Yahoo Opens Its Checkbook

摘要

Less than three minutes into an interview at Yahoo! 's Sunnyvale (Calif.) headquarters, Chief Executive Carol Bartz is eager to tell reporters how she would grade her first-year performance: She gives herself a B-. Deal-making may help her work up to an A. "You're going to see more acquisitions this year," says Bartz, 6l, who in January 2000 replaced Terry Yang asrnCEO of Yahoo, the Web portal that organizes online information, provides e-mail, and sells Internetrnadvertising. Potential targets include overseas companies and data analytics businesses that help companies assess their advertising results, she says. "Last year people talked about, 'Oh, Yahoo is trying to get smaller,'" Bartz says. "We were never trying to get smaller. We were just trying to get more focused."