Tag archive: Rich Riley

The man who’s spent that last two years reducing European business costs for Yahoo is leaving the company. Toby Coppel, who was brought in by then-chairman Terry Semel in 2001 is leaving the company in a move that Yahoo says is unrelated to the departure of chief executive Jerry Yang. He will be replaced by Rich Riley, who currently heads Yahoo's advertiser and publisher group in Europe. Riley will be based in the new company… Read More

It couldn’t have happened at a worse time. On the Monday after Thanksgiving, the busiest online shopping day of the year, an outage on Yahoo meant merchantswere unable to process orders.   According to Yahoo, the service went down at 6am Pacific time. It was restored, at a slow speed by 1 pm, but it was 6 pm before everything was once again runningnormally.   Unsurprisingly, retailers using the service were far from happy.  … Read More