Yahoo CEO Yang: Negotiating With Shareholders Is 'Fun'

<a href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/jerry-yang-says-hes-the-best-deal-in-town/index.html">The New York Times</a>, <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2844722920080529">Reuters</a>

Jim Manico, OWASP Global Board Member

May 29, 2008

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Microsoft is the company that has ruled out a merger for now, not Yahoo, according to Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, who spoke on Wednesday as The Wall Street Journal?s "D: All Things Digital" conference in Carlsbad, Calif.Since full-blown acquisition talks were called off earlier this month, the two companies have been discussing a new deal involving Yahoo's search-advertising business. At the same time, investor Carl Icahn is leading shareholders against Yahoo's current board; at one point, Yang called those negotiations "fun."

Joining Yang at the conference was Yahoo president Susan Decker. Both acknowledged getting too close to the company's products and too far from its customers. Their plans call for a more narrowly focused Web services firm that's banking on Internet display advertising, as well as becoming the launching pad for travels in cyberspace for hundreds of millions of Web surfers.The New York Times, Reuters

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Jim Manico

OWASP Global Board Member

Jim Manico is a Global Board Member for the OWASP foundation where he helps drive the strategic vision for the organization. OWASP's mission is to make software security visible, so that individuals and organizations worldwide can make informed decisions about true software security risks. OWASP's AppSecUSA<https://2015.appsecusa.org/c/> conferences represent the nonprofit's largest outreach efforts to advance its mission of spreading security knowledge, for more information and to register, see here<https://2015.appsecusa.org/c/?page_id=534>. Jim is also the founder of Manicode Security where he trains software developers on secure coding and security engineering. He has a 18 year history building software as a developer and architect. Jim is a frequent speaker on secure software practices and is a member of the JavaOne rockstar speaker community. He is the author of Iron-Clad Java: Building Secure Web Applications<http://www.amazon.com/Iron-Clad-Java-Building-Secure-Applications/dp/0071835881> from McGraw-Hill and founder of Brakeman Pro. Investor/Advisor for Signal Sciences.

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