In a filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Yahoo said executive vice president of the American region Hilary Schneider will be 'leaving Yahoo after a transition period.'
The documents shed new light on how the government dealt with US Internet companies that were reluctant to comply with orders from the secretive US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which rules on government requests to conduct surveillance for national security issues.
200 engineers may join its Bengaluru R&D centre.
In July, Yahoo was sold to US telecoms giant Verizon for $4.8 billion.
De Castro is the second big appointment that Yahoo! has made from its rival Google. Earlier this year, Yahoo! appointed former Google executive Marissa Mayer as its chief executive.
The Indian arm of the global search engine and web provider, Yahoo, on Tuesday said that it had not put a freeze on hiring and that campus recruitment plans were still on.
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Nicholas Carr, a leading tech critic and former executive editor of the Harvard Business Review, believes that whatever the ultimate outcome of the transaction, the eagerness of Microsoft to launch such a bid "tells us a lot about the changing shape of business on the Internet and how competition is likely to play out in the future."
Yahoo! Inc, the Internet company that rejected a takeover offer from Microsoft Corp., reported a 64 per cent drop in profit after advertisers curbed spending. The company also announced plans to cut at least 10 per cent of jobs.
Early last year, officials of the Beijing State Security Bureau had asked Yahoo China for information about dissident journalist Shi Tao. In an action that aroused ire worldwide, Yahoo elected to give up the information from its database; Tao was subsequently arrested and sentenced to ten years in prison for his pro-democracy writings.
The layoffs would mark the most aggressive step yet by Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, who began a reorganisation to revive the company's fortunes after taking over from movie studio mogul Terry Semel in June 2007, the San Francisco Chronicle reported on Monday.
What will the board have to promise someone to take the job? Well, to start with, it will have to throw in certain financial guarantees. The pay package must have lots of incentives and protections. If it doesn't work out in six months, the person will need end up with a healthy amount of money.
Yahoo Inc struck a deal with Firefox maker Mozilla Corp to replace Google Inc as the default search engine on the Firefox Web browser in the United States, a move that Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer said will help boost its flagging search market share.
Buying Yahoo's assets would expand DailyMail.com's reach and improve its digital ad rev
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Google Inc is expected to command more than a third of the world's $140 billion digital advertising spending this year
Internet major Yahoo is planning to cut 650 jobs or about five per cent of its total workforce, says a media report. "Yahoo, the beleaguered Web portal, plans to cut up to 650 jobs as soon as Tuesday," The New York Times reported citing a source.
Yahoo and Google are close to sealing a search advertising alliance that would leave Microsoft out in the cold as it hunts for a way to boost its own flagging search business, according to a person familiar with the matter. Separately Yahoo said on Thursday that talks with Microsoft on the latter's bid for the company were now over.
Goldman brings more than 30 years of experience in financial, operational and business management.
Yahoo's most recent permanent CEO, Scott Thompson, resigned in May amid allegations of manipulating his educational qualifications, just five months after he was hired.
US-based Internet search engine, Yahoo!, is in talks to acquire a minority stake in Indiatimes, the online business of Bennett & Coleman, publisher of English dailiesTimes of India and Economic Times.
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Software giant Microsoft and Internet major Yahoo! on Wednesday signed a 10-year search deal that will see the two firms jointly challenging the dominance of Google in the search business.
Internet company Yahoo!'s co-founder Jerry Yang has quit the company he founded 17 years ago.
Various news reports suggest that the PE firm, if it buys out Yahoo, would first sell off the Internet company's Asian assets. Silver Lake would thereafter, a report said, try to either turn the 'remaining' company around or find yet another buyer for the main operations.
The US-based Internet giant Yahoo Inc, accused of hosting allegedly objectionable content on its site, got relief from a Delhi court which removed it from the list of accused parties.
Yahoo! has about 2,000-strong workforce in India and it is likely that about 60 people would be impacted by the decision, the sources said, and added that 'a significant number of employees were affected due to poor performance and only a few of them due to the slowdown'.
Yahoo India, a subsidiary of Yahoo! Inc., will concentrate on wireless data services as it expects a large growth in the sector due to rise in mobile phone users in the country.
Internet giant Yahoo may shed its substantial holding in China's Alibaba Group and in its Japanese affiliate in transactions totalling about $18 billion, says a media report.
Online search giant Google has come out openly against Microsoft's $45-billion takeover bid for Yahoo, terming the deal as a threat to openness of the Internet.
Yahoo!'s drive to revive its business hit major roadblocks on Tuesday, as the company's talks to sell back most of its stakes in its Asian partners collapsed and a big investor unveiled plans to mount a board fight.
Internet major Yahoo's board of directors met on Friday to discuss Microsoft's takeover offer and to consider the option of a deal with Time Warner's AOL.The meeting follows a series of developments this week, which saw software major Microsoft threatening the internet giant with hostile takeover unless it accepts the deal within three weeks and Yahoo once again declining the offer.
In a letter to shareholders late night, Bostock and three other directors -- Vyomesh Joshi, Arthur Kern and Gary Wilson -- have volunteered not to stand for re-election to the company's board.
Microsoft's unsolicited bid of Yahoo has brought the latter in the midst of a legal storm, as 7 lawsuits have been filed against Yahoo.
Internet giant Yahoo! will reduce global workforce by five per cent and has reported a 78 per cent decline in net income in the first quarter amid slacking advertising revenues.
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