Today's Outrage: Yahoo!'s Yang Gets Yanked

With the stock at $10 and memories of Microsoft's $33-per-share bid, Yahoo! is looking for a new CEO again.

Jerry Yang's exit from the CEO role at Yahoo! (YHOO) was inevitable.

The big question is why Yahoo! is even bothering to look for a replacement. Surely

Microsoft

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will want to put its own cronies in charge. Isn't that inevitable, too?

Yang fought Microsoft's overtures and the $33-per-share takeover offer,

have dropped to about $10, and now Yang's stepping aside. That's no coincidence.



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Personally, I feel bad for Yang. He never had a fighting chance. The

collapsed out from under him as the crisis in the

engulfed everything in its path. The

is now heading straight into recession, and online advertising is shriveling up.

Yahoo! may well have been better off without Microsoft. But it looks like we'll never know.