The coolest Yahoo rap you’ve ever heard

Earnings season can get a bit tedious for reporters, who end up staying late (at least on the east coast!) to field after-the-closing-bell conference calls that run for about an hour.

So we take the laughs where we can get them! Last week’s earnings amusement came courtesy of Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, who joked about the lame hold music before the call (she didn’t realize her mic was live).

Don’t worry, Marissa: Your knight in shining armor is here! It’s — who else? — Snow, the rapper whose claim to fame is the 1992 one-hit wonder “Informer.”

According to the New York Post, music licensing company Jingle Punks (creators of music for NBC show“The Voice”) commissioned the bizarre project.

Listen above to the song (which isn’t really rap, I guess) and sing along to the chorus, which has wormed its way into my brain on loop: “You’re on hold / Hold at Yahoo / Gimme a second / While I patch you through.” - Julianne

The Internet has spoken: It wants Marissa Mayer to save Flickr →

Will Breaking Bad destroy Yahoo?

Today, Marissa Mayer tweeted that she’s excited about her new no-one-saw-it-coming gig as Yahoo’s latest CEO. Here’s her previous tweet.

NO, Marissa, it can’t. Just remember: When you get hooked on a viewing marathon and start playing hooky, you were warned. -Stacy

Our complete coverage of Yahoo’s shareholder meeting today

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz. 

(Seriously. Even AllThingsD couldn’t wring anything out of it and went with the headline “No News is No News.”) 

Most-used stolen Yahoo password was 123456

I mean, seriously now. That’s the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage.

According to Anders Nilsson, security expert and chief technology officer of Scandinavian security company Eurosecure, 1,666 of the 450,000 stolen Yahoo passwords were “password,” and 780 used the word “password” in their password. ”Welcome” appeared in 534 passwords.

There are lots more fun details about how poorly we choose passwords for ourselves in Nilsson’s excellent analysis, which can be found here.

Update: The human race is slightly less stupid than CNNMoney initially believed. I first read Nilsson’s figures as 38% of people used “password” as their password, when it was actually 0.38%. As always, I’m the stupid one. -David

Alma mater of Yahoo’s interim CEO wants you to know he’s not a liar

Last week, I received an unsolicited email from Hulu saying that its CEO Jason Kilar isn’t interested in taking the helm at Yahoo — which probably clears the way for interim Yahoo CEO Ross Levinsohn to drop “interim” from his title.

This week, it’s an out-of-the-blue note from American University. Folks there would like you to know that if Levinsohn does become CEO, there will be no resume-embellishing scandal a la the ousted Scott Thompson:

Dear Julianne,

We here at American University have been watching your coverage of Yahoo and AU alumnus Ross Levinsohn’s role as interim CEO. American University is proud that Ross Levinsohn graduated from our university with a bachelor’s degree in Communication in 1985.

Kindest regards,

Rick Todd

Public Relations Manager

School of Communication

American University

Moments like this are why God gave us Twitter

Yahoo “updates” CEO’s “error” riddled bio

Yahoo just did some quick sanitizing on the “inadvertent error” Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson made in his bio — the bit where he claimed a computer science degree he didn’t have. The oopsie sentence is now gone from his official bio, but still viewable through the magic of Google Cache.    

 I’m declaring it: Yammer will never hire another former Yahoo employee who doesn’t leave in the next 60 days. Who will join me? #stopyahoo 

— Yammer CEO David Sacks throws down on Twitter. He later revised the ban to cover only “lawyers and senior executives.”   

 These actions result from a process I initiated about six months ago in a special meeting of the independent directors in which we analyzed the reasons why Yahoo! was not meeting either our own expectations or those of our shareholders. 

— Yahoo board chairman Roy Bostock, announcing his own departure and that of three other directors. The four are, ahem, “volunteer[ing] not to stand for re-election” at the shareholder meeting in the spring.