I am becoming a fan of Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz.

Quoted: Asked about whether Yahoo should display more hard news on its home page, Bartz said, “I’m with you. If I see another thing on Britney Spears, I will throw up.” The intent, she said, is to deliver news that people want in a personalized way.

Quoted: BoomTown, who never met a Yahoo story I didn’t like to write up, is handing over the stage today to hyperactive entrepreneur Mark Cuban, who just weighed in on what Yahoo should do. Literally, his post yesterday on his Blog Maverick site is titled “What Yahoo Should Do,” and he lays waste to a lot of the conventional wisdom about the Internet portal’s

Quoted: Google abandoned [its deal with Yahoo] not because pressing ahead with it “risked” a protracted legal battle, but because it guaranteed one. I wrote that on Nov. 6, following the official dissolution of Google’s (GOOG) proposed advertising partnership with Yahoo (YHOO). Turns out the guarantee to which I referred was an ironclad one.

Quoted: Carl Icahn bought up another 6.8 million shares of Yahoo earlier this week, bringing his total holdings to 75.6 million shares (just shy of 5 percent). He paid just under $10 a share, or about a third of what he paid last May when he started building the bulk of his position. Of course, now he controls three seats on Yahoo’s board, including the one

Quoted: Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang sent the email below to all Yahoo’ers at 2:20 pm PST, after earnings were announced. Besides being all lowercase, as usual, he lets everyone know that the company will be letting 10% of employees go to help save $400 million in annual costs. Jerry Yang, of course, will not be among the layoffs. The full email: From: Jerry Yang [mailto:jerry@yahoo-inc.com]

Quoted: I guess the upside is that a stock can’t fall below zero, so there’s an end in sight to the ongoing destruction of jobs and shareholder wealth at Yahoo. The stock closed at $13.76 today, down another 5.6%. And this isn’t just part of the market’s overall meltdown - the Nasdaq fell just 0.8% today, and Google, Yahoo’s main direct competitor, was down

Quoted: Congress is finally understanding the reality of the Yahoo-Google search deal, and what it means for the state of search competition in general. It’s not about price fixing advertising rates, it’s about neutering the second place market participant. As I wrote on September 27, the current deal between Yahoo and Google will inevitably lead to the decline

Lower than the low just prior to the first MS announcement.

Quoted: Yahoo’s already crushed stock price has fallen further today - its down 8.36% since this morning, bringing it to a nearly five year low of $17.75. Yahoo has been as high as $34 in the last year (thanks to that Microsoft takeover bid), which means nearly $23 billion has been taken out of shareholder pockets in that period.

Quoted: I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: Location, location, location. As computing continues to go mobile it’s an increasingly important feature for many web services. Knowing that, Yahoo has built a developer platform around location called Fire Eagle. Today, Yahoo is officially letting it spread it wings to the public. The service began closed alpha