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Can Marissa Mayer Save Yahoo?
Can Marissa Mayer pull of what is probably the toughest job in Silicon Valley? The CEO's plan to transform a Web icon into a mobile media company.
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Foursquare deal could be a goldmine for Yahoo
Big data is the latest super-hot tech trend, and Yahoo wants a piece of the pie.
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Yahoo will start releasing transparency reports, too
Transparency reporting is getting trendy, guys. Yahoo announced today that it will release a transparency report for data requests from governments around the world — and we’re glad it is.
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China frees dissident convicted on Yahoo! evidence
Chinese authorities have released from jail dissident poet Shi Tao who was convicted based on information provided by US Internet giant Yahoo!, a rights group said Sunday.
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Tech Titan just bought the most expensive house in San Francisco history
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and her husband just bought the most expensive house in San Francisco history.
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Marissa Mayer: Make few decisions, but make them perfectly
In engineering the company’s big turnaround, stock price recovery, and product revitalization, Mayer said the challenges she’s faced have been more exhilarating than exhausting, and she’s still excited for Yahoo’s future.
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Yahoo's stock tops $30 for 1st time in 5 ½ years
Yahoo's stock touches $30 for 1st time since company was fending off Microsoft takeover bid
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Marissa Mayer tops Fortune's 40 under 40 list
Tech leaders dominate the finance magazine's 40 under 40 scoreboard, and the Yahoo CEO's placement on the 2013 edition is a milestone for the annual list.
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Yahoo proves it has a reckless and moronic attitude to email security
The new owners of recycled Yahoo email accounts are receiving private emails, containing personal information, not intended for them. None of this would have happened if Yahoo hadn't initiated the reckless, harebrained scheme in the first place.
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Serious Yahoo bug discovered. Researchers rewarded with $12.50 voucher to buy corporate T-shirt
Yahoo, it seems, just can’t do anything right when it comes to winning friends in the security industry. First, they came up with a bonkers scheme for recycling old email addresses – not apparently realizing that the danger of identity theft to which it was exposing the original account holders.
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Yahoo CEO Mayer has advertisers' attention, but can she get their dollars?
Three weeks ago, Yahoo Inc Chief Executive Marissa Mayer strode into a Manhattan hotel and was greeted like a rock star by hundreds of advertising executives who snapped pictures as she sat down for an interview with journalist Charlie Rose.
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Yahoo to make SSL encryption the default for Webmail users. Finally.
Beginning Jan. 8, Yahoo will enable encryption by default for users logging into its Web-based mail service, the company has told The Washington Post.
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I Visited Alibaba, The $100 Billion Chinese Internet Company Where 24,000 People Are Making Marissa Mayer Look Good
Marissa Mayer became the CEO of Yahoo on July 16, 2012. Since then, the stock has exploded from ~$16 to over $35. But while Mayer has done a remarkable job improving the working culture at Yahoo, hiring mobile developers and redesigning the company's wide array of products, she is not the only reason for Yahoo's stock turnaround.
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Yahoo buys SkyPhrase to better understand natural language
Yahoo has acquired SkyPhrase, a natural language processing startup, in a move that could improve Yahoo’s ability to make sense of user queries and commands across any number of Yahoo products. Terms of the deal, which was announced Monday, were not disclosed. SkyPhrase’s team has joined Yahoo’s Labs business unit in New York City, a Yahoo spokeswoman said.
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More Americans searched Yahoo for Miley Cyrus than Obamacare
Miley Cyrus was officially the most searched term overall on Yahoo in 2013, beating out more serious issues like the hotly debated Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. In related news, the most popular question starting with "What" happened to be "What is twerking?"
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Is Marissa Mayer Helping Yahoo—or Hurting the Struggling Tech Giant?
As one of Google’s highest-ranking women, Marissa Mayer became a Silicon Valley superstar, but inside the search giant her dazzle sometimes wore thin, with colleagues rebelling against her imperious style. In the wake of Mayer’s jump to run the struggling Yahoo, Bethany McLean asks whether she will be its savior or its next big problem. A year and a half in, the results are mixed.
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Marissa Mayer's Next Big Acquisition Could Be Imgur, The Photo-Sharing Site Reddit Loves
This fall, Yahoo began serious talks to buy photo-sharing site Imgur, a source with first-hand knowledge of those discussions tells us. Since she joined Yahoo in July 2012, CEO Marissa Mayer has acquired dozens of startups. Most of these acquisitions have been acqui-hires.
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Trouble At Yahoo: Partial Webmail Outage Hits Day Two
Normally a report of a web services outage goes like this: web service goes down, reporter writes post, hits publish, web service comes right back up. But that doesn’t appear to be the case for Yahoo Mail, which has been down for some users for well over 24 hours, and in some cases nearly two days, if the reports on Twitter and those rolling into our tips inbox are to be believed.
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Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer ‘Very Sorry’ for the Week-long Outage
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wrote a blog on Tumblr saying how “very sorry” she is for the inconvenience and frustration the Yahoo outage caused to its users. She also explained the cause of the very long “scheduled maintenance.”
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The Streaming Media Way Back Machine – My Strategy for Broadcast.com from 1999
Found this as I was cleaning up some backups from almost 15 years ago. THought it would be interesting to let people see what my goals were for our merger with Yahoo back then.
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