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Two new members have been added to Yahoo!'s board of directors as the web biz continues to ponder its future. The Purple Palace announced on Thursday that former Morgan Stanley managing director Catherine Friedman and former Broadcom CFO Erik Brandt would take the seats vacated last year when Charles Schwab and Max Levchin …

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  1. Pete4000uk

    Yah...

    Whoo?

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  2. Florida1920

    Meet the coroner

    Friedman's Morgan Stanley tenure includes a stint as a "strategic and transaction advisor" with the investment firm's healthcare and biotech branch.

    She's been brought into pronounce the patient officially dead. Once that's done they can start selling off the body parts. Past time for Yahoo! to go the way of Metacrawler, AltaVista and AOL.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Exit strategy ...

    Yes, it's time to manage the transition ... basically get upper management out with a nice fat paycheck and settlement, and flog off anything not nailed down to pay for the executive packages.

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  4. Robert Moore

    AOL and Yahoo! together at last

    A juggernaut, and force to be reckoned with.

    Oh, wait it isn't 1990 anymore...

    Nevermind.

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  5. a_yank_lurker

    What value?

    The putrid palace is just another semi-marginal player on the Internet that has missed many opportunities through the years.

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  6. ElectricRook

    Typical bankers mentality. They should instead fire all executive staff and replace them all with the first twenty grads from Stanford and Berkeley. In a year Yahoo would be trouncing Google.

    But then again the purpose of a manager is to line his own pockets and not that of his employer and shareholders,

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    1. Captain Dallas
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      They should have fired 'watercooler moments' Meyer years ago after it was quickly obvious she was out of her depth.

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  7. IHateWearingATie

    Return the cash to shareholders

    Break it up, sell it off and shut down the rest. Return the cash to shareholders.

    Time to put Yahoo out of its misery

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