Jerry Yang

One of the more interesting investment stories in the Internet space is the turnaround taking place at Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO). The company, which has seen its revenues fall sharply in recent years, has become a target of activist investors amid its struggles. In 2008, Carl Icahn purchased a large...

The earnings crunch rolls on this week. Among those scheduled to step into the spotlight are Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL), Caterpillar (NYSE: CAT), Chevron (NYSE: CVX), McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) and Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX). Analysts expect them post year-over-year earnings growth. AT&T (NYSE: T), Boeing...

Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) co-founder Jerry Yang is leaving the struggling Internet search company he has been with since 1995. California-based Yahoo! made the announcement today after the close of U.S. markets. In a letter to the Yahoo! Board Chairman Roy Bostock, Yang wrote: “My time at Yahoo!,...

Yahoo!'s (NASDAQ: YHOO) board may have screwed up again. After rumors surfaced last week that the company was thinking about launching a share buyback and dividend to appease investors, as opposed to selling the company, Wall Street started to punish the stock. Benzinga spoke to Yahoo! about the...

Yogi Berra is famous for his skill with the Yankees, as well as some of his "Yogisms" in which he says nonsensical things that have somehow made their way into pop culture. Now you can apply a "Yogism" to the world of finance. Last night, a tweet from Wall Street Journal reporter Anupreeta Das...

There was an article on Reuters over the weekend that former Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) CEO and co-founder Jerry Yang was looking to buy the company, and take it private. This begs the question: what does the former CEO see in the U.S. operations that no one else does? Yang wants to take the company...

If you Google “Wean a Baby from its Bottle,” you learn one important fact. The bottle must go. You can do it fast or you can do it slow, but in the end the baby has to stop the suckling. That is the nature of progress. Someone needed to tell that to Jerry Yang a long time ago. As a co-...

Usually it takes a while for a company to screw up a good thing. It only took Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) a few hours. Comments from a meeting at the Silicon Valley-based company are hitting shares, as Yahoo co-founder, director and former CEO Jerry Yang told the 13,5000 employees the company was “not...

News came out last night that Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) had fired CEO Carol Bartz, and the Wall Street Journal reported that the company could be up for sale, to the highest bidder. You know what? It doesn't matter. The board, and the company, are still, well a bunch of Yahoo's. Bartz was fired...

Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) released its Q4 earnings results yesterday after the closing bell. The company reported adjusted net income of $340.5 million or $0.26 per share compared to $200.2 million or $0.14 per share in the year ago period. This came in moderately ahead of analysts' consensus EPS...