Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Bartz Continues Torpedoing Yahoo Search
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has been talking a lot over the past two weeks about Yahoo and how it competes against Google and Microsoft.
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has been talking a lot over the past two weeks about Yahoo and how it competes against Google and Microsoft.
A week and a half ago, Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton made some news for saying that nothing good had come from the internet, period.
Steve Jobs is probably one of the best and most visionary CEOs in the world, and a national treasure.
In August 2008 we reported on 18 chief executives who use the microblogging application Twitter to clue customers in on new services, help them with questions about their products, and generally get a little bit personal with customers, business associates, and the public.
There was a time when the geeks who keep a company’s tech systems running could get by without knowing the finer details of corporate strategy. Well, those days are over. This downturn could mean the end of the sequestered CIO.
What do CEOs say to each other in private? Mean Street intercepted an (imaginary) email sent this morning by Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain to Sanjay Jha, newly appointed co-CEO of Motorola.
Who should be Bill Gates’s technical successor at Microsoft? It’s not CEO Steve Ballmer, who at last month’s D6 Conference admitted, “I am not an engineer.” I’ll say. Steve is a marketing guy who has put other marketing guys in charge of Microsoft. Should it be Bill’s handpicked successors, Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie or Craig Mundie, chief research and strategy officer?
I’d already filed today’s column and was in fact at home catching up on the morning papers I’d missed in the morning when I came across an excellent piece by the New York Times’ Lisa Belkin on the shortage of women executives in high-tech and related fields.
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