Day in Tech History

Day in Tech History


November 17, 2008: Jerry Yang Steps down as Yahoo! CEO

November 16, 2019

2008 – After battle upon battle between Microsoft, Google and shareholders (including Carl Icahn), Jerry Yang finally announced to all he was stepping down as CEO of Yahoo! The previous days, Steve Ballmer said they are not going forward with any future purchase of Yahoo! Because of this, stock hit it’s lowest share price, $8. […]