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Yang out as Yahoo! CEO

November 17, 2008 Yahoo!

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There’s probably been too much blame piled on Jerry Yang since he returned as CEO of Yahoo!, but I wonder who would want to take his position now?  I guess the successor will have the job of chopping up the company and selling it off:
Yang To Step Down As Yahoo CEO, Search For [...]

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Yahoo is the big loser, but Microsoft isn’t far behind

May 4, 2008 Microsoft

Unless you were living under a rock, you probably know by now that Microsoft decided to walk away from an acquisition of Yahoo! late yesterday afternoon. A great behind the scenes view of what happened was posted by Kara Swisher here. Earlier this week, a much smaller – almost insignificant – deal apparently [...]

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Marc Andreessen’s analysis of the Microsoft – Yahoo drama

April 29, 2008 Microsoft

We all know Marc, a serial entrepreneur and founder of Netscape, right? Well, if you happen to follow his weblog, you’ll see that he also offers some very good analysis of ‘the events of the day’. Take, for example, his excellent post on the possibility of Microsoft going hostile on Yahoo. Here’s [...]

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My thoughts exactly

February 1, 2008 Microsoft

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Michael Gartenberg just posted exactly what I was thinking on the Microsoft offer to buy Yahoo:
It should have been written

Dear Yahoo Shareholder:
How would you like to get Yahoo’s share price from six months ago back, tomorrow?

Of course the deal will take longer to playout, but it’s already been months since Jerry Yang’s promise [...]

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The lunacy of DRM at 37,000 feet

February 21, 2007 Travel

I do a lot of air travel, and much of it is cross-country. Flights in excess of three hours can really be a drain on energy and productivity if not managed correctly. My usual routine is to break up a lengthy flight into time chunks with some time devoted to work, some for [...]

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