Yahoo seeks a clean break and a new CEO

November 19th, 2008 By John Letzing

Yahoo Inc. is coming out from the Jerry Yang era with a share price unseen since the aftermath of the bursting of the Internet bubble, and with rival Google Inc. in firmer command of the market for online search.



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