The New York Times tried putting a horse’s head in Jerry
Yang’s bed Saturday, prophesying that his “days as Yahoo’s CEO are numbered.”
In a piece entitled “Oh Jerry, It’s No Longer Your Baby,” it
excoriated him for “shafting” Yahoo shareholders by running off Microsoft on
purpose and turning Yahoo into a Google “pawn.”
Then TechCrunch – in a piece reproduced in the Washington
Post – picked up the chant and called the Times article the “final straw” as
far as bad press goes and said that Yang was doomed.
“Yang will step down, our sources say,” it wrote. “It may be
next week or it may be next month, but it’s going to happen.”
The blog conjectures that Yahoo may whistle up either
long-gone Yahoo president Jeff Mallet or equally long-gone former COO Dan Rosenweig
to replace him since current president Sue Decker is too close to Yang and has
no operational experience.
The Wall Street Journal also drew up a list of possible Yang
replacements.
About Maureen O'Gara Maureen O'Gara the most read technology reporter for the past 20 years, is the Cloud Computing and Virtualization News Desk editor of SYS-CON Media. She is the publisher of famous "Billygrams" and the editor-in-chief of "Client/Server News" for more than a decade. One of the most respected technology reporters in the business, Maureen can be reached by email at maureen(at)sys-con.com or paperboy(at)g2news.com, and by phone at 516 759-7025.
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The New York Times tried putting a horse’s head in Jerry
Yang’s bed Saturday, prophesying that his “days as Yahoo’s CEO are numbered.” 
