{"id":33650,"date":"2011-09-12T09:19:04","date_gmt":"2011-09-12T07:19:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=33650"},"modified":"2011-09-12T09:20:20","modified_gmt":"2011-09-12T07:20:20","slug":"bartz-resigns-from-yahoo-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/33650-bartz-resigns-from-yahoo-board.html","title":{"rendered":"Bartz resigns from Yahoo board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Carol Bartz\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/363734-Carol-Bartz\">Carol Bartz<\/a>, the ex-CEO of <a title=\"Yahoo\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/363118-Yahoo\">Yahoo<\/a> has resigned from her position on the company\u2019s board after being fired as CEO according to an unnamed sourced cited by The Wall Street Journal.<\/p>\n<p>The board gave no reason for <a title=\"Yahoo fires CEO: Report\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/business\/33384-yahoo-fires-ceo-report.html\">firing Bartz<\/a>, which was done over the phone early last week. Bartz held the CEO position for 30 months during which time Yahoo performed poorly.<\/p>\n<p>Bartz lashed out at the board during an interview with Fortune magazine saying they were under huge pressure after rejecting a $44.6 billion buyout offer from <a title=\"Microsoft\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/211580-Microsoft\">Microsoft <\/a>in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The board was so spooked by being cast as the worst board in the country,&#8221; said Bartz. &#8220;Now they&#8217;re trying to show that they&#8217;re not the doofuses that they are.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story over at: <a title=\"Cnet news site\" href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-1023_3-20104584-93\/bartz-bids-adieu-to-yahoo-board\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cnet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo Ex-CEO resigns from the board of directors<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":29544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[4506,123,2744],"class_list":["post-33650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-carol-bartz","tag-microsoft","tag-yahoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33650"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33654,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33650\/revisions\/33654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}