Yahoo was Jerry Yang's baby. He did a great job creating the baby. Unfortunately, some of the key executives after the foundation of the company couldn't keep up with the technology innovation of the industry. They thought that Yahoo should become a media company.

I said from the very beginning, 'Yahoo should position itself as a technology innovation company, not as a media company.'

Yahoo! had a choice. It chose to provide an e-mail service hosted on servers based inside China, making itself subject to Chinese legal jurisdiction. It didn't have to do that. It could have provided a service hosted offshore only.

Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising.

We're extremely excited about the assets that Yahoo has in the areas of Sports and Finance and Email and News. You match those up with AOL, and we've just made an exponential leap in capabilities here.

Partnering with CNBC will allow Yahoo! Finance to expand its offerings instantly and enhance its position as the most viewed and utilized finance site in the world.

Yahoo is in everything from pets to old people to finance to communications to e-commerce and more, and I really thrive on that.

Back when 'social' had a broad definition, you could almost say that Yahoo Finance chat was the first social product.

Technology ventures can succeed with very little investment, unlike many other industries. A lot of the big Internet players like Google or Yahoo were started by a couple of guys with computers. Microsoft was started in Bill Gates' garage.

The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!

Half of Google's revenue comes from selling text-based ads that are placed near search results and are related to the topic of the search. Another half of its revenues come from licensing its search technology to companies like Yahoo.

Yahoo! is the only company with both scale and leadership in branded and search advertising.

The Internet is a powerful way to make lots of money... But we are not going to buy Yahoo!

If an Internet company steals content they shut it down. And let me tell you Apple France Yahoo France or Google France none of them have gone out of business.