Tag: Yahoo Inc
PE firms circling AOL turn attention to Yahoo (Reuters)
October 12th, 2011, No Comments
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc. The unrest has proved a headache for AOL, others are deeply questioned the Internet company tries to reverse his fate. AOL's interest in private equity firms have intensified after the company's stock has fallen 30 percent in earnings results last month sad. Allen & Co. and Bank of America [...]
PE firms circling AOL turn attention to Yahoo (Reuters)
September 19th, 2011, No Comments
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc. The unrest has proved a headache for AOL, others are deeply questioned the Internet company tries to reverse his fate. AOL's interest in private equity firms have intensified after the company's stock has fallen 30 percent in earnings results last month sad. Allen & Co. and Bank of America [...]
PE firm Silver Lake looking to buy Yahoo: reports (Reuters)
September 18th, 2011, No Comments
Yahoo! offices are represented in Santa Monica (Reuters) – Private equity firm Silver Lake is considering a bid for Internet company Yahoo Inc., according to media reports Thursday night. As part of an agreement, Silver Lake would sell Yahoo's Asian assets and then try to turn the main activities or find a buyer for the [...]
Yahoo’s board of directors, at a glance (AP)
September 8th, 2011, No Comments
Carol Bartz, CEO of Yahoo Inc. departure suggested the Board during his term of two years, bringing in four new directors to replace the five on the left. After his departure, the board of nine members. ___ Roy Bostock, a board member since 2003 and chairman since 2008. He was CEO of advertising agency D'Arcy [...]
Exclusive: Privacy lawsuit targets comScore (Reuters)
August 25th, 2011, No Comments
SAN FRANCISCO/BOSTON (Reuters) – Online data tracking service comScore Inc siphons confidential information including passwords, credit card numbers and Social Security numbers from unsuspecting users, according to a lawsuit filed on Tuesday. The proposed class action lawsuit, filed on behalf of two plaintiffs who downloaded comScore software, also says comScore scans all files on users' [...]
Hulu starts sales talks (Reuters)
July 2nd, 2011, No Comments
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Online video site Hulu has begun preliminary sales conversations with a dozen potential buyers, including Google Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo Inc., according to a source familiar with the situation. Hulu financial advisor, Morgan Stanley and Guggenheim Partners, set up meetings with potential buyers and the company has been doing the [...]
Skype sued in for patent infringement (Reuters)
June 24th, 2011, No Comments
One page of the Skype Web site is seen in Singapore Wilmington, Delaware (Reuters) – Skype Internet Video Phone Company, Inc. is quoted in U.S. federal court Thursday for violating the patents of a Luxembourg company that has filed similar cases against Skype in Europe. The charge of the District of Delaware held a month [...]
Yahoo battle with China’s Alibaba intensifies (Reuters)
May 14th, 2011, No Comments
Yahoo! shares sink on Alibaba tensions NEW YORK (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc's battle with Alibaba Group intensified on Friday as they issued contradictory statements over the Chinese company's transfer of a major Internet asset to its chief executive. Analysts said the handover of Alipay, an online e-commerce payment system similar to eBay Inc's PayPal, to [...]
Fewer stock awards reduces Yahoo CEO’s pay 75 pct. (AP)
May 1st, 2011, No Comments
SAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo Inc. cut CEO Carol Bartz’s compensation by 75 percent to $11.9 million last year as the Internet company struggled to revive its revenue growth, regulatory documents filed Friday show. The sharp drop in the value of Bartz’s pay package stemmed from the lavish awards she got when Yahoo hired her in [...]
YouTube founders ready for ‘Delicious’ next act (AP)
April 28th, 2011, No Comments
San Francisco – YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen cook until another Internet company. This time his constituents, the content-sharing service Delicious. The creators of the world's most popular site Delicious acquired by Yahoo Inc., which late last year, decided to either close or sell the service. Financial terms of the deal announced Wednesday [...]
