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Wall St lukewarm as Yahoo hails new chief

By Chris Nuttall and Richard Waters in San Francisco

Published: January 13 2009 22:33 | Last updated: January 14 2009 00:35

Yahoo appointed software veteran Carol Bartz as its new chief executive on Tuesday, an appointment viewed by Wall Street as safe but unspectacular.

Bartz to “kick butt”

Ms Bartz, 60, takes up the position immediately. She was previously executive chairwoman of Autodesk, a design software company that she led as chief executive for 14 years, and is a board member of Intel and Cisco Systems.

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