Fred Business News  - Yahoo Inc. increased two top executives' bonuses last year amid a deepening slump that set the stage for Microsoft Corp.'s unsolicited bid for the struggling Internet pioneer.

The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based company paid its president, Susan Decker, a $1.1 million bonus in 2007, according to documents filed Friday with the Securities and Exchange Commission. That represented a 29% increase from the $850,000 bonus she received in 2006, when she was still Yahoo's chief financial officer.

Yahoo promoted Decker in June last year when co-founder ...   more »