MarketFoolery: 01.18.2012
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🗓️ 18 January 2012
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang steps down and shares of Yahoo! move up. Our analysts discuss the big Yahoo! news and debate the future of Research in Motion.
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| 0:00.0 | It's Wednesday, January 18th, and this is Market Fullry. |
| 0:05.0 | I'm Chris Helton joining me in studio today from Motley Full Asset Management, Tim Hanson, |
| 0:09.0 | and from Motley Full Inside Value, Uncle Joe Meager. |
| 0:12.0 | Gentlemen, good to see you. |
| 0:13.0 | Howdy. |
| 0:14.0 | We have got the latest with the Mobile Phone Wars and we will dip into the full mail bag, |
| 0:18.0 | but we are going to start with Yahoo. |
| 0:21.0 | Co-founder Jerry Yang has resigned from the board of directors at Yahoo. Co-founder Jerry Yang has resigned from the board of directors at Yahoo, Yahoo Japan, and Alibaba Group. |
| 0:27.2 | Tim shares of Yahoo up on the news. |
| 0:31.2 | What do you think of this? |
| 0:32.2 | Well, it's a long time coming. |
| 0:35.0 | You know, we published an open letter on full funds.com not too long ago advocating for change on the Yahoo board. |
| 0:42.0 | We're glad this is happening. not too long ago advocating for change on the Yahoo board. |
| 0:43.0 | We're glad this is happening. |
| 0:44.6 | I think anyone invested in Yahoo |
| 0:45.8 | should be glad this is happening. |
| 0:47.8 | And the reason is that, like a lot of founders, |
| 0:49.9 | I think Jerry Yang took a lot of ownership over his company, probably ownership in excess of his actual ownership, so to speak. |
| 0:58.0 | And the reports I was reading said he, you know, the board tended to run a lot of things by him and deferred to him in terms of |
| 1:04.6 | where Yahoo should be going towards in the future and you know where Yahoo should be going |
| 1:08.9 | from an investor perspective is it should probably be breaking apart its assets to realize their full value |
| 1:14.2 | and then sort of refocusing on its U.S. internet business to figure out where their strengths are |
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