Yahoo! Inc.がプレスリリースを出しています。
それによれば、
Yahoo! Conducting Search for New CEO
Co-Founder Jerry Yang to Step Down Following Appointment of New CEO
and Return to Former Role as Chief Yahoo! and Board Member
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov 17, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) –
Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO) today announced that its Board of Directors has initiated a search for a new Chief Executive Officer. Jerry Yang, co-Founder of Yahoo!, has decided to return to his former role as Chief Yahoo! upon the appointment of his successor as CEO, and he will also continue to serve on the Board. Yang, 40, assumed the CEO role at the Board’s request in June 2007, and he has led Yahoo! through a strategic repositioning and transformation of its platform.
「Yahooは新CEOを探している。」と題した文書で、新CEO候補を探しており、見つかり次第、共同設立者で現CEOのジェリー・ヤン氏がCEOを辞任することを伝えています。
なお、ジェリー・ヤン氏は取締役に留まり、前職であるチーフYahoo!に復帰すると述べています。
このヤン氏辞任によりYahoo!株価が上昇するだろうと予測する記事もあり、今後の変化に注目が必要です。
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