Scott Thomson new CEO of Yahoo!

Web portal Yahoo! announced Wednesday, January 4, the appointment of Scott Thompson as the new CEO Carol Bartz to replace, thanked her in September. His appointment is effective January 9, when Mr. Thomson on the board of directors. The Acting Executive Director Tim Morse then resume his duties as chief financial officer, is it said in a statement. Mr. Thompson was president of PayPal, online payment service from eBay. In an internal message sent to employees of eBay, the CEO of online auction site, John Donahoe, described as “shock” the departure of Scott Thompson.

Mr. Thompson will have primary mission is to advance the group’s sales and market share advertising, which stagnated while Ms. Bartz was the head of Yahoo!. Despite a partnership with Microsoft for its search engine Bing, and the strategic stake in e-commerce site Alibaba China, the group was unable to regain its economic dynamism past.

The announcement comes as Yahoo! also consider, according to the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal to sell its Asian assets.

In 2008, Yahoo had rejected an unsolicited offer from Microsoft worth about $ 44 billion (34 billion euros). His action was later dropped. Yahoo‘s market capitalization is currently around $ 20 billion (15.4 billion euros).

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