New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer recently made a splash when she declared that all food in the company's cafeterias will be free for employees. That's just how it was at Google, Mayer's former employer.
How is new CEO Marissa Mayer going to revitalize Yahoo?
Former Google executive Marissa Mayer has taken over as CEO of Yahoo! CNN's Zoraida Sambolin has this profile.
This week's announcement that Yahoo is hiring away Google executive Marissa Mayer as its latest CEO has been met by both Wall Street and the tech industry with yawns or worse.
This week, 37-year-old Marissa Mayer became CEO of Yahoo, an internet provider with many problems, although an audience isn't one of them -- the company claims more than half a billion people currently access its products a month, and Mayer told the New York Times she considers it "one of the best brands on the internet."
CNN's Dan Simon reports on the new CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer, and the challenge that she faces.
Depending who you ask, Yahoo's decision to hire Marissa Mayer several months into her pregnancy is either a boon to all working mothers or a misstep for the ailing tech company.
In the wake of Google alum Marissa Mayer's surprise hiring as CEO, variations of the same question are popping up again and again:
Marissa Mayer, who was Google's first female engineer and its 20th employee when she joined that company in 1999, has been named CEO of Yahoo.
Google's first female engineer, Marissa Mayer, has made a career out of bucking expectations -- and she did so once again on Monday by announcing she will leave Google to be the new CEO of Yahoo, the struggling company that once was Google's main competitor.
Marissa Mayer joined Google at the age of 24, and now she is the VP of Local, Maps and Localization Services.
Start-ups are fighting a war for talent in Silicon Valley, and the companies that actively welcome men and women are going to win it. Smart companies don't recruit "brogrammers."
Google is throwing significant muscle into its new focus on local businesses: It has acquired reviews behemoth Zagat for an undisclosed sum, the company said Thursday.
Google famously gives its engineers "20% time," allowing them one day a week to work on side projects that interest them. That arrangement launched one of the most critical online tools in the Japanese relief effort: Google's Person Finder, which allows people to search for and post information about missing loved ones.
The most notable women in technology probably don't spend all day thinking about hairstyles and dinner parties. But according to a bright pink infographic making its way around the web, you can tell a lot about some of the world's most tech-savvy women based on their hairdos and extracurriculars.
After weeks of negotiations about a potential takeover, Groupon appears to have walked away from would-be suitor Google.
Google has just launched Boost, a location-based ad product for local businesses.
One of the Internet's most iconic images -- Google's search screen -- is being overhauled.
Tired of waiting the tenths of a second it takes to get Google search results?
Google announces a new search feature that delivers you results without ever pressing the search button.
Google's online filing cabinet for medical records opened to the
public Monday, giving users instant electronic access to their health
histories and worrying a privacy advocate
Google Inc. will begin storing the medical records of a few thousand people as it tests a long-awaited health service that's likely to raise more concerns about the volume of sensitive information entrusted to the Internet search leader.
Sure, Googlers love their free ski trips and all that. But the real test of whether a company is great to work for is what it's like when its employees are, you know, working. And a good way to fin...
Barely out of the shadows of 2000's dot-com downturn, Internet mania is back.
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In early October, at Fortune's annual Most Powerful Women Summit, blog queen Arianna Huffington, editor of the Huffington Post, led a panel called Understanding the Internet's Future, with Morgan S...
What does Google have to do with failure? Leading a panel called Understanding the Internet's Future at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit in early October, Arianna Huffington flogged her new book, On Becoming Fearless, and tossed out an intriguing fact about Google's culture of fearlessness: "Whatever products Google is developing, they are incorporating a 60 to 70 percent failure rate," the Huffington Post founder/editor noted to Google VP Marissa Mayer, who shared the stage with Morgan Stanley Internet analyst Mary Meeker and Motorola chief technology officer Padmasree Warrior.
Google has expressed concerns about competition from Microsoft in the Web search business in recent talks with the Justice Department and the European Commission, according to a published report.
He did his best work after dark, when the world was still and he could blow off steam on the office pipe organ. Around midnight Thomas Edison and his team would break for pie, ham, beer, and group ...
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