Yahoo!, Music Execs Part Ways
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Yahoo! Media Group's longtime music head Dave Goldberg and his chief assistant Robert Roback have left the company's Santa Monica, Calif., offices.  The departures come just two months after Media Group President Lloyd Braun left amid a company reorganization, Variety said.
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Yahoo Inc  nonexecutive Chairman Terry Semel is leaving the board, the Internet company said on Thursday, announcing the end of its formal ties with the ex-CEO credited with reviving the company and then losing touch.
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The search provider has decided to end its music service, opting instead to send its business to Real.
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Get on your feet... Yahoo! is taking some time out from worrying about what it's like to be a Microsoft tentacle to offload its damp squib music subscription service.â¦
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Lloyd Braun, ousted last year as the chairman of ABC Entertainment, will become head of entertainment and media content for Yahoo, the company announced yesterday.
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Yahoo Inc.  is merging the two main parts of its U.S. advertising business after veteran sales executive Wenda Harris Millard resigned, the latest in a string of executive departures.
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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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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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Terry S. Semel, the ex-chief executive  who is credited with reviving Yahoo and then losing touch, is leaving the companyâs board.
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EMI chief executive Eric Nicoli is to step down from his post as part of a shake-up under new owners Terra Firma.
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NEW YORK, September 14 (New Ratings) - Yahoo! Inc (YHOO.NAS) has agreed to acquire Musicmatch Inc, a privately held digital music software company, for about $160 million in cash.
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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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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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The departure of television veteran Lloyd Braun from Yahoo Inc. underscores a shift, or at least a major hiccup, by Internet companies away from creating costly original content.
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Semel leaves after six years.  SAN FRANCISCO  -- Yahoo Inc. Chairman Terry Semel ended his six-year tenure as CEO Monday and will hand over the reins to co- founder Jerry Yang in the Internet icon's latest attempt to regain investor confidence.   Semel, 64, will remain chairman.
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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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On the eve of Microsoft's $44 billion bid for Yahoo, former Yahoo CEO Terry Semel announced his resignation from the Yahoo board of directors. Semel presided over a multiyear decline in Yahoo's market share, while collecting nearly half a billion dollars in compensation.