San Francisco  - Yahoo is to name Carol Bartz, the former chief executive of software company Autodesk, as its new CEO, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.

The report comes after a two-month search for a replacement for company founder Jerry Yang, who was widely blamed for botching merger talks with Microsoft that would have proved highly lucrative to many shareholders.

While Bartz, 60, does not have wide experience running a consumer-facing technology company, she does sit on the boards of major tech firms like Cisco and Intel. She served as chief executive of Autodesk from 1992 to 2006 and remains the company's executive chairman. (dpa)