec to Head Yahoo Media Division
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Yahoo Inc. (YHOO.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Tuesday named Lloyd Braun, a former chairman of Walt Disney Co.&#39;s (DIS.N: Quote, Profile, Research) ABC Entertainment Television Group, as
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Yahoo Inc.  on Tuesday announced a reorganization that marks Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker as a likely successor to the current CEO and simplifies the Internet media company's structure.
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Yahoo Inc.  on Tuesday announced a reorganization that marks Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker as a potential successor as CEO and simplifies its structure as it battles faster-growing rival Google.
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Ben Silverman has been named as a co-chairman of both the entertainment division and its television studio.
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Yahoo Inc. said on Sunday the Internet media company was merging the two main parts of its U.S. advertising business under one sales executive, David Karnstedt, and that veteran advertising sales executive Wenda Harris-Millard has left the company.
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Terry Semel stepped down as Yahoo Inc.'s chairman Thursday, severing his ties with the slumping Internet icon 7 1/2 months after he resigned as chief executive under shareholder pressure.
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Yahoo Inc. said on Sunday the  Internet media company was merging the two main parts of its  U.S. advertising business under one sales executive, David  Karnstedt, and that veteran advertising sales executive Wenda  Harris-Millard has left the company.
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(InfoWorld) - Yahoo Inc. has shaken up its top management ranks once again, as the struggling Internet giant continues tweaking its organizational structure to boost advertising sales, its main source of revenue. In the latest shift, Yahoo President Susan Decker announced in a memo to staff that the company's top sales executive is on his way out and that a new global sales organization has been created. Major management shakeups have become frequent at Yahoo in the past 10 months, as the company urgently tries to compete better, not only against archrival Google Inc. but also against nimble startups, and turn around its generally disappointing financial performance. Two months ago, co-founder Jerry Yang took over as CEO and chairman from Terry Semel, while Decker, former chief financial officer and head of Yahoo's advertiser and publisher group, became president, a drastic change driven by widespread investors' dissatisfaction with the company's direction. In particular, Semel took the fall for Yahoo's inability in recent years to profit as heavily as Google has from search engine-based pay-per-click advertising and for missed opportunities in hot markets like social networking and video sharing, where the company lacks strong services. A week after Semel's demotion to non-executive chairman,Â Yahoo combined its search and display advertising sales teams in the U.S. It was an attempt to extend the company's long-standing, core display advertising client relationships to the pay-per-click business, which generates about 40 percent of the industry's online advertising. Just seven months earlier, in December,Â Semel had rolled out a major reorganization, creating three main business units to focus on Yahoo's key customer segments: consumers, advertisers and publishers. At the time, Semel also announced that Dan Rosensweig, then chief operating officer, would leave the company. That reorganization was preceded by a widely publicized internal memo that was leaked to the media in November and came to be known as the Peanut Butter Manifesto. In the scathing memo, Brad Garlinghouse, Yahoo's senior vice president of communications and communities, called for a major reorganization, saying the company lacked "a focused, cohesive vision" that had made it "reactive" and eager to be "everything to everyone." Since theÂ uproar over the Peanut Butter Manifesto and the ensuing shakeups, Yahoo has seen quite a few changes in its upper management ranks. In addition to Semel's demotion and Rosensweig's departure, also gone are Wenda Harris Millard, who was chief sales officer, and Chief Technology Officer Farzad Nazem. In June, The New York Times reported that, in addition to these executives, at least 17 others at vice president level or higher had left Yahoo since the December reorganization. In the memo she penned on Wednesday, obtained by IDG News Service, Decker acknowledged that "there have been many changes at Yahoo over the last few months, and I know that change is not always easy." However, with the latest moves, she feels that the company now has "the right people in the right positions to focus on the right opportunities." Someone who will not be around much longer is Gregory Coleman, executive vice president of global sales, who, Decker announced, will exit the company in February. The new sales division, called Global Partner Solutions, will be led by Hilary Schneider and deal with all of the company's partners, including advertisers, agencies, resellers, publishers, ad networks and developers. "This new group will be charged with creating, delivering and coordinating global best practices for solutions to all of our partners," Decker wrote. "It will also have direct responsibility for our U.S. sales, marketing and business development efforts, including all ad formats, like search, display, video and mobile; all marketing activities; and all customers, including large enterprises and small businesses." "Global Partner Solutions will be responsible for segmenting the business needs of our partners into actionable groups, understanding the needs of these segments and our ability to meet these needs, developing holistic business strategies to delight and surprise these segments, and executing on these strategies," the memo reads. "This approach will help us achieve faster, smarter decision-making and improved execution in support of better serving our customers." Yahoo didn't immediately return calls seeking comment. Â
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Terry Semel is leaving his post as Yahoo's non-executive chairman, six months after resigning as CEO.
