Silicon Alley Insider serves up an update in the Yahoo CEO search. Despite conflicting reports in the press, SAI sources claim that former AOL CEO Jonathan Miller wants the job and is first choice
inside Yahoo. As
The Wall Street Journal reported, Miller would prefer to raise money to buy Yahoo before running it; that way he stands to profit enormously from the Web giant's turnaround.
Even if that doesn't work out, Miller would take the job anyway.
However, former Yahoo COO Dan Rosensweig is gaining momentum as the second most likely candidate. One source even claims that
Yahoo is now only contacting other candidates "for show" and that the board has already decided on Rosensweig for the job.
Meanwhile, Yahoo President Sue Decker joins the lengthy list of
current and former Web execs who will almost certainly not be succeeding Jerry Yang as CEO. SAI sources claim Decker -- not Yang -- is responsible for the Microsoft debacle, and has thus been
discounted from the running. Former AOL media boss Mike Kelly is also not considered candidate. Neither is News Corp. COO Peter Chernin or Google's VP of Ad Sales, Tim Armstrong.
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