“Yahoo Inc picked Google Inc’s Marissa Mayer to become its new CEO, turning to an engineer with established Silicon Valley credentials to turn around the struggling former Internet powerhouse,” Alexei Oreskovic and Peter Lauria report for Reuters.
“Mayer, who edged out front-runner and acting Chief Executive Ross Levinsohn, starts Tuesday as Yahoo’s third CEO in a year,” Oreskovic and Lauria report. “She hopes to stem losses to Google and Facebook Inc – which her high-profile predecessors failed to do.”
Oreskovic and Lauria report, “Her hiring signaled the Internet company is likely to renew its focus on Web technology and products rather than beefing up online content… Mayer, 37, will assume her role on Tuesday, when the company is scheduled to report its quarterly financial results.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Good luck, Marissa. You’re gonna need it.
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Kinda a shame cos she dead cute ( I will burn in hell for that). Sounds like the one of the smartest around Google. Hard to say whether Yahoo will be her Waterloo or Nirvana but given recent history I will say the former.
I gotta tell ya,
I’d tap that.
Yaw Hooters!
Well, yes, Yahoo’s certainly Looking better already!….
Amazing how many lives that company has had…
I second that! She is quite the hottie 😜
Is that a big red ball you’re sitting on with fsck-me pumps, or are you just glad to see me? (not tooo subtle there Marissa)
Guys Guys… keep your “equipment” steady in your pants please! 🙂
Marissa may very well be Google’s version of Nokia’s Mr. Elop – a sleeper agent from Google set out to suck the life out of Yahoo.
my 2 cents…
Either that, or she’s decided that it’s finally time to earn an honest penny from a less shady employer…
I think that Marissa is actually a Google-bot (ok, Android) designed to infiltrate and neutralise Yahoo from within.
Yahoo has been marginalized for years now.
Make that a ‘Fem-bot’.
A hot, built like a ‘brick outdoor facility’, ‘making me think of naughty thoughts’, newly appointed CEO of Yahoo.
It’s too bad she doesn’t seem to have the CEO skillz, other than her ‘gams’. Her underlings (unless they’re gay) will be too distracted by her ‘femininity’. She’ll be gone in 6 – 8 months.
I know it sounds sexist (ask me if I care), but the Yahoo board should pay more attention to the spreadsheets instead of being distracted by what’s spreading the sheets.
http://broadblogs.com/2012/03/26/women-make-men-dumber/
I’m confident that Ms. Mayer is perfectly capable of leading ‘Yahoo!’ out of the ditch that it’s currently in *snicker* and on to greater and more glorious things.
Let’s ‘wait and see’ what those ‘things’ may be.
Good luck, Ms. Hottie.
Wow, she’s gorgeous 🙂
Looks better than Tim Cook and she is an engineer. If she can save Yahoo, she will prove for certain her managerial skills. Only downside I can see is her being on the Wal-Mart Board.
Most excellent Gams.
So who did the maths for that article? According to other sources she will be the 5th CEO in 12 months. http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2012-07-16/marissa-mayer-yahoo-ceo/56256682/1
if Marissa Mayer takes a singular focus to beat google in search, google will shoot itself in the foot by working on some crazy glasses.
Why an engineer for CEO? Is the board trying to hack at symptomatic platform problems with a CEO choice instead of choosing a leader who can deliver the platform, the business model and sell the vision.
Marissa is a graduate of the high school my wife and eldest son went to. We’re proud of her accomplishments and wish her well.
Whatever Marissa’s selling, I’m buying.
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I’d pump Marissa like a rabbit. But she’s pregnant, so I’d say she’d be the world’s hottest MILF after the frog drops.
She is certainly one of the most beautiful geeks I have ever seen. If I had not already made Yahoo my default search engine, she would single-handedly convinced me. It’s no more sexist to see obvious beauty when it’s right there in front of you, then it is racist to say Mexicans love tortillas.
But my grandfather used to tell me, “Pretty is as pretty does”, trying to teach me that no matter how much of a cute kid you are, and how much people say, “Look how precious!”, actions can make your beauty vanish.
She is obviously beautiful, and doubtless she is intelligent. Let’s wait and see if Ms. Mayer has as much true virtue as she has beauty.
Marissa can do anything she wants, as long as she doesn’t laugh.
God’s little reminder that nobody’s perfect.
Hope she didn’t marry a man who makes her laugh or she’s not long for this world.
I’d rather listen to a bag of nails and shards of glass dumped in a food processor.
CEO centerfolds…. Playboys next feature
Why Yahoo? She is smart, no nix that, she is REALLY smart, and well… nice on the eyes. She is a catch. Yahoo? Good luck to her.
Marissa will be the helmsman on the Titanic Yahoo or…
The next Steve Jobs.
The pressure will be monumental.
At least she is tech and not a MBA, might be first smart move for Yahoo in a while. Yahoo needs all the technical help they can get.
about hiring more engineers for CEO’s than MBA’s…was not Herry Yang a techie? If he was, he sure did not turn Yahoo into a success while being boss. Not saying an MBA have a good score card either I.e. RIM twosome cousome.
I hope she does well too. She’s obviously smart, and I think it would be great if she could make a difference at Yahoo too.
She must have some good ideas, so let’s see what happens.
Go Marissa!
She had the sense to leave Google, so at least that bodes well for her.
Maybe she was frustrated that Google’s core service, its search engine, has turned to complete shit and she’s gone to Yahoo with the intent of making it as good as Google search used to be in its prime. That’s what I’d like to believe, anyway.
Any search engine can be better, shop putting ad sponsor’s first when doing a search.
Marissa is a Trojan Horse. Bye Bye Yahoo.