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Title: Yahoo Adrift After Yang Announces Resignation As CEO
Post by: MuffyBee on November 17, 2008, 11:02:43 PM
Yahoo Adrift After Yang Announces Resignation As CEO

November 17, 2008: 10:16 PM EST
 SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- Embattled Yahoo Inc. (YHOO) Chief Executive Jerry Yang has agreed to give up his position, leaving the struggling Internet giant without a clear leader and increasing the possibility an acquirer might seek to buy it.

Yahoo, which earlier this year was the target of a $47.5 billion unsolicited takeover attempt by Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), said Monday it had hired a search firm to look for a successor to Yang, who co-founded the 13-year-old company while he was a graduate student at Stanford University.
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