By Yi-Wyn Yen
SAN FRANCISCO - In the past ten months, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang has faced a hostile takeover attempt by Microsoft, shareholder lawsuits, a proxy fight led by Carl Icahn and, on Wednesday, watched a much-needed partnership with Google (GOOG) go up in flames. Yet the embattled Yahoo chief says he has no regrets that he took on the job.
“I didn’t make the decision of being the CEO lightly,” Yang told a packed crowd of 800 at the Web 2.0 Summit late Wednesday afternoon, hours after Google announced it was pulling out of an ad partnership with Yahoo to avoid a federal antitrust suit.
“I wanted to make a change at Yahoo that I believe I can make,” he said. “That’s a dream that I felt I could achieve by being CEO, and that’s still the dream today. And that’s something that gets lost underneath all these external issues.”
He added, [...]
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By Yi-Wyn Yen
SAN FRANCISCO - Intel CEO Paul Otellini, who runs the world’s largest semiconductor business, gave a sobering view of the economy to the Web 2.0 Summit crowd Thursday.
If you think the recession is bad now, says the Intel (INTC) chief, a year from now will be worse. “This is the deepest one I’ve seen in my lifetime. All the smart people that I talk to tell us the U.S. is in for a two-to-three quarter recession,” Otellini said. “Unemployment peaks lag GDP. We’ll see much larger unemployment a year from now.”
In its weekly report, the Labor Department said new claims for unemployment dropped slightly to a seasonally adjusted 481,000 for the week ending Nov. 1. But every day more job cuts are announced. In the past week alone, big tech companies like Cisco (CSCO), Electronic Arts (ERTS), Motorola (MOT), and Xerox (XRX) have announced layoffs or hiring freezes.
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