Jerry Yang

Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang's departure this week from the company should put in in a better position to take drastic action to fix its long-running woes.

Jack Ma, chief executive of Alibaba, says he would be "very interested" in acquiring slumping Internet pioneer Yahoo, which is looking for a buyer.

The 14 million Americans without jobs only wish they could be "f***ed over" the way the ousted Yahoo CEO complains she was.

Don't count on Yahoo's board of directors booting out CEO Carol Bartz, despite rumors of dissatisfaction with her performance.

For Jerry Yang, 2008 was going to be the year when Yahoo's long-awaited technology and business turnaround began in earnest. Instead, the year brought two big rounds of layoffs, an embarrassing exodus of high-profile managers, disappointing financials, a tanking stock price, free-falling employee morale and little or no advances in key areas, like search usage and search advertising. Oh yeah, and yet another corporate reorganization that many cynically viewed as more spinning of the wheels.

Whoever takes embattled Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang's place will need to pare the former Web sweetheart's services to effectively compete in a market where it is under siege from Google Inc. and multiple social media players for online advertising, analysts say.

Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang said he's willing to sell Yahoo to Microsoft, or do a search deal.