Yahoo China chief quits after six weeks
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(InfoWorld) - The top executive at Yahoo China resigned from his job for "personal reasons" after six weeks on the job, Yahoo's local partner Alibaba.com said in a statement Monday. Xie Wen joined Yahoo China as president on Oct. 17. Alibaba did not offer details surrounding his decision to leave the company. Following his resignation, Xie will continue to serve as a consultant to Alibaba, the Chinese Internet company said. Xie is replaced by Zeng Ming, a senior vice president of Alibaba, who has been involved with strategic planning for Yahoo China since joining the company in August. Alibaba acquired Yahoo's struggling Chinese operations in 2005 as part of a deal that sawÂ Yahoo invest more than $1 billionÂ in the Chinese company, which operates e-commerce sites for business and consumers. Alibaba is in the process ofÂ turning Yahoo China into a community portal siteÂ and search engine -- a transformation that company executives say will take several years to complete.
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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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Terry Semel ended his six-year run as Yahoo Inc.'s chief executive officer on Monday, and the company's co-founder Jerry Yang will take over from him, the company said.
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Steve Coll, The Washington Post&#39;s managing editor for six years, said today he is stepping down at the end of the year to pursue book projects.
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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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Terry Semel is stepping aside as Yahoo CEO, with co-founder Jerry Yang set to take over the helm.
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Bleeding market share, managerial talent and investor confidence, Internet giant Yahoo on Monday replaced chief executive Terry Semel with company co-founder Jerry Yang.
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Yahoo Inc. thinks it's back on the right track now that co-founder Jerry Yang has replaced Terry Semel as chief executive, but analysts and investors already are wondering whether the shake-up is just a prelude to more radical measures, including a possible sale or breakup of the troubled Internet icon.
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Yahoo Inc confirmed on Friday  that Chief Marketing Officer Cammie Dunaway, a member of the  Internet media company's executive team, was leaving the  company, effective November 2.
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Following investor pressure for a  management shake-up, Yahoo Inc.  Chairman and Chief  Executive Terry Semel is stepping aside and will be replaced as  CEO by co-founder Jerry Yang, Yahoo said on Monday, sending  shares up 3.5 percent in extended trade.
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Vince Broady, a senior vice president in Yahoo's media group, is the latest executive to leave the company as his duties are scaled back.
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(InfoWorld) - Alibaba.com's Yahoo China unit has filed an unfair competition lawsuit against the company founded by its former general manager. Yahoo China says Beijing Sanjiwuxian Internet Technology Co.,, which operates the Qihoo.com Web portal, distributed software that reports the Yahoo Toolbar as malware and urges users to uninstall it. Yahoo Toolbar is available free for download, and includes protection against viruses and malware, as well as easy access to Yahoo services, such as the Yahoo search engine and Yahoo Mail. It also adds tabbed browsing capabilities Internet Explorer. The software distributed by Sanjiwuxian is called 360safe and violates Chinese laws against unfair competition, Alibaba said in a statement. The lawsuit was filed in Beijing's No.2 Intermediate Peopleâs Court, it said. Alibaba is seeking injunctive relief to immediately and permanently stop the distribution of 360safe, as well as damages and a public apology. The lawsuit steps up the legal battle between Yahoo China and Qihoo, which was founded by former Yahoo China General Manager Zhou Hongyi. In August, Zhou sued Yahoo China in the same Beijing court, saying the company had insulted and libeled him. Zhou left Yahoo China in 2005, after Yahoo transferred its operations to Alibaba. He sued after Alibaba published an article on its Web site that accused him of "pressuring and intimidating" Yahoo China staff to leave the company, Qihoo.com said in an August statement. "Yahoo China's remarks had a defamatory nature, which shocked insiders," it said.
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Yahoo Inc.  on Monday  tapped co-founder Jerry Yang to replace Chief Executive Terry  Semel, bowing to investor pressure as the Internet media  company has failed to keep up with rival Google Inc. .
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Terry Semel  resigned under pressure on Monday as CEO of Yahoo Inc., and the  company handed the reins back to Jerry Yang, the billionaire  co-founder of the search engine that became one of the  Internet&#39;s earliest success stories.
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Yahoo Inc. on Monday tapped co-founder Jerry Yang to replace Chief Executive Terry Semel, bowing to investor pressure as the Internet media company has failed to keep up with rival Google Inc..
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By Elise Ackerman, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun. 24--Jerry Yang first tried to be chief executive of Yahoo, the company he co-founded, 12 years ago. He lasted just a few weeks before hiring more seasoned management.
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(InfoWorld) - One week after Yahoo Inc. named co-founder Jerry Yang as CEO, the company promoted David Karnstedt to head of North American sales, continuing a company restructuring that began in December 2006. Yahoo also announced plans to merge its search and display advertising units. In December, the company reorganized into three divisions: the Audience Group, the Advertiser & Publisher Group, and the Technology Group, the heads of which all report to the CEO. With Karnstedt's appointment as head of North American sales, U.S. Chief Sales Officer Wenda Millard will leave the company immediately, Yahoo said. Keeping up with Yahoo's executive arrivals and departures since the December shakeup requires a scorecard. Upon announcement of the three new corporate divisions in December, the company announced Chief Operations Officer Dan Rosenzweig would move on, departing in March. Also in December, former Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker became head of the Advertiser & Publisher Group, before being named president of Yahoo last week. Decker will continue to oversee that group, and will also have the Audience Group in her portfolio. The Technology Group was headed by Chief Technology Officer Farzad Nazem until he left the company June 8. Yahoo's other co-founder, David Filo, will lead the Technology Group until Nazem's replacement is named. Former CEOÂ Terry Semel stepped down last week to make way for Yang, but will remain with Yahoo as non-executive chairman.