Four Reasons For Yahoo's Four-Year Slump (YHOO)
Silicon Alley Insider Dec 23 08
Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock's plan was to name a new CEO before 2009. Hasn't happened yet and there's only a week to go, so we're prepared to be shocked -- shocked! -- that Yahoo might take more time to make its decision than originally anticipated.
But in case you are the leading candidate for the job -- despite, perhaps, only joining Yahoo's board this fall -- you'll want to be prepared if the chairman and his pal on the board Gary Wilson do call you up for an interview between now and the New Year.
Lucky for you (and we do mean you, former Nextel Partners CEO John Chapple), Ironfire capital manager Eric Jackson -- who finally sold his hedge fund's stake in Yahoo (YHOO) last fall but still has plenty of sources at the company -- just wrote an article titled "Reasons Behind Yahoo!'s Four-Year Slump" for TheStreet. Full story...
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