(http://vid.geekazine.com/dith/uploads/2015/06/640px-Terry_Semel_Web_2.0_Conference1-213x300.jpg)Terry Semel

2007 – Terry Semel was under pressure  by the board because of dissatisfaction of his compensation. Terry was brought in to create a partnership with Hollywood, which really didn’t happen. He handed the reigns over to Jerry Yang, who started promising revitalized talks with Microsoft. There are a few that even speculate that was when the buyout of Yahoo began. Jerry Yang stepped down in 200

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* 1999 – Palm announces the m100* 2009 – Jammie Thomas-Rasset was found guilty of copyright infringement and ordered to pay 1.92 million to the RIAA.* Microsoft announced the Surface Tablet