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Internet search engine Yahoo is looking for a new CEO. The current chief executive, Jerry Yang, is stepping down.

Yang co-founded the company but he's only been CEO for a year and a half. During his short tenure, he infuriated shareholders by stopping a deal with Microsoft, which offered to buy Yahoo for $31 a share.

Yahoo's stock price is now trading at a third of that. With Yang leaving the corner office, some say a deal with Microsoft is inevitable.

Yang will have a seat on the board.

Search giant's stock price closes below $300 for first time since 2005, as widespread predictions of an ad recession prompt analysts to slash company estimates.

General Motors' stock price plunged another 15% Tuesday as the battered automaker said it plans to lay off nearly 2,000 hourly workers.

Last month, Microsoft announced it was going to spend $40 billion buying back its own stock. Traditionally, that would have meant a payday for its investors.

With Microsoft using its own spare cash to reduce the number of outstanding shares, earnings per share should have improved, and the stock price should have ticked upwards.

Novell has a prime opportunity to use its crumbling stock price to its advantage.

After its stock price dropped 46% earlier this week, Washington Mutual sought to reassure the market by revealing part of its expected third-quarter performance.

Lehman Brothers has finally announced a path to raising capital. But after Tuesday's 45% plunge in its stock price, it's unclear if Wall Street will let chief executive officer Richard Fuld carry out the plan.

Yahoo shares shot up nearly 6 percent in earning-morning trading Wednesday, on word that Microsoft may seek partners to make another bid for the company's search business.

General Motors stock price fell almost 11% Thursday, to the lowest level in more than 33 years, as analysts reacted to a Goldman Sachs downgrade and continued concerns about the automaker's competitiveness.

A CNET reader provided this screen shot of the stock-price display glitch.

Some users of the customizable My Yahoo portal were unable to see prices for their lists of company stocks for a few days, but the Internet company said the problem has been fixed.