Yahoo CEO Terry Semel, who survived corporate hell as head of Warner Brothers, is famously low-pulse. But the press commentary about Yahoo's eclipse by Google, and speculation about his own retirement, have finally raised the internet media mogul's hackles. From Semel's all-hands webcast to staff:

At the next all-hands. Just as a reminder. I'm sorry I didn't do it today. I'm gonna put up there all of the press reports on how Yahoo! was going out of business 5 years ago. And of how we were gonna be swallowed up by AOL, owned by Time-Warner, and by Microsoft, and by everybody else. And Yahoo! looked like it had a dim future. Well those headlines, of course, were used to wrap a lot of fish in a lot of people's houses, as the expression goes. And they were all full of shit, and they had no idea what we had planned for them. And they do not now as well! So, we could read about how I'm gonna join some retirement home. And we could read about how the company doesn't have a vision. And we could read about how we can't do this and we can't do that. Trust me, they will be as full of shit this time as they were last time." [Transcribed by Jonathan Strauss]

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