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The Wall Street Journal has struck a nerve at Yahoo with a story today that quotes several investors who say co-founder Jerry Yang is trying to reassert his power at the company by undermining the board’s effort to find a buyer. "News reports based on rumor and speculation are just that,” the company says in a…

Most on Wall Street expected a hot mess when Yahoo reported its third-quarter earnings after the closing bell today — and surprisingly, they didn’t get one. The struggling Internet giant kicked out CEO Carol Bartz mid-quarter and has been fielding offers to sell the company. And today Yahoo said earnings fell in the…

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is doing some behind-the-scenes pitching to major shareholders about a plan to have Yahoo acquire AOL, Reuters reported today. That he’s seeking a merger deal isn’t new, but the details are interesting: citing sources, he says such a move would save AOL $1 billion-$1.5 billion when redundancies…

In a memo leaked today, Yahoo co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo and chairman Roy Bostock gave employees a “next phase” update. It follows Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz being removed from her post September 6th, then rumors swirling that the board was getting closer to officially putting the company up for sale. The new…

Ousted Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is no longer on the company’s board of directors. Her decision to resign came several days after she was fired and replaced with CFO Tim Morse. Immediately afterward, she told Fortune that she planned to stay on the board in the interest of not abandoning Yahoo’s employees. Bartz’s…

AOL chief executive Tim Armstrong and advisers for Yahoo are discussing combining the two companies in the wake of Carol Bartz’s ouster as Yahoo CEO, Bloomberg reports. Armstrong perhaps sees his opening now that Bartz has been forced out — he was interested in a merger last year but was rebuffed. Armstrong has…

The business world would be a lot more fun if every fired CEO responded to the news the way Carol Bartz has. “These people fucked me over,” the former Yahoo chief tells Fortune in a story on the magazine’s website. Bartz says that chairman Roy Bostock dropped the ax in a Tuesday night phone call where he began by…

Carol Bartz has been replaced as CEO of Yahoo, the company said in a statement today. CFO Tim Morse has been appointed to the post on an interim basis after the company’s board of directors — including chairman Roy Bostock and co-founder Jerry Yang — made the decision to let her go after less than three years on the…