Yahoo’s future suddenly looks brighter, as Terry Semel steps aside, and Co-Founder Jerry Yang takes back the reins. Semel, a former Hollywood executive who joined Yahoo in 2001, will remain chairman in a non-executive role. Yahoo also expanded the duties of Susan Decker, who was earlier named the head of the company’s advertising business, and
You can read about it at Techcrunch. Has Susan Decker read 4C: Yahoo’s Turnaround Formula? Here’s an org chart by Cogmap.
Here’s a superb post from Rich Skrenta on Google, the third wave of computing, and how Yahoo should go back to its original model of licensing Google’s technology for Search, Adwords and AdSense. Whether or not you agree with that last conclusion, you must read the post. And then, ponder the question on the future