Bartz Wants To Buy Social And Video Startups; Would Sell Yahoo For "Boatloads...
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz reiterated today that Yahoo is still talking with Microsoft “a little bit” about a possible search deal, but said that it would require a “boatload of money” along with the right...
View ArticleD7 Buzz: Bartz And Ballmer Meeting This Morning
When Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz suggested yesterday at the D7 conference that she would consider doing a deal with Microsoft for “boatloads of money,” she might have been doing more than just answering a...
View ArticleCarol Bartz To Michael Arrington: "F*ck Off!"
Well, that just happened. Today at TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz took the stage for a fireside chat with our own Michael Arrington. It took about 15 minutes, but Mike got...
View ArticleCarol Bartz Perfects The Art Of Swearing At TechCrunch Disrupt: The Video
By now, maybe you’ve read that Michael Arrington interviewed Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz this morning at TechCrunch Disrupt. Now you can hear it. And believe me, you’ll want to. Bartz had some interesting...
View ArticleBartz in a China Shop: Has Yahoo's CEO Wrecked the Valley’s Most Valuable...
The Chinese aren’t exactly prone to emotional outbursts in front of Western reporters. In China, if you insult a business partner in the press, there’s likely a calculating reason behind it. Witness...
View ArticleEntire Tech World Piles On Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz
After an analyst reported that Yahoo, Inc stock was worth “less than nothing” today, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz made an apparently unsuccessful case for her company’s value to Wall Street during a Q&A...
View ArticleThe Case for Bartz NOT Getting Fired from Yahoo
What the hell? Since my blindingly obvious post yesterday that said the post-2000 crash was worse for tech than this recent one was somehow considered controversial, how about an actual controversial...
View ArticleIf Yahoo Goes Private And Bartz Is Fired, Quora Wins
My love affair with Quora continues. I simply can’t think of another site where so much useful information is being organized so rapidly in one place. You’ve got experts fielding anonymous questions....
View ArticleThe Surprising Religion of Jack Ma
Jack Ma– CEO of The Alibaba Group and president of the Carol Bartz fan club— was on Charlie Rose this week, and while he didn’t offer any more insight into the Yahoo situation, he said a lot of...
View ArticleThe Dream Is Collapsing: Another Massive Yahoo Re-Org Coming Next Tuesday
Yahoo is in shambles right now. You’ve likely already heard about the most recent SVP exits, which CEO Carol Bartz has tried to spin. Now we’ve heard another one is leaving as well — Jeff Kinder, the...
View ArticleAnd Now a Folksy Update From Carol Bartz, Massive Outage Relegated to "PS"
Talk about burying the lead. For your Friday reading pleasure, the latest memo from “fearless leader” Carol Bartz, talking up how far the company has come and how the outage just proved how important...
View ArticleBartz: Out of 15,000 Employees Only Three Left. Wait, What?
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz was on Fox Business News today, and she was plenty Bartz-y. When Fox anchor Liz Clamen asked her repeatedly if she was on the way out, she said she was there to stay, adding “Do I...
View ArticleBartz: Yahoo Is Serving 6 Million Different Frontpages, 18 Billion Ads A Day
Today at Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz took the stage for a sit down with host John Battelle. One of the key things she had to say was about Yahoo’s content strategy going...
View ArticleBartz Has The "What Is Yahoo?" Answer Down To 15 Seconds. It's Both Expansive...
Today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Carol Bartz took the stage for a sit down with host John Battelle. While Bartz did have some mildly interesting things to say about content, Battelle...
View ArticleBartz Takes the Hint, Stays away from Alibaba's Board…for Now
Carol Bartz has been the fashionable Silicon Valley punching bag for much of 2010, and that’s no doubt escalating in private conversations in Sunnyvale today as hundreds of Yahoo employees are told...
View ArticleWITN: The Dumbest and Smartest People of 2010, Plus Our Predictions for 2011...
With apologies to Car Talk, you’ve squandered a perfectly good half-of-a-year watching “Why Is This News?” and we decided to reward you with a show that actually contains business analysis, rather...
View ArticleJack Ma Flies Thousands of Miles to Palo Alto, Still Doesn't Want to See...
Burn! According to sources, Alibaba Group’s CEO Jack Ma is in town and he’s not even paying a courtesy call to his estranged partners at Yahoo. Ma was spotted dining with Taobao CEO Jonathan Luk and...
View ArticleTech CEO Approval Ratings: Schmidt Goes Out On A High, Donahoe Climbs, Bartz...
A survey taken over the last year by Glassdoor, a jobs and career community that allows users to anonymously share an inside look at jobs and companies, confirms that Eric Schmidt looks better when...
View ArticleAngry Yahoo Shareholder Confronts Bartz And Asks For Her Head (Audio Clip)
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz got an earful yesterday at the tail end of the company’s annual shareholder meeting. An angry shareholder, who identified himself as Steve Landry—an advisor to institutional...
View ArticleBartz Fired; Morse Named Interim CEO; Yahoo Board Creates Circle Of Elders To...
Carol Bartz is officially out as the President and CEO of Yahoo. In an email this afternoon to Yahoo employees, Bartz, who has been in the top role at Yahoo since January 2009, confirmed that she’d...
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