MS-Yahoo Proxy Board: Who the Hell are These Guys?
April 24, 2008 by Jayvee Fernandez
Filed under Computers
Yahoo selling out to Microsoft would be like a mammal chaining itself to a dinosaur — or in this case, the Ballmersaur. Now that the Wall Street Journal has revealed the proxy board it plans to put on top of Yahoo, I’m more convinced than ever that a Microsoft acquisition would kill Yahoo. Read through the list and tell me what’s wrong with it:
The nominees include former Nextel Partners Inc. CEO John Chapple, former Grey Global Group Inc. CEO Edward Meyer, Jaynie Studenmund, the former chief operating officer of Overture Services Inc., which was later acquired by Yahoo, and former …read more




