SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo Inc.'s management ranks are rapidly thinning as the Internet pioneer fends off a shareholder mutiny threatening to culminate in the firing of Chief Executive Jerry Yang.Three more executives have decided to jump ship, according to reports published Thursday by two blogs - AllThingsD and Techcrunch - and The New York Times. The reports were based on unnamed people with knowledge of the departures.
The latest defectors reportedly are: Qi Lu, an executive vice president in charge of Yahoo's search and advertising technology; Brad Garlinghouse, a senior vice president who oversees communications tools like mail; and Vish Makhijani, a senior vice president involved in search.
Garlinghouse is the best known of the trio. In 2006, he wrote a scathing memo arguing that Yahoo had gone awry and needed a major housecleaning. The so-called "manifesto" caused a stir when it was leaked to The Wall Street Journal.
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