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Read all about it -- Yahoo's doing ... nothing!

Remember Jerry Yang's 100 Day Plan? The one that promised a new game plan with "no sacred cows?" We're almost to the halfway mark (Day 56, counting weekends, but isn't that what fast-track executives do?) and so far, there's precious little going on. Check out Kevin Delaney's WSJ piece today, which points to barn-burners like adding social networking features to its email and hiring Stone Yamashita partners to help them refocus (disclosure: I have a brilliant relative who works there). Delaney quotes Glen Kacher of Integral Capital partners, who dumped his Yahoo! holdings after meeting with top executives there in August, saying we "decided that the management isn't considering the kind of transformational changes that would be required to improve their position in the market." Ouch.

8:42 AM on Mon Sep 10 2007
By Evelyn Nussenbaum
2,147 views, 8 comments

Latest by search.scientist: @YAH-WHO: Solid streams??? I doubt it. Even if it was true.....show me the money! Monetization is the name of the more »

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Watch out Yahoos, here come the consultants

Get your resumes ready, Yahoos, if you haven't already. That rumored Yahoo reorg? Oh, it's on. We've heard that Yahoo has hired consultants Stone Yamashita Partners to help streamline the organization. And you know what consultants mean, right? As Mike Judge's cult classic Office Space reminds us:
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2:06 PM on Wed Aug 29 2007
By Megan McCarthy
5,077 views, 6 comments

Latest by dpm: As a former consultant, I've heard just about every joke about the profession there is, but the sentiment reflected by more »