Carol Bartz

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...

Even the most brilliant minds in finance can make terrible mistakes. And when they do, the results are usually as bad as a lame summer blockbuster that ultimately flopped. 3. They Don't Know When to Quit Is there anyone left that believes that MF Global (NYSE: MF) will make a comeback? It's not...

Should Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) acquire the dying beast that is Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO)? That answer is simple. But to fully understand the reasons why the Windows maker should stay away from the enterprise formerly controlled by Carol Bartz, click through our photo gallery.

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...

Since it was first announced in early September that Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz was fired, and Third Point's Dan Loeb had acquired a large stake in the company, there have been rumors swirling about who was going to eventually acquire the company. With last night's news that Chinese...

Carol Bartz was just the beginning. Now that Yahoo!'s (NASDAQ: YHOO) problematic CEO is out of the picture, hedge fund manager and Third Point LLC founder Daniel Loeb is going after Yahoo! Chairman, Roy Bostock – again. In a letter sent to Yahoo! co-founder and former CEO Jerry Yang, Loeb...

These are the words I imagine I'd say if I became the CEO – that is, a Cocky Executive Officer – of a major corporation. As the CEO of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO), for example, I wouldn't have to think before I spoke. I could say whatever's on my mind, violate my non-disparagement clause, and still walk...

Carol Bartz is leaving the Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) CEO post the same way she came in - with fire and vigor and plenty of "F bombs." Speaking of the company's board of directors, she told Fortune that "These people f**ked me over." According to Bartz's telling of the events surrounding her firing as...

News hit the wires a little bit ago that activist investor Dan Loeb has a 5.15% stake in Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO), just a day after the company botched the firing of former CEO Carol Bartz. You can find a copy of the letter in its entirety on the SEC's website. Third Point LLC is now Yahoo's third...

Botched outsourcing, Ponzi scheme accusations, and bad corporate hires are just some of the reasons for Yahoo!'s downfall. On a day when both of Carol Bartz and Tim Morse are being referred to as “clueless,” it's interesting (if not a little fun) to look back on the rise and fall of Yahoo! (NASDAQ...

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...

Is Carol Bartz the only one who should have been fired? Far from it, says Trip Chowdhry, Managing Director of Equity Research at Global Equities Research. “Both Carol and Tim [Morse] should have been fired together as they both have damaged YHOO's business and repairing it will be extremely...

Shares of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) were up this morning on news of a deal between itself, Alibaba Group, and SoftBank over AliPay. In the press release it says: The agreement establishes the following: "The agreement preserves the existing relationship between Taobao and Alipay. Alipay will...

Shareholders are meeting on Thursday to discuss the progress of Yahoo. Unfortunately for CEO Carol Bartz, Yahoo!'s reported earnings are not at targeted levels. Shareholders may be becoming impatient and frustrated with Bartz's leadership and her plans for improving the company, according to...

It wasn't long ago that Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz noted on an earnings conference call that she would have some news for investors regarding the Asian assets that the company had long held on its balance sheet. Management gave the impression that a monetization of these assets, which...