What's Yahoo To Do?

Silicon Valley venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz just announced that it's hired another special advisor. It's Ken Coleman, the former CEO of ITM.

By Helix Investment Management:Yahoo! (YHOO) is Silicon Valley's soap opera. Constant leaks to the press, a constantly shifting focus, and a revolving door in the C-suite make Yahoo! unlike any other major company in the Valley. However, Yahoo!'s newest CEO, Marissa Mayer, is the best chance yet that the company has for revitalizing itself, and we think that the company's stock is a buy on the back of this development.

Silicon Valley has more jobs than it did at the height of the dot-com boom.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo's dysfunctional turnaround efforts have morphed into a Silicon Valley soap opera, one that has taken another strange twist with the Internet company's ousting of CEO Scott Thompson just four months after his arrival....

By Adam Muller:Months after firing prior CEO Carol Bartz and undertaking a strategic review Yahoo (YHOO) announced Scott Thompson as its new CEO. Thompson’s background is given in the press release:

THE San Francisco Bay area is undergoing one of its periodic tech booms on the back of the flourishing of social networking firms. That boom, the Wall Street Journal tells us, is very good for local tech workers:

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