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mysteries

Did AOL buy Bebo to tempt Yahoo into a merger?

No one can make sense of AOL's $850 million Bebo buy, not even Time Warner CEO Jeff Bewkes, who is dropping hints that his company overpaid for the social network. AOL CEO Randy Falco and COO Ron Grant, shown here in a deliciously awkward moment with Bebo president Joanna Shields, negotiated the deal in secret, to the disbelief of their underlings. But there's one strategic way in which the Bebo buy makes sense. More »

7:00 AM on Mon Jun 2 2008
By Owen Thomas
1,508 views, 1 comment

great moments in hr

Yahoo's London managers have 30 days to report to Switzerland, or else

Yahoo will move its European headquarters from London to Rolle, Switzerland. HR emailed 70 top managers, many of them pictured here, to tell them they have 30 days to relocate or lose their job, according to the Financial Times. The move is supposed to ease Yahoo's tax bill. PaidContent's Rafat Ali thinks the hassle of the move is meant to drive Yahoo European head Toby Coppel out of the company. (Photo by sh1mmer)

12:20 PM on Fri Mar 14 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
2,042 views, 11 comments

toby coppel

Yahoo not cutting it across the Atlantic either

Say this for Yahoo. Some companies merely fail to meet expectations domestically. Yahoo nailed an international trifecta, sending journalists to jail in Asia, reorganizing 17 times in the U.S. over the past year, and now threatening to close or sell its European divisions. The Financial Times reports that Yahoo has given its European staff until March to turn business around or else face the cutting block. Apparently, 3.2 percent of the European search market doesn't go as far as it used to. More »

10:55 AM on Mon Nov 19 2007
By Nicholas Carlson
878 views, 1 comment

Latest by macbeach: Hey! Don't pick on Yahoo! Check out my nifty 360 page, soon as I , uh, remember where I put it. Seriously , this company should get acquired. Preferably by a like-minded company such as Microsoft, so they can more »

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Toby Coppel builds a Canadian empire

Yahoo has decided to lump the hosers in with the Eurotrash, adding Canada to the Yahoo Europe team now headed by exec Toby Coppel. Why? Ostensibly because "Canada's multicultural diversity parallels Europe; and Canadian sites operate in English and French," Coppel claims in an inadvertently hilarious memo sent to all European and Canadian employees. The real reason, we suspect: Feeling his position threatened after career patron Terry Semel stepped down as Yahoo's CEO, and having been unceremoniously booted off Yahoo's "Management Team" page, Coppel is now begging for scraps of authority. Full memo after the jump. More »

12:57 PM on Thu Aug 23 2007
By Megan McCarthy
1,961 views, 4 comments

Latest by scottp3318: Is it really possible that 50% of everone in Canada is a Yahoo user? That's a pretty awesome adoption number! more »

esther dyson

Yahoo and Facebook execs chat it up

Futurist Esther Dyson catches Yahoo senior veep Toby Coppel chatting with Facebook veep and general counsel Chris Kelly. "What are they cooking up now," she asks. Oh Esther, you mischevious darling, why must you tease us so? More »

3:41 PM on Mon May 22 2006
By Nick Douglas
601 views, 6 comments

toby coppel

Toby Coppel's hot wife

Jeff Weiner isn't the only hottie spicing up Yahoo. Toby Coppel, the surrogate brain of CEO Terry Semel, shows up on Yahoo 360 with his lovely wife. From what a tipster tells me, he really had to lock that down: More »

4:28 PM on Wed Feb 8 2006
By ndouglas
3,553 views, 5 comments