Terry Semel news stories on Newser

Media Moguls: Obama's Scaring Big Business

Kevin Spak — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:02:00 CDT

The Sun Valley summit of media titans last week was a dour affair, with the CEOs lamenting the poor state of the economy—and how little faith they have in the Obama administration to fix it. In on- and off-the-record conversations with the moguls, Peter Lauria of the Daily Beast...

Sexual Confusion Drove LiLo to Drugs, Men

Elizabeth Wolff — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:02:02 CDT

Lindsay Lohan bedded a string of men and took drugs to suppress her lesbian urges before she embraced her relationship with Samantha Ronson, a pal of the actress’ ex-girlfriend tells the tabloid News of the World . “From the start Lindsay was very confused about her feelings so did more and...

Lohan Can't Get Enough of New Gal Pal

Matt Cantor — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 19:41:59 CST

In what may be both good and bad news for the guy community, Lindsay Lohan appears to have developed an extremely close female friend: Courtenay Semel, daughter of Yahoo! CEO Terry. They were recently spotted at a party hosted by "Power Lesbian" Jeanette Longoria, holding hands, reports a source for...

Yahoo! CEO Logs Off

Dustin Lushing — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:48:01 CDT

Yahoo CEO Terry Semel is out. In a surprise announcement, Yahoo said today that co-founder Jerry Yang will take over from Semel as CEO, who will step down immediately. The embattled Semel, who's been the target of recent shareholder ire, will stick around as non-executive chairman; Susan Decker, former head...

Investors Clash With Yahoo CEO

Dustin Lushing — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 10:34:00 CDT

Investors railed yesterday against Yahoo Inc.'s management team in an unusually rowdy session of the search engine's annual shareholders' meeting. Angry investors interrogated CEO Terry Semel over his $107.5M paycheck and the company's slumping stock price, which fell 9% in the last year. A third of shareholders mutinied...