Carol Bartz

The Carol Bartz firing debacle didn’t fail to capture the world's attention last week—due in part to Bartz’s own trademark style of dealing with frustration: swearing loudly.  Immediately after the firing, she took to the press to air her side of the story, calling the Yahoo board a bunch of “doofuses” and saying, “these people fucked me over.”  But one thing in particular about the whole fiasco caught my eye: virtually all of the criticism leveled at Bartz had to do with her mouth.  More...Read Full Story

Carol Bartz is officially out as the President and CEO of Yahoo. In an email this afternoon to Yahoo employees , Bartz, who has been in the top role at Yahoo since January 2009, confirmed that she’d been fired by Yahoo’s Chairman of the Board, Roy Bostock, by phone call. At least it wasn’t via text message. Kara Swisher of AllThingsD initially broke the news of Bartz’s departure. Yahoo has since confirmed that Tim Morse, who joined Yahoo from Altera as the company’s new CFO in June, will...Read Full Story

It looks like the unemployment line is getting a little bit longer. Late Tuesday, word broke that Yahoo’s board of directors has effectively removed Carol Bartz from her position as CEO of the company. In her place as interim CEO will be Timothy Morse, a Yahoo veteran of only three months and the company’s current CFO. With a palpable tone of frustration and a twinge of resentment, Bartz announced her departure via email to her employees. “I am very sad to tell you that I’ve just been fired...Read Full Story

Yahoo Inc Chairman Roy Bostock fired CEO Carol Bartz within the phone on Tuesday, ending a tumultuous two-year tenure marked by stagnating growth along with a rift with Chinese partner Alibaba. "I am very sad to inform you that I've just been fired over the phone by Yahoo's Chairman from the Board. It has been my pleasure to work with everyone and I wish you only the best going forward, " Bartz said inside a two-sentence email to employees obtained by Reuters. Chief Financial Officer Tim...Read Full Story

Yahoo has begun outlining a new strategy to become the “world’s premiere digital media company.” And to explain it, the company is invoking the periodic table of elements. During a presentation at Flickr headquarters in San Francisco, Yahoo VP Steve Douty said that Yahoo has refocused its mission in the wake of major leadership changes — in other words, the firing of former CEO Carol Bartz . To that end, it is doubling down on its new mission: “To build deeply personal digital experiences...Read Full Story

Yahoo Inc Chairman Roy Bostock fired CEO Carol Bart z over the phone on Tuesday. Chief Financial Officer Tim Morse will step in as interim CEO, and the company will search for a permanent leader to spearhead a battle in online advertising and content with rivals Google and Facebook . Shares in Yahoo jumped 6 per cent in after-hours trading to $13.7 after closing at $12.90 on the Nasdaq. “ I am very sad to tell you that I’ve just been fired over the phone by Yahoo’s Chairman of the Board...Read Full Story

Yahoo! fired chief executive Carol Bartz on Tuesday, less than three years after she was brought in to help turn around the struggling Internet company. Yahoo! said Bartz was being removed “effective immediately” and that chief financial officer Timothy Morse, 42, would serve as interim chief executive while the board of directors searches for a new CEO. Yahoo! also said it had named an Executive Leadership Council to carry out a “comprehensive strategic review” of the Sunnyvale...Read Full Story

SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo Inc. fired Carol Bartz as CEO Tuesday after more than 2½ years of financial lethargy that had convinced investors that she couldn’t steer the Internet company to a long-promised turnaround.To fill the void, Yahoo’s board named Tim Morse, its chief financial officer, as interim CEO. Bartz lured Morse away from computer chip maker Altera Corp. two years ago to help her cuts costs. Yahoo, based in Sunnyvale, California, said it is looking for a permanent replacement...Read Full Story

Yahoo has announced that CEO Carol Bartz has been ‘removed by the Board from her role as chief executive officer’. Describing the ousting as a ‘leadership reorganisation’, Yahoo has appointed Timothy Morse as an interim CEO while the hunt is on for someone with the cojones to take the role on permanently. “On behalf of the entire Board, I want to thank Carol for her service to Yahoo! during a critical time of transition in the Company’s history, and against a very challenging macro...Read Full Story

September 7, 2011 | Jakk Yahoo! Inc. has announced that their CEO Carol Bartz has been removed by the Board from her role as chief executive officer within Yahoo!. Stepping in to her boots in an interim role is Timothy Morse, and the role has been described as temporary measure until Yahoo find the right person to take on the job full time. So why has Carol Bartz been fired? Well Yahoo is calling it a  ’leadership reorganisation’, however in true how-not-to-fire an employee fashion...Read Full Story