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NEW YORK - CNN has a new boss for the second time in 14 months: former CBS News executive Jonathan Klein, who will oversee programming and editorial direction at the second-ranked cable news network.
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Yahoo has promoted David Karnstedt to head of North American sales, continuing a company restructuring that began in December 2006.
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(InfoWorld) - Terry Semel ended his six-year run as Yahoo's CEO on Monday, and the company's co-founder Jerry Yang will take over from him, the company said. Semel has been the focus of intense criticism in the past two years due to Yahoo's inability to capitalize as much as expected on the fast-growing market for search engine advertising. By contrast, Google has enjoyed eye-popping revenue growth and enviable profits almost exclusively from the search advertising market. Last week, at Yahoo's annual shareholder meeting, Semel fielded stinging criticism from shareholders in attendance, leading to tense exchanges at times. Semel resigned from his position as CEO and chairman and will become the role of non-executive chairman and serve as advisor to the management team. Semel became chairman and CEO in May 2001. The board of directors appointed Yang, who cofounded the company 12 years ago, as CEO, and Susan Decker, former executive vice president and head of Advertiser and Publisher Group, as the company's president. In a webcast, Semel said he had told the board that he wanted to step back from his executive role "sooner rather than later" and that he and the board agreed this would be a good time for him to step down as CEO. "I've long been talking to the board about the importance of ensuring a smooth succession to Yahoo's senior leadership," Semel said. Semel expressed full confidence that Yang and Decker are the right people to carry Yahoo "through its multiyear transformation" while acknowledging that the past year has been a difficult one for Yahoo and that no one in Yahoo's management has been satisfied with the company's performance. (More to follow.)
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Yahoo Inc.  on Tuesday announced a reorganization that marks Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker as a potential successor to the CEO and simplifies its structure as it battles faster-growing rival Google.
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Yesterday Yahoo announced that it has closed its acquisition of Right Media, buying 80% of the company for $650 million. Yahoo had already owned the other 20% of Right Media. Right Media&#8217;s CEO, Michael Walrath, will now serve as Senior Vice President of Yahoo under Yahoo President Susan Decker. Yahoo announced their intentions to acquire Right Media [...]
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Newly elevated Yahoo President Susan Decker issued a memo to employees detailing another massive organization for her company, which for the third time in a mere nine months realigns its business operations under reappointed leadership. Gone is the executive said to have spearheaded the takeover of ad market broker Right Media last April, and the fate of one of the company's most outspoken senior VPs appears uncertain.
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Terry Semel is stepping down as Yahoo&#39;s non-executive chairman, six months after handing over his CEO title to Jerry Yang.Semel is leaving the board effective immediately, Yahoo announced Thursday. He will be replaced as non-executive chairman by another board member, Roy Bostock, the company said.Semel was chairman and CEO of Yahoo for six years until he was replaced in a management shuffle last June. Yang, one of Yahoo&#39;s co-founders, was made CEO, and Semel was demoted to non-executive chairman.As CEO, Semel helped to build Yahoo&#39;s audience from 170 million to more than 500 million users. But he was also blamed for missteps that allowed Google to build a commanding lead in online search and advertising, prompting last year&#39;s reorganization.&quot;With the Company moving forward under new leadership, I believe this is an appropriate time for me to step down from the board,&quot; Semel said in the statement.He approached the board several months ago about leaving once a replacement could be found, Yahoo said.Bostock has a long history in the advertising industry, &quot;an area that is more important than ever to Yahoo&#39;s business and our long term success,&quot; the company said.On Tuesday&#160;Yahoo reported that net income for its fourth quarter declined&#160;to $206 million, from $269 million a year earlier. It also announced plans to lay off about 1,000 staff.Semel&#39;s departure from the board appears to mark the end of his tenure at Yahoo. Yang thanked him for &quot;his many contributions to Yahoo over the years&#160;-- and for helping to lay a firm foundation for future success and improved financial performance.&#8221;Bostock has been a board member at Yahoo since May 2003 and was elected unanimously by the board to replace Semel. From 1990 to 2000 he was chairman and CEO of D&#39;Arcy Masius Benton &amp; Bowles, and its successor advertising company The MacManus Group.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 7  /PRNewswire/ -- ABC Radio Networks has announced John Rosso will take on the additional role of heading up its rapidly expanding Digital Media division.  As Sr.