Yahoo shakes up the top managers, again

By Scott Moritz

Yahoo’s (YHOO) latest reorganization aligns three divisions under president Sue Decker.

Among the top changes, Ash Patel has been put in charge of the company’s Global Products group, Scott Dietzen takes the top communications slot and Hilary Schneider will take over a newly created job of U.S. unit chief, according to a company press release.

Not mentioned in the release is the status of Brad Garlinghouse, the author of the so-called peanut butter memo that criticized the company’s spread-thin-over-everything strategy. In BoomTown, a blog run by The Wall Street Journal and the outlet that first broke the news of the impending shakeup, author Kara Swisher says that Dietzen has taken over most of Garlinghouse’s duties.

The move comes in the wake of a failed takeover of Yahoo by Microsoft (MSFT) and a controversial search outsourcing partnership with rival Google (GOOG).

Yahoo shares fell 2% to $21.58 Thursday.

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Its nice that Ms. Decker is bringing some reasonable order to the yahoo camp, maybe when she finds the time, she can also make some changes in the Yahoo Qestions and Answers department that might very well help yahoo to avoid a very embarrassing moment with several of their major display advertisers. If she doesn’t get around to looking into what some of the ‘friendly’ yahoo employees are doing and have been doing, then she will have a very rocky road ahead of her in leading yahoo to becoming profitable again, lets hope for the best.

Posted By David Houston, Texas : June 26, 2008 2:47 pm

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