Yahoo has named Marissa Mayer, one of Google's top executives, as its new President and CEO, making her the third chief executive in a year that the struggling internet company has brought on board to turn the its fortunes.
Yahoo!'s new Chief Executive Marissa Mayer will get a compensation package of more than $59 million over the next several years.
Mayer, a former high-profile Google executive, was brought in as Yahoo's CEO in 2012 to architect a turnaround that has largely failed to materialise
The net worth of struggling Internet giant Yahoo Inc's CEO Marissa Mayer is estimated to be $310 million, according to Wealth-X, a global wealth intelligence and prospecting company.
In late 1998, when Marissa Mayer first heard about a small outfit called Google, she hardly batted an eye. The Stanford University graduate student was encouraged by her advisor to check out the research of two guys on the computer science building's fourth floor who were developing ways to analyze the World Wide Web.
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Goldman brings more than 30 years of experience in financial, operational and business management.
Yahoo! CEO had enough reason to ban work-from-home, but she could have communicated it better than the all-or-nothing email.
We're working on various methods in terms of how we can increase our video views, and watching, says Mayer.
These women may not have founded the current-day tech giants but they surely have made them successful.
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The company has almost 900 jobs open, representing nearly 8 percent of its workforce.
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Yahoo Inc's first quarter revenue fell short of Wall Street targets, as the Internet company continued to feel the effects of declining traffic to its Web properties and of falling display advertising sales.
The trend of employees working from home is here to stay in India despite companies like Yahoo! banning the practice, experts have said.
The decision by new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer to ban work from home plans has set off a debate as to whether this was a wrong decision or a necessary evil.
These women may not have founded the current-day tech giants but they surely have helped to make these firms successful.
The acquisition is expected to increase Yahoo's audience by 50 per cent.
Bansals of e-commerce company Flipkart and Aditya Ghosh of low-cost carrier Indigo have made into Fortune's young achievers list for their initiatives in creating job opportunities.
In a regulatory filing with the Securities Exchange Commission of the US on Monday, the company said that Levinsohn will leave the company effective July 31, 2012.
She warned investors on Monday that fixing Yahoo was a long-term project.
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The company's revenue fell by one per cent to $1.20 billion in the July-September quarter of 2012.
The company's revenue stood at $1.08 billion in the second quarter of 2012, as against $1.07 billion in the year ago period. In the second quarter of 2011 the struggling Internet company had reported net income of $238.5 million.
The digital media has received significant contributions from women.
Mayer stressed on the transformation of the firm from a technology company to a media, news, entertainment and advertising platform utilising products focusing on search, communications, digital and videos.
Meg Whitman is the wealthiest women in the technology sector.
With acquisitions the internet giant is trying to increase its presence in smartphones and tablets.
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Their move follows an activist campaign by hedge fund Starboard Value LP, which is pushing Yahoo to consider a deal with AOL and unlock Yahoo's valuable stakes in Asian Web companies.
Yahoo Inc struck a deal with Firefox maker Mozilla Corp to replace Google Inc as the default search engine on the Firefox Web browser in the United States, a move that Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer said will help boost its flagging search market share.
The company may also proceed with a plan to spin off more than $30 billion in shares of Alibaba
The deal will end months of uncertainty about Yahoo's future.
The richest self-made woman in America is Diane Hendricks, the owner of ABC Supply.
Yahoo Inc plans to spin off its 15 percent stake in China's Alibaba Group Holding Ltd, responding to pressure to hand over to shareholders its prized e-commerce investment valued at roughly $40 billion.
Women have been and continue to be an integral part of Tata Global Beverages' business, across the world, says Cyrus Mistry.
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New York Stock Exchange President 38-year-old Tom Farley (ranked 7) and Twitter co-founder and CEO 37-year-old Jack Dorsey.
Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has cancelled his visit to WEF annual meeting after a deadly Taliban attack in his country.
The annual talk-fest of rich and powerful from across the world in snow-laden Alpine resort town of Davos will be attended by nearly 40 heads of government among more than 2,500 global leaders from over 100 countries.
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