The recount is in at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and the decline in support for key figures was not trivial at all. The percentage of shares withheld for Roy Bostock basically…

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Mistakes were in fact made in counting Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) shareholder vote. Tabulator Broadridge Financial Solutions has confirmed that “truncation error” caused an under-reporting of votes, reports WSJ. But the…

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A very bizarre twist in the ongoing Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) saga, sure to to set off the tinfoil hat crowd… Major shareholder Capital Research Global is concerned about possible voting…

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Michael Silver, a former veteran exec with the The Tribune Company for two decades, is taking on the new post of executive director of the Yahoo Newspaper Consortium. The post…

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So the real drama was happening outside Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) annual shareholder meeting...well, happened yesterday, to be exact. Jon Miller won’t going on the Yahoo board for reasons being disputed…

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So there was little drama at today’s shareholder meeting and the results were never in doubt. Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) has just released its vote tallies confirming that all of the…

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The Q&A portion of any annual meeting is usually a platform for small shareholders to get a megaphone on their pet issue. Large shareholders get to talk through the media…

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Update: Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) spokesman Keith Cocozza says the company never granted Jon Miller permission to join the Yahoo board. “When Jon Miller signed his contract it specifically said…

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Briefly met Jerry Yang prior to the meeting, and he seemed very relaxed. Only about 100 people in the room...thin. Roy Bostock, the most active board member from Yahoo during…

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Still early at the sprawling Fairmont in San Jose, the venue for Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) annual meeting later today. The purple t-shirts are in abundance, so is the security. And…

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Yes, everyone’s pronouncing Yahoo’s (NSDQ: YHOO) annual meeting DOA. Nevermind that Carl Icahn won’t attend, or that the new board members won’t voted in until after the meeting; that doesn’t…

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In the daily drumbeat of bad news for newspapers, the growth of online advertising would seem to offer some solace to the beleaguered industry. But as a WSJ piece tells…

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-- *Yahoo* Newspaper Consortium: While Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) does not release the financials related to its Newspaper Consortium, but some of the ad and content alliance’s members do. Last week,…

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T. Boone Pickens, the oilman-turned-wind power advocate, has sold his 10 million Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) shares for a loss. Pickens said back in May that he picked up the shares…

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-- *Scripps* Networks: Sarah Cottay is joining as VP of development, reporting to Deanna Brown, president of Scripps (NYSE: SSP) Networks Digital. In this new position, Cottay will focus on…

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With Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) chatting openly about the possibility of liquidating its Asian assets, the value of Yahoo Japan becomes more significant.  The firm, partially owned by both Yahoo and…

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We knew Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Music was shutting down but not that it was planning to take down its DRM servers at the same time. Ars Technica reports that Yahoo…

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Ed: This is a guest post by our former investor and board member Alan Patricof. It first appeared on HuffingtonPost. Well, we finally have a resolution to Carl Icahn and…

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Weakness in display advertising caused online ad company ValueClick (NSDQ: VCLK) to warn investors last week that earnings in the second half of year would not be as high as…

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A major departure at Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) this evening: Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft’s Platforms and Services Division, is leaving the company to head up gearmaker Juniper Networks. The departure…

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Here at EconCeleb, Virginia Heffernan, a columnist for The New York Times Magazine, kicked off our first panel of the day with executives from Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) Entertainment, E! Entertainment…

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This may be too late to have any real impact, but it does come as something of a surprise… proxy firm Glass Lewis recommends shareholders vote against the reelection of…

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If you wondered where Amy Iorio is in the latest Yahoo Media mix, well, not at Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO). We’ve confirmed that Iorio quietly left as GM of Yahoo Lifestyles…

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While you were enjoying a nice summer weekend, Carl Icahn spent last weekend hammering out a settlement with the Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) board. Now that he has an agreement in…

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An important detail to note from today’s earnings call: Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) is not factoring in any gains from its Google (NSDQ: GOOG) deal into its outlook. Right now, the…

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