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Yahoo to name Carol Bartz as new CEO: report


    SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc plans to name former Autodesk Chief Executive Carol Bartz as the Internet network's next chief executive, The Wall Street Journal reported on its website on Tuesday, citing sources familiar with the situation.

    The offer would end Yahoo's two-month search for a chief executive to succeed co-founder Jerry Yang, who agreed in November to step down as chief executive as soon as the Internet company found a replacement.

    Yang, who took on the CEO role in 2007, faced growing criticism from investors, including Carl Icahn, for rejecting a buyout offer from Microsoft Corp. Microsoft withdrew its $47.5 billion buyout offer in May.

    Bartz, 60, is a longtime Silicon Valley executive who was the CEO of Autodesk Inc until 2006.

    A Yahoo spokesman declined to comment.

    (Reporting by Robert MacMillan and Anupreeta Das in San Francisco and Yinka Adegoke in New York; Editing by Derek Caney)