Tag: yahoo

  • Yahoo reports lackluster results as sale looms

    Yahoo Inc's (YHOO.O) quarterly earnings fell short of Wall Street expectations on Monday in what may be the company's last financial report before it sells its core business. Yahoo reported adjusted earnings of 9 cents per share, short of the 10 cents that analysts expected. Yahoo is in the process of auctioning off its search…

  • Yahoo hires investment bank to sell about 3,000 patents: WSJ

    The company has sent letters to a number of potential buyers for the patents, which date back to when the company was founded in 1996 and also include its original search technology, the report said. The deadline for bids for the patents has been set for mid-June by Yahoo, according to the Wall Street Journal.…

  • Yahoo to cut 15 percent jobs, close several units: WSJ

    (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Marissa Mayer is set to reveal cost-cutting plans that include slashing 15 percent of the company's workforce, or roughly 1,600 jobs, and closing several business units, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The plans are expected to be announced after Yahoo's fourth-quarter results on Tuesday, the Journal reported,…

  • Yahoo board in final talks on future of company

    By Deborah M. Todd SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Yahoo Inc's board of directors on Friday is in the third and final day of meetings that could decide the future of one of Silicon Valley's most prominent but troubled companies. One option on the table for the nine board members is whether to sell Yahoo's core…