Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang resigns from its board - Polidicks

[IMG]http://tt.rivalgaming.com/acttr?v=1&a=new_trck%3A%09false%092%0913%09undefined%09true%09CSS1Compat%09RG&t=1326846759821[/IMG] [URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16602041[/URL] [QUOTE]Jerry Yang, the co-founder of Yahoo!, has resigned from its board Mr Yang founded the online company in 1995 with David Filo and was its [URL="http://www.facepunch.com/#"]chief executive[/URL] from June 2007 until January 2009 His resignation comes two weeks after the company hired former PayPal executive Scott Thomson to be its new chief executive. Mr Yang annoyed some [URL="http://www.facepunch.com/#"]shareholders[/URL] by turning down a $47.5bn (£31bn) takeover offer from [URL="http://www.facepunch.com/#"]Microsoft[/URL] in 2008. The company's current market value is about $20bn. Mr Yang has also resigned from the boards of Yahoo Japan and Alibaba Group and said [URL="http://pressroom.yahoo.net/pr/ycorp/221948.aspx"]in a statement[/URL]: "The time has come for me to pursue other interests outside of Yahoo!". He also expressed support for the company's current management. "I'm enthusiastic about the appointment of Scott Thompson as Chief Executive Officer and his ability, along with the entire Yahoo! leadership team, to guide Yahoo! into an exciting and successful future," he said. Yahoo! shares rose 3.4% in after-hours trading. Some analysts had seen Mr Yang as an impediment to the sale or restructuring of the business. "This is clearly a positive. It provides a more objective and unemotional approach to strategic alternatives," said Brett Harriss at Gabello & Co. "It's also good for the new CEO. He has one less entrenched legacy board member to resist his vision." In addition to leaving the board, Mr Yang is also giving up his title of "Chief Yahoo". "While I and the entire board respect his decision, we will miss his remarkable perspective, vision and wise counsel," said Yahoo! chairman Roy Bostock. [/QUOTE]

Does anyone still use Yahoo anymore? I'm honestly surprised they're still around.

I'm pretty sure nobody goes directly to yahoo to search something.

Yahoo used to be good until they cut their free web page service.

[QUOTE=DamagePoint;34266837]Does anyone still use Yahoo anymore? I'm honestly surprised they're still around.[/QUOTE] Ranked 4 globally on alexa, so apparently a ton of people do.

[QUOTE=DamagePoint;34266837]Does anyone still use Yahoo anymore? I'm honestly surprised they're still around.[/QUOTE] A lot of people still use there email service for some reason

[QUOTE=Saxon;34269375]A lot of people still use there email service for some reason[/QUOTE] Likely because its an old email and they don't want a new one because their old one receives important messages. And that.. Its email, How does a company fuck up email.

[QUOTE=zarthalan;34269690]Likely because its an old email and they don't want a new one because their old one receives important messages. And that.. Its email, How does a company fuck up email.[/QUOTE] This, I've been [email]Abrown516@yahoo.com[/email] ever since I was 7 playing Yahoo! Pool.

[QUOTE=Priori;34269214]Ranked 4 globally on alexa, so apparently a ton of people do.[/QUOTE] It's also a lot of people's homepage because of programs that ask you if you want to set it as your homepage when you install them.

[QUOTE=DamagePoint;34266837]Does anyone still use Yahoo anymore? I'm honestly surprised they're still around.[/QUOTE] I have no choice but to use them. ATT, for some derp-fucking-tastic reason, decided Yahoo would be a cheaper option than running their own email servers. Sigh.

[QUOTE=zarthalan;34269690]Likely because its an old email and they don't want a new one because their old one receives important messages. And that.. Its email, How does a company fuck up email.[/QUOTE] which is why you set your account to forward all received messages to your new account. It takes seconds.

[QUOTE=DamagePoint;34266837]Does anyone still use Yahoo anymore? I'm honestly surprised they're still around.[/QUOTE] My dad works there so I hope so...

I use Yahoo mail, mainly because I'm not arsed to switch my email on all my accounts of everything, but also because I don't really see that much of a problem with Yahoo mail.

[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3239994/aenwn.PNG[/img] oh god what

[QUOTE=Ghostwork;34275805][img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3239994/aenwn.PNG[/img] oh god what[/QUOTE] yeah uh no thanks i'll stick to gmail + outlook

[QUOTE=DamagePoint;34266837]Does anyone still use Yahoo anymore? I'm honestly surprised they're still around.[/QUOTE] I've actually used yahoo forever now, I remember using it when dial up was out (and the only option). I still use it. Its more for email, news and some other things, i use google for most searches though.

Yahoo! Mail is fucking terrible compared to GMail. There is no real reason for Yahoo to exist anymore, most people probably just made old yahoo emails and are too lazy to switch