After a painful descent, things may finally be looking up for long-suffering Yahoo Inc. Coming off its best quarterly performance since hiring Carol Bartz as its chief executive a year ago, Yahoo promised late Tuesday to deliver even more meaningful progress this year. For starters, the ...

By Brian Womack [Bloomberg] -- Carol Bartz gives herself a B-minus in her first year as chief executive officer of Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO), saying she could have moved faster to reorganize the company and strike a Web-search agreement with Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) "It was a little tougher internally than I think I had anticipated," Bartz, 61, said in an interview at ...

Carol Bartz spent much of her first year as Yahoo Inc.'s chief executive rallying the troops and clearing the decks, often sounding like a salty drill sergeant as she vowed to whip the downtrodden Internet company back into shape. For all the tough ...