Yet, we were successful in rallying the institutional investors to vote out Terry Semel as CEO.
In 2007, I led an activist campaign to oust Terry Semel as the CEO of Yahoo!
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While Semel and Milchan sometimes compete in art auctions, one usually defers to the other.
Yahoo ( YHOO - news - people ) chief Terry Semel.
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Terry Semel , who ran Warner Bros. studio for years, is now running Yahoo!
Just last year, Semel and wife Jane listed and sold their swank Beverly Hills mansion.
Terry Semel had a hand in the making of 400 films in 24 years at Warner Bros.
Terry Semel, Jerry Yang, Carol Bartz, Scott Thompson and now (at least on an interim basis) Ross Levinsohn.
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Milchan invited Semel to run it, but he opted to head up Yahoo, a decision he came to regret.
Semel was booked long before word got out last week that Microsoft 's on-again, off-again acquisition talks with Yahoo!
Right now some of it seems oddly homespun compared with the glitz of Hollywood, where Semel used to reign.
Instead, Semel will most likely talk about his favorite topic these days: partnership.
Chambers or Terry Semel and find out how it shakes out in terms of perks taken and value created?
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Perhaps after 10 years in the saddle, Zuckerberg and Pincus will make questionable decisions just like Whitman and Semel did.
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Gut instinct, a staple at Barry Diller's InterActive Corp. and at Terry Semel's Yahoo, isn't in evidence at this company.
By June 2004 Semel was thinking harder about mining the 10 terabytes of data per day that Yahoo collects on Internet activity.
Sadly Semel will probably only touch upon two of them, at most.
Among its backers: Terry Semel, who watched his investment go to zero.
Mr Semel has changed the site to make it more attractive to advertisers, while adding new job listings and other fee-based services.
Terry S. Semel, chief executive of Yahoo, was this year's top earner.
Even likelier bidders are two internet firms, Yahoo and InterActiveCorp, whose respective bosses, Terry Semel and Barry Diller, hail fom the entertainment world.
Since leaving Silicon Valley behind, Semel has resided in Los Angeles and has gobbled up some exceptional real estate in the area.
Both Murdoch and Semel say they'll play Milchan only if they can grab his wife and former tennis pro Amanda as a partner in doubles.
's (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) Terry Semel jumps into second place, yet still trails behind Jobs with 85%.
Chief Executive TerrySemelTerry Semel and crew were simply trying to get TV ad buyers to think about shifting more of their ad budgets to the Net.
Now, having revived Yahoo in four years as its chief executive, Semel promises a whole new kind of entertainment in a most hostile setting: the Internet.
The scientists can search all they want, but ultimately it will be up to Yahoo's millions of users to help Terry Semel pull off this entertainment gambit.
Chief Executive Terry Semel and crew were simply trying to get TV ad buyers to think about shifting more of their ad budgets to the Net.
To be sure, Semel presided over a long list of successful deals with Internet companies during his tenure, including key acquisitions like Inktomi and Overture, which provided Yahoo!
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