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Rip Empson
September 6th, 2011

Bartz Fired; Morse Named Interim CEO; Yahoo Board Creates Circle Of Elders To Decide Company Fate

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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 been fired by Yahoo’s Chairman of the Board, Roy Bostock, by phone call. At least it wasn’t via text message.

Kara Swisher of AllThingsD initially broke the news of Bartz’s departure. Yahoo has… → Read More

Erick Schonfeld
June 24th, 2011

Angry 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 investors with “millions of Yahoo shares”—stood up at the end of what was up until then a surprisingly feel-good affair, given the total underperformance of the stock for the past three years, and… → Read More

Rip Empson
March 31st, 2011

Tech CEO Approval Ratings: Schmidt Goes Out On A High, Donahoe Climbs, Bartz Falls

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 he’s on his way out. As the Google big whig prepares to step down from a decade of service as chief exec, his employee approval rating is at an all time high.

On the flip side of the popularity coin… → Read More

Sarah Lacy
February 14th, 2011

Jack Ma Flies Thousands of Miles to Palo Alto, Still Doesn't Want to See Carol Bartz

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 other Alibaba executives at Fuki Sushi in Palo Alto last night, and a spokesperson for the company confirmed they were in town for meetings. Another source close to the company, who requested… → Read More

Sarah Lacy
December 24th, 2010

WITN: The Dumbest and Smartest People of 2010, Plus Our Predictions for 2011 (TCTV)

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 than a rant about hotels or the hijinks of Michael Arrington.

In this week’s episode Paul and Sarah give their picks for the dumbest and smartest people of 2010, a slam-dunk prediction for 2011 and a… → Read More

Sarah Lacy
December 14th, 2010

Bartz 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 they no longer have a job– just in time for Christmas!

But give her credit for one savvy move: Not naming herself to Alibaba’s board as she signaled she would earlier in the year. Or, give the board… → Read More

Mg Siegler
November 16th, 2010

Bartz Has The "What Is Yahoo?" Answer Down To 15 Seconds. It's Both Expansive And Vague

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 didn’t beat around the bush. “Can you tell us, what is Yahoo?,” he asked her.
“I can. I mean maybe it has taken me 2 years, but I got it,” Bartz replied. “The question has interested me because I think… → Read More

Mg Siegler
November 16th, 2010

Bartz: 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 forward. It has to be about personalization.

“We’re content, that’s what we are. It went off track when people thought it was a ‘search’ company,” Bartz said. She said that search was a hard problem… → Read More

Sarah Lacy
October 20th, 2010

Bartz: 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 look like a wimp?”

No. You do not. Even if you think Bartz is running the company into the ground, you have to give her credit for not holing up and hiding the way her predecessor Jerry Yang did… → Read More

Sarah Lacy
October 15th, 2010

And 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 Yahoo is.

Read it for yourself:
“There sure are a lot of folks writing about us. There are some pretty incredible stories out there.  I’m not letting it distract me, and you shouldn’t either. → Read More

Mg Siegler
October 1st, 2010

The 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 SVP of Media Products and Solutions. And you know what that means — time for a massive re-org at the top of Yahoo. Yes, again.

Based on what we’re hearing, this re-org will take place next Tuesday. → Read More

Sarah Lacy
September 24th, 2010

The 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 interesting things.

Ma is a force. He’s going at half-normal-speed in this video. I saw him speak at the World Economic Forum last week in Chinese and the translators couldn’t keep up with him. They kept… → Read More

Mg Siegler
September 24th, 2010

If 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. You’ve got high-profile people answering questions about themselves or their companies. And you’ve got juicy speculation.

At TechCrunch, part of what we do is gather information and hunt down… → Read More

Sarah Lacy
September 22nd, 2010

The 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 statement to start this morning: Why Yahoo shouldn’t rush to fire Carol Bartz.

Yesterday, we wrote about the Twitter dog pile on Bartz, but I doubt the Yahoo board or management are feeling… → Read More

Alexia Tsotsis
September 21st, 2010

Entire 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 at the Goldman Sachs’ Communacopia Conference in New York.

Paid Content’s Joseph Tartakoff outlined some of the highlights, including Bartz on hiring, “I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone… → Read More

Sarah Lacy
September 12th, 2010

Bartz in a China Shop: Has Yahoo's CEO Wrecked the Valley’s Most Valuable Chinese Relationship?

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 the latest volley by Alibaba.com’s CEO David Wei towards Yahoo, which owns 40% of the parent company for his Chinese ecommerce powerhouse. “Why do we need a financial investor with no business… → Read More

Mg Siegler
May 24th, 2010

Carol 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 things to say about Facebook, Google, Apple, and even TechCrunch — hell, just about everyone but Yahoo (she mainly dodged those questions). But let’s be honest, you just want to hear the swearing. → Read More

Mg Siegler
May 24th, 2010

Carol 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 her to tell him to “fuck off.”

That’s not all she had to say. When Mike pressed her about Yahoo outsourcing the social graph to Facebook. Bartz admitted that if she could own it (as Facebook does)… → Read More

Erick Schonfeld
May 28th, 2009

D7 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 hypothetical question. It could have been an opening salvo. If the late-night buzz I heard at the conference is correct, Bartz is meeting this morning with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, who is also… → Read More

Erick Schonfeld
May 27th, 2009

Bartz Wants To Buy Social And Video Startups; Would Sell Yahoo For "Boatloads Of Money"

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 data-sharing arrangement (because the search data is key to Yahoo revenues, ad relevance, and user experience). Pressed onstage at the AllThingsD conference whether she would reconsider selling the… → Read More

Erick Schonfeld
April 21st, 2009

Carol Bartz Still Looking For Wow, Drops F-Word During First Quarter Earnings Call.

After spending a lot of time speaking with Yahoo employees, partners, and customers, new CEO Carol Bartz has come to realize the importance of giving consumers a “Wow experience,” she told investors in the first quarter conference call. But they have yet to experience that from owning the stock. Yahoo reported a 13 percent decline in revenues for the first quarter of 2009 to $1.6 billion, while… → Read More