Yahoo's Yang makes a great punching bag

Sramana Mitra pulls no punches when assessing where to place the blame for Yahoo! Inc.'s [YHOO] woes. "I don't think anything is going to change from a business point of view until they replace Jerry Yang as CEO," says the technology consultant and blogger. "They need an operational turnaround CEO. Both sides of the business, strategy and operations, are broken and everything I've heard from Jerry Yang on strategy makes no sense whatsoever. And if you have a road map that's broken, you can't go anywhere." Despite a lot of chatter that someone has to take the fall for Yahoo! failing to strike a deal with Microsoft Corp. [MSFT] and that Yang is the logical choice, the company co-founder himself said on Tuesday he is committed to staying in the top spot. -- David Shabelman See June 20 post on Yang from Tech ConfidentialSee July... [read full story]