Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz gestures during her appearance at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco
Yahoo Chief Executive Carol Bartz gestures during her appearance at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, California November 16, 2010. REUTERS

Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Carol Bartz on Tuesday said she had been fired over the phone by Chairman Roy Bostock, a source familiar with the matter quoted an internal company email as saying.

A second source said that Bartz had been dismissed by the board and replaced, on an interim basis, by Chief Financial Officer Tim Morse.

That followed a report by tech blog AllThingsD, which cited company sources.

Yahoo representatives were not immediately available for comment.

(Editing by Carol Bishopric)