Rumors of a Yahoo shakeup proved true, and much broader than just company president Sue Decker's pal, Hilary Schneider, gaining at the expense of another executive's job again. Greg Coleman had been the executive in charge of global sales, which included the search and display ad business.

Coleman was also the guy who gave Wenda Harris Millard a not-so-fond farewell in June 2007. "The industry has shifted and requires a different set of skills to take the business forward," Coleman said of Millard at the time.

Now it's Coleman who's being shoved out the door, as more changes take place at Yahoo. Rafat Ali at PaidContent managed to score a copy of the internal Yahoo email about the shuffling of Yahoo's sales deck.

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