“Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer is building a mystery,” Kaja Whitehouse reports for The New York Post.
“Her neighbors in Palo Alto, Calif., were puzzled Tuesday after a local paper identified her as the buyer of the city’s oldest funeral home, the 114-year-old Roller & Hapgood & Tinney,” Whitehouse reports. “The funeral parlor is just down the street from Mayer’s current home, valued at $5.2 million.”
“Mayer is buying the 1.16-acre site at 980 Middlefield Road, according to the Palo Alto Weekly, which cited sources inside the funeral home,” Whitehouse reports. “The property is valued at around $850,000, including its parking lot, according to the county assessor’s office.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
Just another excuse to post that red ball photo.
But admittedly, it is a nice picture of her that wouldn’t work with most other CEO’s! 😉
Someone needs to Photoshop Ballmer on a ball.
He would look hot in a red Man Thong!!!
My eyes are burning now just THINKING about that image.
its obvious what she is doing since she has money to burn. She rents the lot out so her friends can park there and walk to her home. well why not buy the place? 1. she won’t lose her favorite parking spot for her guests to another owner. 2. now that she own the place, not only can her guests still park there but now the parties can take place in the building instead of people trampling all over her private space
Obviously it is going to be used for her Halloween Extravaganza Party.
Oh? You didn’t get an invite? How embarrassing.
not embarrassing to me. I don’t know her, unlike you. Stick your nose up her ass a little farther and maybe you’ll get lucky for xmas time
Closet necrophiliac?
Ballmer in ‘Romper Room’, I can see it now…
Ballmer buying a Funeral Home makes more sense as he looks like Uncle Fester back in the Day.
Now that’s funny! And accurate …
Excellent idea! He could turn it into a Bed & Breakfast, and get all dressed up to check in guests. Perfect retirement job.
Nerdvana. Any excuse to post it is welcome.
Future plans for Yahoo! Maybe!?!
Maybe they are going to finally put Yahoo Search out of its misery and have a proper funeral for it?
Looking for new investors — an effort to bring in otherwise dead money.
I’ve never seen you looking so lovely as you did tonight,
I’ve never seen you shine so bright, Lady In Red.
She’s a smart business leader. It is incredibly offensive to objectify her in the way that she is repeatedly portrayed on this site, and it speaks to the maturity levels and the infrequency of sexual activity of the editors of MDN that this picture is used every time there is a Yahoo headline in the news. Sad.
…….If only that was one of my balls……..
😜
Yeah, she’d own them, and you’d be her little b!tch!
If that were one of your balls I would suggest you see a doctor. Besides, last I checked, it’s not so comfortable to have someone sitting on your balls.
Why is it offensive to look good? Are you saying that you don’t think women can be both smart and good looking? Sad.
I dunno if it is sexual or immature. I think that photo is rather artistic.
Red dress/Red balloon ball. Kind of a 60’s colorful feel with all the retro items in the background.
It’s a cool photo.
OK, I’ll bite as well.
It is a two-way street, to a certain extent. Marissa Meyer is one of the top-tier CEOs out there. There is nothing she needs to prove, in terms of professional recognition. She can do whatever she pleases. It was most certainly her own decision to do a photo like this (feminine, elegant, stylish, sexy; none of the usual epithets related to power and skill).
While many can easily say that the photo objectifies her and underscores physical appearance and sex appeal instead of whatever other, non-appearance attributes one would expect projected by a photo of a CEO, none of these attributes can take away from the fact that she is one of the most powerful, and certainly most well-known CEOs in America.
“Lighten up Francis”. If your not mature enough to handle the immaturity occasioanlly found on these hollowed pages, move along. Your just being immature.
Wait, what?
Yo – Predrag, BOOM!
Now, now, have a sense of humor. Life is too short.
Paying $850K for a parking lot, that’s more than most people pay for houses (but less than she paid for Tumblr).
She bought the whole parlor not just the parking lot.
Vampire illuminate. Isn’t it obvious?
Perhaps this is another way to manage layoffs.
Next up:
– Order a few thousand pine boxes.
– Buy a graveyard for burying them.
– Order exotic chemicals for raising the dead.
– Hire new staff for no wages at all! Smart lady.
I think she got a very good deal.. that “parking lot” could be worth millions in a few years.
Not a prayer that this story relates to Macs or iOS devices or other Apple news.
Obviously MDN saw an opportunity and they shamelessly took it! Too funny.
She’s buying a 114 year old funeral parlor because… hit it… (to Addams Family theme song)
She’s creepy and she’s kooky,
Mysterious and spooky,
She’s all together ooky,
The Mayer Family.
Her house is a funeral parlor
Where people come they holler
She’s always in your dream
The Mayer Family.
(Neat)
(Sweet)
(Petite)
So get a witches shawl on
A broomstick you can crawl on
We’re gonna pay a call on
The Mayer Family.
Buying a funeral home, for… A Big Halloween Party Bash!
Then she’ll sell it again. 😉
I hear she’s been dying to get her hands on that property for a long time.
bury the opposition ?
Perhaps she has a drastic solution in mind for all those “underperforming” Yahoo employees.
That picture is just so nice 🙂