Yahoo could merge with AOL without a new CEO

Posted on December 4, 2008 - 10:37 by Silicon Alley Insider

Yahoo chairman Roy Bostock is suddenly a man in a hurry. Not only does he believe Yahoo will name a new CEO before 2009 - about four weeks away -- he's also telling people that a long-discussed AOL-Yahoo merger could be completed as early as next week. "Bostock has intimated that Yahoo was ready to do a deal at any time in the next week or so to merge with AOL–with or without a new CEO in place," Kara Swisher reports.

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