Jerry Yang To Workforce: Nevermind The Pitchforks And Torches. Keep Coding.

The past 24 hours have been thoroughly intriguing. It hasn’t been very long since Yahoo and Microsoft ceased their deeply fouled rendezvous with a reversal from Redmond. And though Yahoo seems to have staved off a shareholder mutiny in post-prod, at least for the short term, it is now forced to contend with a purportedly peeved Carl C. Icahn . As many have now learned, the billionaire investor now claims himself as a shareholder of the Sunnyvale-based Web giant. And in this newfound role, he strongly suggests to the Yahoo board that they reconsider a purchase by Microsoft. (Semi-official word from Microsoft is that the company has “moved on� from its buyout attempt.) Now, we heard yesterday from Yahoo’s chairman, Roy Bostock, as to the company’s aversion to Icahn’s suggestive hostility play. Yet in the hours following Yahoo’s initial volley, word has also escaped the CEO’s desk, according to Dawn Kawamoto of CNET News , intended to update the execut...