Terry Semel resigns as CEO of Yahoo!


	Terry Semel resigns as CEO of Yahoo!

egoldstein

6-18-2007 7:01 PM

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egoldstein says:

This is big. Sounds like it was a voluntary move on his part. Will be very interesting to see how Yahoo! moves from here.

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6-18-2007 7:12 PM

The REAL Napster

The guy obviously didn't need a parachute if he had options of 450 million already. I still don't think Yahoo can hold up against Google much longer.

6-19-2007 12:51 AM

mugofcoffee

this IS big egold...still google needs a healthy competition to avoid taking hold of the reins of our big bad world!

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