Yahoo's Yang gets $1 in rocky final year as CEO

Yahoo Inc. limited co-founder Jerry Yang's 2008 compensation package to his customary $1 salary during his final year as chief executive, a tumultuous reign that unraveled after he rebuffed Microsoft Corp.'s $47.5 billion bid to buy the Internet company.

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Investigators say right engine of US Airways jet is still attached to airplane

Investigators say right engine of US Airways jet is still attached to airplane.

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Yahoo's fate riding on Yang's successor as CEO

With Jerry Yang quitting as Yahoo Inc.'s chief executive, the Internet company's board will confront pivotal questions as it looks for a new leader.

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Yahoo CEO remains upbeat despite lackluster 2Q

With Microsoft's $47.5 billion takeover bid off the table and his company's stock price down 20 percent during his 13-month reign as Yahoo's CEO, Jerry Yang has a message for his exasperated shareholders: Things aren't as bleak as they look.

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Yahoo's embattled CEO received traditional $1 salary in 2007

Yahoo Inc. co-founder Jerry Yang added the chief executive's job to his work load last year, but his salary remained unchanged at $1 — a token payment he has accepted for years because the Internet icon already has made him a billionaire.

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Tellme's Tale As Microsoft Subsidiary

Mike McCue hasn't talked to Yahoo Inc. co-founder Jerry Yang since Microsoft Corp. ambushed the Internet pioneer with an unsolicited takeover bid a month ago.

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Softbank Profit Surges Fourfold

The president of a Japanese mobile carrier that owns a stake in Yahoo said Thursday he is in talks with Yahoo chief Jerry Yang about how to respond to Microsoft's takeover bid.

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Yahoo Poised to Lay Off Hundreds

After seven months as chief executive, Yahoo Inc. co-founder Jerry Yang has concluded hundreds of employees will have to be fired to help the slumping Internet icon recover from years of misguided management.

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Yahoo 3Q Progress Encourages Investors

Jerry Yang has investors feeling better about Yahoo Inc. again, four months after taking over as chief executive in an attempt to revive the struggling Internet icon that made him a billionaire.

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Yahoo cofounder Jerry Yang now looks even more foolish than he did when he turned down Microsoft's original buyout offer. This isn't a better deal, except for Microsoft, which is saving billions.

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HARTFORD, Conn. – Xiangzhong "Jerry" Yang, a stem cell scientist who successfully cloned the first farm animal in the United States, has died after a long battle with cancer. He was 49.

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Corporate raider Carl Icahn increased his stake in Yahoo! after co-founder Jerry Yang decided to step down as head of the internet firm.

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I Want A Transition Team. Not.

I have been wondering how to get so many people in love with my business they fight over who should help me transition to the next step. Then I want the press to follow my every move and write editorials on who did a great job or who to let go.

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Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today announced that discussions with Microsoft regarding a potential transaction -- whether for an acquisition of all of Yahoo! or a partial acquisition -- have concluded.

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Congratulations — you pulled it off. You got Microsoft to walk away from your beloved Yahoo for good. The final word went out on Thursday. There isn't going to be any megamerger. No smaller deal to sell your search business, or take a minority stake, either.

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Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang has taken quite a bit of stick in the business blogosphere over the mishandling of Microsoft's repeated attempts to take over the declining company.

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Congratulations — you pulled it off. You got Microsoft to walk away from your beloved Yahoo for good. The final word went out on Thursday. There isn't going to be any megamerger. No smaller deal to sell your search business, or take a minority stake, either.

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Yahoo Inc (NasdaqGS:YHOO - News) said on Thursday that talks with Microsoft Corp (NasdaqGS:MSFT - News) on a partnership or other type of deal have concluded without an agreement, sending Yahoo shares down 13 percent.

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The two key topics of the interview were the failed Microsoft merger, and Yahoo's core focus as a company. And while Yang never actually said the words quoted in the title above, his tone and body language screamed "We're Done." He was resigned. Beleaguered, even.

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According to sources close to the company - Microsoft's bankers have been putting out subtle signals to Facebook to see if it would be open to a full buyout of Facebook.

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Yes, Microsoft (MSFT) walked away from the proposed blockbuster merger - but no, the new enemy is not Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Instead, it's Gordon Crawford of Capital Research Global Investors, a holder of 6% of Yahoo's shares.

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In a memo to Yahoo employees, co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang asked his troops to redouble their efforts and to focus on executing what he called the most important transition in the company's history.

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With its three-month pursuit of Yahoo at an end, Microsoft is back where it started: far behind Google, the undisputed online-advertising leader.

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Whats sure to be the wildest hostile takeover ever! Yahoo finally takes up Google's offer to form strategic partnership to fend off hostile takeover by Microsoft. Google's CEO Eric E.

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They wanted more from Jerry Yang. A common theme in the hallways and receptions of the Interactive Advertising Bureau's annual conference in Phoenix, which ended Tuesday, was how little Jerry Yang did to make the case that Yahoo deserves to be independent.

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Yahoo Inc has formally rejected Microsoft Corp.'s $44.6 billion takeover bid as inadequate. The response had been expected after Yahoo's intentions were leaked over the weekend.

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SAN FRANCISCO — One of the first questions that Jerry Yang and his top lieutenants pondered after he became chief executive of Yahoo last summer was whether the company could remain independent. They quickly answered yes.

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Jerry Yang faces pressure as he decides whether to try to rescue the company from Microsoft, or accept its bid to purchase Yahoo.

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Yahoo chief executive Jerry Yang sent a message to employees on Wednesday, assuring them the firm's leaders are exploring ways to avoid a takeover by software giant Microsoft.

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"Yahoo chief executive and co-founder Jerry Yang is understood not to be Microsoft's greatest fan, and would be prepared to line up another 'white knight' rather than concede to Ballmer," the Scotsman wrote in its report.

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Microsoft also said it expects Yahoo's board to agree to the deal quickly, but Yahoo said over the weekend that it expects to take "quite a bit of time" to weigh all of its strategic options including remaining independent.

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...For two years, journalist Shi Tao has been confined in a Chinese prison for the contents of an e-mail. On Nov. 6, Yahoo (YHOO, news, msgs) CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang answered to Congress for his company's role in landing Tao behind bars....

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Two top Yahoo officials on Tuesday defended their company's role in the jailing of a Chinese journalist but ran into withering criticism from United States lawmakers who accused them of complicity with an oppressive Communist regime.

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In congressional hearings, the Yahoo! co-founder and CEO will address questions about the company's role in human rights violations in China. For two years, journalist Shi Tao has been confined in a Chinese prison for the contents of an e-mail. On Nov.

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