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Say what? Yang's right as Yahoo's CTO, Semel says

When word came Monday that Jerry Yang was replacing the embattled Terry Semel as CEO of Yahoo, we couldn't help flashing back all the way to last week to the company's annual shareholders meeting.

It couldn't have been a happy occasion for Semel, who was on the spot to defend Yahoo's performance, its executive pay packages (that is, his own very generous compensation), the unexpected departure of Chief Technology Officer Farzad Nazem, and on and on.

On that date, Yang was serving as the interim CTO, so one shareholder asked whether the Yahoo co-founder--long known as … Read more

Is Yang right to run Yahoo?

Jerry Yang is finally running Yahoo, the search company he started as a Stanford graduate student 13 years ago with his buddy David Filo. Over the years, Yang has served as the public face of the company while more experienced executives were in charge. On Monday, Terry Semel, recruited from Hollywood to run the company six years ago, passed the baton to Yang.

But does Yang have the management chops to run the company, which is struggling in the face of strong opposition from Google? What do he and Sue Decker--who is stepping up to be president from her former … Read more

Jerry Yang explains his mingling strategy

Yahoo's decision to invest in Chinese Internet property Alibaba.com, rather than try to take on Alibaba and others directly, is paying off, said Yahoo founder Jerry Yang at the 2007 HYSTA (Hua Yuan Science and Technology Association) in San Jose yesterday.

"Our move to partner with Alibaba and become a shareholder has proved to be the right strategy," he said.

Yang also clarified how he met Alibaba CEO Jack Ma. The general story is that Yang met Ma when they got paired together at the HYSTA golf tournament a few years ago.

Not true. Yang met … Read more