• yahoo raid

    Yang paves the way for ex-AOL CEO Jon Miller to join Yahoo board

    In an entirely punctuated memo posted to Yahoo's corporate blog and the SEC, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang — or his ghostwriters — declared that yesterday's agreement to give corporate raider Carl Icahn three board seats and avert a proxy fight allows Yahoo "to get back to the business at hand." But while Yahoo will soon enough be able to focus on doing what it does best — losing market share to Google and talent to startups — Yang and the board still have one more task at hand: filling out its expanded board with Icahn-approved nominees. Bet that one of the names will be fired AOL chairman and CEO Jon Miller. Though not included on Icahn's original slate of alternative directors, Yang mentioned Miller by name in his memo as a potential new board member.

    8:00 AM on Tue Jul 22 2008
    By Nicholas Carlson
    1,075 views, 9 comments

    Latest by terran: @buzzzkilll: Why not, when we get to have a deathly unfunny attention whore like you on this board. more »

  • venture capital

    AOL, MySpace bosses' bloody VC merger

    Venture capitalists sell themselves as friends to entrepreneurs, and talk about how they're going into business together. Isn't it useful to know how they treat the people they're actually in business with? The tale of the formation of Velocity Interactive Group is instructive in that regard. Former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller and ex-News Corp. executive Ross Levinsohn, who oversaw MySpace, raised eyebrows when they switched VC teams last December. The full story is even more cutthroat than we imagined. More »

    3:20 PM on Wed Feb 20 2008
    By Nicholas Carlson
    2,092 views, 1 comment

    Latest by sggrf: Neither are VC's, entrepreneurs or highly successful CEO's --- go figure. more »

  • aol

    Class-action power curve

    While AOL's chief speaks at MIT, More »
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