AllThingsD: Yahoo's Board is MIA

It’s tempting for most people to blame Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang for the company’s recent stumbles, particularly his hard-nosed rejection (twice) of Microsoft’s rather generous $47.5 billion buyout offer—especially now that Yahoo’s stock is in a death spiral. But as Kara Swisher writes on AllThingsD, maybe the blame isn’t so clear-cut.

“Because, to my mind, if there is anyone to cast stones at in the ongoing crisis at Yahoo, BoomTown would have to toss a large boulder in the direction of the company’s incredibly shrinking board,” Swisher writes, since they’re the ones who are charged with keeping Yahoo on track.

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