在周三宣布推迟董事会候选人提名截止日期之后，Yahoo CEO 杨致远与董事会主席 Roy Bostock 致信雅虎员工。杨致远与 Roy Bostock 在信中解释了 Yahoo 董事会做出这一决定的原因，并要求员工不要听信传言，继续努力工作：

Board Continues to Explore Alternatives to Maximize Value

SUNNYVALE, Calif., Mar 05, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) - Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today announced that it has amended the Company's bylaws to extend the deadline for nominating directors to Yahoo!'s board from March 14th to 10 days following the public announcement of the date for Yahoo!'s 2008 annual meeting of stockholders. As the Company has not yet announced the date of this year's annual meeting, the amendment will give stockholders who want to nominate one or more directors, including Microsoft Corporation, more time to do so. The amendment does not preclude any party from nominating one or more directors at any time prior to the new deadline.

Yahoo!'s board of directors remains committed to pursuing initiatives that maximize value for Yahoo!'s stockholders. To the extent that the extension of the nomination deadline has the effect of postponing the nomination of one or more directors by any party, it will allow Yahoo!'s board to continue to explore all of its strategic alternatives for maximizing value for stockholders without the distraction of a proxy contest.

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我们想把我们于今天早上宣布的最新信息告诉你们。雅虎董事会决定将原定于3月14日的董事会候选人提名截止日期推迟，新的截止期限为公布2008年年度股东大会召开日期后的第10天。我们尚未公布今年年度股东会议的召开日期。

我们为什么要这样做？

考虑到当前的形势，这一决定推后了即将到来的截止日期。当然，微软可以提出他们的候选董事，但我们的目标是使雅虎董事会能够继续在没有代理权争夺战分心的情况下评估各种战略方案，并努力使公司和股东的价值最大化。此举也可以使你们更加专心地落实我们的商业战略，并创造价值。

自上次向你们通报更新信息以来，我们董事会和管理层一直在团结一致地寻找各种为股东创造价值的选择方案。我们相信，我们会在明确选择方面取得进展。当然，通过这一过程，管理层和董事会都与股东们进行了交流，并倾听了股东们的想法。这种交流为我们提供了有益的反馈信息。

让我们明确一件事情：我们拥有一家伟大的公司，一家拥有真正独特财富的公司。公司的财富包括我们的全球品牌、全球各地的大量用户、最近在广告平台方面的大量投资、未来的发展前景以及我们的核心商业战略所带来的强劲的发展动力。所以，毫无疑问，我们的发展形势引起了从国家媒体到博客的高度关注。

我们希望你们能够一如既往地将听到的传言和猜测放在脑后。我们不能因外界报道而分心，并影响到我们的出色工作－－改善我们的用户、广告客户、出版商和开发人员的体验，并进一步加强我们在在线市场的领导地位。

我们要再次对你们所有人表示感谢，感谢你们一直以来的努力工作以及为雅虎做出的贡献。我们会继续向你们通报最新情况。