Yahoo is Friendless On Wall Street

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Jerry Yang, Yahoo’s CEO, this morning posted what can be described as an emotional blog post about the Microsoft-Yahoo buyout saga. He reinforces the points he has made all along: that Yahoo needs to execute, innovate and develop more focus. Good intentions, but apparently not many are buying it. You should read the comments in Go to site

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