Arun Sarin, the former CEO of telecom Vodafone (NYSE: VOD), has emerged as the latest name being considered to replace Jerry Yang as Yahoo’s chief, WSJ reports, citing unidentified sources.  Sarin’s name as a contender feels like a trial balloon. The big test will be how investors greet the news…

A final interview in the FT with Arun Sarin, who stepped down on Monday as Vodafone’s CEO. The verdict? After five tough years helming the global carrier where at one point he was seen as “arrogant, prickly and out of touch”, Sarin has emerged as the “bloodied victor,” leaving behind…

So was it all worth it? Vodafone’s departing CEO Arun Sarin could be leaving with as much as £25 million ($50) million in a final payout, reports the Guardian. During his sometimes-tumultuous five-year tenure at the global telecoms group, Sarin accumulated 28.5 million shares and options, which he has not…

Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) chief Arun Sarin is exiting on a high note. The global telecom firm reported full-year profits of £6.66 billion ($13.2 billion), compared with a loss of £5.43 billion ($10.8 billion) a year earlier. Revenues rose 14.1 percent to £35.3 billion ($69.9 billion), boosted in part by emerging…

Arun Sarin, who defined Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) as the big global telecom conglomerate in his five years as CEO, is going to step down in July and will be replaced by Vittorio Colao, who is presently Sarin’s number two and has responsibility for the company’s European operations, reports Telegraph. The…

Nobody’s ever accused Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) CEO Arun Sarin of being a shrinking violet. In an interview with Businessweek, Sarin is typically forthright, admitting that the global telecoms company had vastly overpaid for its 3G license in Germany in 2001—which Sarin now believes would have gone for a tenth of…

In this morning’s keynote, Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) CEO Arun Sarin said he has the ability to see trends worldwide in the mobile industry because Vodafone covers 30 countries and 250 million customers, from America, through its ownership position in Verizon (NYSE: VZ), to Britain, Romania and Turkey. He said the…

Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) CEO Arun Sarin, in his keynote to open Mobile World Congress, called for consolidation of handset operating systems. “There is no way that a group of developers out there developing cool applications can do it on 30 different operating systems. We have to narrow the range of…