yahoo! has been without apparent direction, trying to decide whether to sell assets, go private or allow itself to be sold. earlier, richard quest asked maggie lake what we know about the new man in charge. we don t know a whole lot about him. he s well respected, comes from paypal. he s a person with a payment background, not the name you d expect for a company that needs something dramatic. that s the problem, richard, this whole announcement today, it was much more exciting to see carl bartz get fired than it was to see this guy get hireded. hardly a ringing endorsement. that may have to do with the sheer depth of investors despair. yahoo! has gone from being a star of the search world to something of an extra. it peaked in 2006 when it was the number two search engine at
to 14 years in prison for the murder of a black teenage, stevon moore, at least two decades ago. the judge said they committed a terrible and evil crime because of racial hatred. they were convicted with new forensic evidence that was not available back then. for the first time in more than 50 years, a british foreign secretary is in myanmar. william hague is meeting with government officials bringing a message of reform and offering britain s help. he s also meeting with pro-democracy leader aung san suu kyi. her party has been re-establi re-established and will be part of elections in april. those are the top stories from cnn. world business today starts right now. good morning from cnn london. i m charles hodson. and good afternoon from cnn hong kong, i m andrew stevens. you re watching world business today. our top stories this thursday, january 5th european investors are on edge as greece sounds the alarm and france faces a big test on the bond markets. a