After Bartz, What's Next for Yahoo?

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No amount of tough talk is going to help Carol Bartz in this situation.

After a rocky two-and-a-half-year tenure as CEO of the Sunnyvale, Calif.-based tech giant Yahoo, the famously brash Bartz has been replaced by Yahoo CFO Tim Morse, who will serve as interim CEO. The Wall Street Journal blog All Things Digital broke the news late yesterday, and the company later confirmed that Bartz had been dismissed as CEO. A committee has been formed to oversee a search for a permanent chief executive.

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