With Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer potentially on the ropes over the Web portal’s poor financial showing in recent months, an analyst on Monday released a roster of 10 potential replacements — and the list sports prominent names including former Yahoo executives Ross Levinsohn and Dan Rosensweig. Facebook (FB) COO Sheryl Sandberg, Alphabet (GOOGL)-owned YouTube’s CEO Susan Wojcicki and former Hulu CEO Jason Kilar were also named as possible
Yahoo (YHOO) is “slowly bleeding to death” and will see more revenue declines, says a report Friday from Edison Investment Research, the day after a major Yahoo investor called for the troubled Web portal to sell its ailing core Internet search business. The investor threatens to shake up the company’s board if Yahoo refuses. Activist investor Starboard Value had originally urged Yahoo to spin off its stake in China e-commerce giant Alibaba Group
Yahoo (YHOO) is now under pressure from a major investor, which initially urged the Web portal to spin off its stake in China e-commerce giant Alibaba Group (BABA), to instead call off that deal and sell Yahoo’s ailing core Internet search business. “The proposed spinoff of Aabaco Holdings is not Yahoo’s best alternative,” activist investor Starboard Value said in a letter to Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and Yahoo Chairman Maynard Webb on Thursday. The