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Yahoo CEO promises shareholders to get 'mojo back'

Jun. 25, 2009
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz assured shareholders that the slumping Internet company will "get our mojo back" as she tries to end a three-year slump that confounded her two predecessors. Bartz made the pledge Thursday during her first shareholder meeting since Yahoo...
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, competes in Scripps National Spelling Bee
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Lori Anne Madison, 6, of Woodbridge, Virginia, spells out the letters in her word as she competes during the opening round of the Scripps National Spelling Bee, May 30, 2012, in National Harbor, Maryland. Madison, the youngest known qualifier in the history of the contest, correctly spelled the word "dirigible*", a lighter-than-air aircraft, to advance. UPI/Mike Theiler