Hide your prized chief operating officers! Sparing no expense, Yahoo is hot on the trail of a new COO, reports AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher. Yahoo is looking for someone with what Swisher calls
“turnaround experience.” Yet, “It is not clear if [new CEO Marissa Mayer is on board with this plan for a COO. Sources tell Swisher that Mayer has different ideas for the management
organization at Yahoo, “including an elaborate general manager system that is similar to that at Google.”