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News co-founder and chief executive Jerry Yang, who wanted $37 per share. Financier Carl Icahn launched a proxy battle on Thursday to force Yahoo! to reopen buyout talks with Microsoft, saying the Yahoo! board had acted "irrationally" in refusing its...
[16 May 2008]
Round-Up Yet, after all the negotiations came to an end, Yang admitted that despite all the hoo-ha about Yahoo! Yang blames Microsoft. CEO Jerry Yang, the sticking point came over the valuation of the internet giant.
[09 May 2008]
News Yang said: "We were negotiating a way to find common ground and then on Saturday they chose to walk away. chief Jerry Yang signalled a more open stance towards Microsoft yesterday, saying he had been seeking common ground when the software maker...
[06 May 2008]
News Chief executive Jerry Yang told investors on a quarterly conference call: "We are totally committed to maximising the value of this asset. posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit yesterday but failed to deliver the outstanding results its...
[23 Apr 2008]
News chief executive Jerry Yang, whose company helped identify a Chinese dissident who was later jailed, said yesterday that legal "grey areas" overseas made doing business internationally difficult. Yang, whose family emigrated from Taiwan when he was...
[04 Apr 2008]
Photo Here, Jerry Yang, the poker professional (not the Yahoo! Microsoft's Surface tabletop computer got a one-night gig on the Las Vegas Strip at Harrah's casino last week at the National Heads-Up Poker Championship drawing party.
[07 Mar 2008]
Round-Up Atkins: "I thought Jerry Yang said that the Yahoo! Twenty minutes and just one system crash later and it was on its way to Jerry Yang and the rest of the Yahoo! I've already spoken with Yang and his guys and offered another olive branch.
[08 Feb 2008]
News s board of directors and CEO Jerry Yang… Microsoft announced its much-rumoured bid for Yahoo! at the end of the last week, sparking a flurry of speculation as to what such a partnership would mean for the future of the web.
[06 Feb 2008]
News s "ongoing struggles and uncertain future" will persuade CEO Jerry Yang to accept Microsoft's offer this time. would help both companies fight Google in the online advertising and services market but it also faces some major challenges and obstacles.
[01 Feb 2008]
News s board of directors and CEO Jerry Yang: Microsoft today made a $44.6bn offer for web giant Yahoo! valuing the company 62 per cent higher than its latest stock value. According to Microsoft, the bid is intended to better position the two companies...
[01 Feb 2008]
News Co-founder and CEO Jerry Yang said in a statement: "I am focused on doing everything we need to do to strengthen our business, capture long-term growth opportunities and create increased value for our shareholders.
[18 Jul 2007]
News co-founder Jerry Yang, but Schmidt refused to be drawn: "It would be very presumptive of me to give advice to Jerry - he is a very smart guy. Google CEO Eric Schmidt has acknowledged that providing applications and other services to business...
[20 Jun 2007]
Comment put Jerry Yang back in charge. has had a hard time adjusting to a Google-dominated internet - but bringing back Jerry Yang is a baffling response, says Charles Cooper. CEO Terry Semel has stepped down - and co-founder Jerry Yang will take over.
[19 Jun 2007]
News chief executive Terry Semel stepped down on Monday and handed the reins of the struggling search company to co-founder Jerry Yang after six years on the job. The Technology group, which has been searching for a unit head since the departure of...
[19 Jun 2007]
whitepaper XML is the W3C standard document format for writing and exchanging information on the Web. RDF is the W3C standard model for describing the semantics and reasoning about information on the Web. Unfortunately, RDF and XML - although very close to...
[06 Dec 2006]
whitepaper XML is the W3C standard document format for writing and exchanging information on the Web. RDF is the W3C standard model for describing the semantics and reasoning about information on the Web. Unfortunately, RDF and XML - although very close to...
[06 Dec 2006]
Comment I'm to meet her down at Xiang Yang Market (known as the fake market) but I'm finding it hard to summon the energy in my current state. In May 2006, silicon.com senior reporter Dan Ilett travelled to China, seeking to get behind some of today's most...
[24 Jun 2006]
News The deal, which does not include an admission of any wrongdoing, was reached with Optin Global, Vision Media, Qing Kuang "Rick" Yang and Peonie Pui Ting Chen, the FTC said in a statement released last week.
[10 Apr 2006]
News Yang Yuanqing, Lenovo's chairman, said in a prepared statement: "With our integration of IBM's PC Division on track and our organisational integration complete, we are accelerating our planning for our next phase of growth.
[21 Dec 2005]
News s David Filo and Jerry Yang, also made it into the top 100. Tech industry billionaires loomed large in Forbes' latest list of the wealthiest people in the US, with Bill Gates and his $51bn fortune again topping the list.
[27 Sep 2005]
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