From Silicon Alley Insider, Aug. 1, 2008: The mystery of Jon Miller’s disappearing Yahoo board appointment has been gotten a little less mysterious. He isn’t taking the job because Time Warner (TWX), his former employer, won’t let him. What we’re not sure
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Yahoo Board Chairman Roy Bostock has come out swinging at today’s shareholder meeting.His tone is respectful, but he’s pulling no punches in his plainspoken, emphatic comments:Responding to shareholder who wants (supposedly overpaid) directors to post tim
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From All Things Digital, Aug. 1, 2008: Talking to Yahoo shareholders as if they were particularly thick and surly teenagers, Yahoo Chairman Roy Bostock articulated his umpteenth defense of the board’s handling of its dealmaking with Microsoft. …
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The race is on.
It’s just been a few months since the near collapse and rescue of Bear Stearns, and a book promising an insider’s view of those fateful weeks in March is already being flogged.
It certainly won’t be the last. Days after the brokerage’s implosion, Bertelsmann AG’s Doubleday imprint announced a book project of its own, […]
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Yahoo’s long-awaited, much-delayed shareholder meeting is underway now, as I sit outside the Imperial Ballroom at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose. For updates, check out my Twittering here.
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It’s the calm before the storm. I’m sitting outside the Imperial Ballroom at the Fairmont Hotel in San Jose where reporters and shareholders await the start of Yahoo’s annual meeting at 10 a.m. PT.Ahead of the meeting, the big buzz is about an LA Times st
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From newspapers to television to the Internet, advertising is falling off a cliff. As an example, Viacom CEO Philippe Dauman recently revised growth downward in June to 1% from 3%-4%. In my sitdown with SAI colleague Michael Learmonth, we discussed prospe
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Tech titan Bill Gates appears to be making the transition from head of the biggest software company in the world to a man comfortable taking out the trash. His investment company, BGI, which owns 2.3 percent of Waste Management, is telling the company its unsolicited $6.2 billion bid for Republic Services is ill-advised and that […]
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