May 20, 2012
- Under the deal, the Alibaba Group will buy back half of Yahoo’s stake, and Yahoo will sell an additional 10 percent when Alibaba goes public.
May 18, 2012
- A faked résumé led to a victory for an activist shareholder, and an enduring mystery about Scott Thompson’s departure from Yahoo.
May 14, 2012
- Among the highest priorities is closing a deal to sell some of Yahoo's stake in the Alibaba Group of China back to that company, in a deal that could reap billions of dollars.
May 13, 2012
- Yahoo’s embattled chief executive, Scott Thompson, will leave his post after a controversy over his embellished academic credentials. Yahoo also reached an agreement with Third Point’s Daniel S. Loeb to end the hedge fund manager’s proxy fight.
May 12, 2012
- Facebook’s founder will soon face the unfamiliar landscape of running a public company, monitored by a merciless stock market.
May 10, 2012
- Yahoo's embattled chief executive, Scott Thompson, told the company's senior management on Thursday that he never submitted a résumé or falsified his academic credentials, a person briefed on the matter said.
- A Microsoft-Facebook alliance plans an overhaul of Bing in an effort to loosen Google’s grip on the search engine market.
May 9, 2012
- Yahoo's latest efforts to contain the controversy surrounding the embellished credentials of its chief executive do not seem to impress Daniel S. Loeb.
May 8, 2012
- Patti S. Hart, the board member who led the search for Yahoo’s chief executive, Scott Thompson, will not seek re-election, and the company says it will investigate how the erroneous credentials were overlooked.
- Patti S. Hart, the Yahoo director who headed the board search committee that picked Scott Thompson as the company’s chief executive, will not stand for re-election.