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Intel CEO Paul Otellini commented on competition with Nvidia, the economy, and the possible fate of its flash memory factories on Wednesday at a tech conference in San Francisco.

Otellini began by speaking to the fact that the global economic downturn has depleted inventories of chips. "I don't think there's much inventory out there. It's hard to imagine that there's a significant drop below this." He made his remarks at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Conference 2009, which was streamed live.

And moving quickly to the next generation of chip technology is critical … Read more

Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer reiterated his interest in landing a search deal with Yahoo during a midyear strategic update with analysts Tuesday, according to a CNBC report.

But while Ballmer is apparently willing to re-engage in a dialogue with Yahoo regarding a potential search deal, the software giant has been "rebuffed and ignored" by Yahoo's new CEO, Carol Bartz, on any overtures it has made to initiate discussions, said a CNBC reporter, citing anonymous sources.

Yahoo was up 5 percent to $12.57 a share in pre-market trading.

Yahoo, meanwhile, apparently is operating without a top … Read more

Carol Bartz, Yahoo's newly minted CEO, is reportedly preparing for a management shake-up that could result in an expanded role for its chief technology officer, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal.

The changes, which could be announced as soon as this week, are aimed at putting Yahoo's decision-making process on a faster track, as well as consolidating some of the company's operations to create a more uniform appearance across its sites, according to the report.

Under Yahoo's prior management with Sue Decker as president, the organizational structure and decision-making process were not only … Read more

I don't have any scientific proof of this, but it strikes me that open-source CEOs are different. Not just because some sport ponytails (Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz), or some speak with a light Southern drawl (Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst), or even that some swear in Italian (Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco).

No, what really makes them different, at least as compared to their enterprise software counterparts, is their cutting-edge adoption of technology.

In this they're no different (and probably a bit behind) the Web 2.0 crowd, but compared to an HP, IBM, or SAP CEO, the CEOs … Read more

The deck chairs at Yahoo are a-changing once again, with the company's chief communications officer, Jill Nash, stepping down in the next few weeks, a company spokesman confirmed.

Nash, who joined Yahoo in January 2007 as its PR head, will assist in the transition once her replacement is found, said Brad Williams, a company spokesman, noting that she is not leaving to take another job.

Nash's resignation announcement comes less than three weeks after Yahoo named its new CEO, Carol Bartz.

Her pending departure follows that of Yahoo President Sue Decker, who announced in mid-January plans to resign … Read more

It was a rather blase day for Yahoo's closing stock price Friday. It didn't shoot to the moon on the latest Microsoft takeover rumor, nor crater to the Earth's core on fears that the software giant is never coming back in some shape or form.

But, nonetheless, Yahoo's newly minted CEO, Carol Bartz, was likely taking notice. Her potential fortune is tied to Friday's closing stock price.

Bartz, under her compensation package, is eligible to reap the rewards of 5 million stock options, which carry an exercise price based on Friday's close of $11.… Read more

Carol Bartz, Yahoo's brand-new CEO, revealed her first public assessment of embattled Yahoo on Tuesday, arguing the company is stronger as a whole than as the sum of its parts.

"This is a fantastic Internet property, and it doesn't deserve everybody trying to pick it and pull it apart," Bartz said in a conference call after Yahoo reported mixed fourth-quarter results. Looking at statistics such as how many people use Yahoo, how long they stay on the site, and how they value its properties, she said, "This is not a company that needs to be … Read more

Eight days into the job and she hasn't yet fixed Yahoo! What is this world coming to? OK, I'm obviously mugging for the cameras, but Carol Bartz's first earnings conference call as the new boss was an unqualified hit.

Like a lot of people watching Yahoo through the years, I've long wondered whether a straight shooter would ever emerge to run this company. With all due respect to Bartz's predecessors, but Messrs. Koogle, Semel, and Yang usually weighed down their responses to tough questions with enough multisyllabic business cliches to sink the Titanic.

That wasn'… Read more

Updated at 3:13 p.m. PST with details from conference call.

Yahoo handily cleared Wall Street's pessimistic earnings expectations for a grim fourth quarter and matched anticipated revenue, but charges swung the Internet pioneer to a net loss for the quarter.

The company reported a net loss of $303 million for the quarter ended December 31, compared with net income of $206 million from the year-earlier quarter. The loss was a goodwill impairment charge of $488 million and restructuring charges of $108 million. Revenue, excluding commissions to partners dubbed traffic acquisition costs, dropped 2 percent, to $1.38 … Read more