jerry yang. Yahoo just announced that co-founder Jerry Yang has resigned from its board of directors. “My time at Yahoo!, from its founding to the present, has encompassed some of the most exciting and rewarding

In an end of an era at Yahoo, founder Jerry Yang has stepped down from the struggling Internet company's board.

Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock said on Tuesday that Jerry Yang, co-founder and a director of the embattled internet giant, has left the 17-year-old firm with immediate effect, representing a victory for activist hedge fund Third Point which had been

By Tom Loftus When The Wall Street Journal first wrote about Yahoo in 1995, co-founders Jerry Yang and David Filo were fresh-faced Stanford graduate students and the Web, or the “Internet's World Wide Web,” as the article refers to it, was a small but

Some analysts say the Yahoo board's indecision stems in part from Mr Yang's sway in the company. "Jerry Yang was certainly an impediment toward anything happening," said Morningstar analyst Rick Summer. "This is a company that's been mired by a bunch