However, Carol Bartz and Roy Bostock received 20% of the shareholder votes cast against them.
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Bartz has done a terrible job explaining what is there and turning it around.
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Nearly two years ago, Bartz took on the herculean job of remaking the troubled Internet giant.
Which is not to say that it is too early for Bartz to get people believing.
Carol Bartz is gone and Dan Loeb is in as the 3rd largest investor.
And loud and very self-confident CEO Carol Bartz is doing nothing to rectify that problem.
In the case of Yahoo, when Bartz arrived she was the third CEO in three years.
As Jeff Bercovici noted earlier tonight, Carol Bartz is now out as CEO at Yahoo!
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The new version of email will likely be generally available in May, Bartz said.
Costs could be contained, Bartz indicated, by more efficient content creation and management software.
Carol Bartz, the Yahoo CEO so publicly fired last week, had the right idea.
Ms. Bartz said in a recent interview she needed more time to pull off a turnaround.
Ma says he and Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz have some different views on the China market.
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Since Bartz was brought in as CEO, Yahoo really has not seen the turn around it expected.
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The average tenure is even shorter for chief executives recruited, like Ms Bartz, from outside the firm.
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Some shareholders expect a more welcoming response now from Bartz and her board to any new Microsoft approach.
Terry Semel, Jerry Yang, Carol Bartz, Scott Thompson and now (at least on an interim basis) Ross Levinsohn.
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Bartz looked like a fish out of water on day one and eventually she crashed and burned badly.
Sounds like better management, which is what chief executive Carol Bartz trumpeted in a statement accompanying the earnings.
But Ms Bartz's abrasive management style has meant there has been considerable turnover in the senior ranks at Yahoo!
Chief Executive Carol Bartz, whose three children are aged 21 to 31.
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Bartz exclaimed, as she took the stage Tuesday afternoon with interviewer John Battelle.
Carol Bartz certainly has a worse reputation now than she did before Yahoo.
Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz recently called Facebook her company's top competitor.
"We know we need to be easier to do business with, " Bartz says.
Executives like Bartz and Mason have to assume that company-wide emails will leak.
Why did Bartz get the boot in the middle of what would turn out to be a relatively decent quarter?
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Bartz clearly was a successful CEO of Autodesk and likely would be successful at another engineer targeted packaged software company.
Yahoo has been facing turmoil at its corporate level since September, when CEO Carol Bartz was fired.
Bartz continues to be silent on how she will enhance shareholder value which, he says, has been in a sinkhole.
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