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Yahoo CEO Ignores Critics, Talks Mobile
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is no stranger to headlines. Buzz around Yahoo laying off hundreds, shutting down its online magazines and Mayer’s dispute with investors left attendees of yesterday’s developer conference wondering what the company will reveal. San Francisco is all about developers this week.
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Salesforce Recovers from Outage, Kicks Off Dreamforce 2013 #DF13
Salesforce opens its biggest conference of the year in San Francisco today under a fog unrelated to the legendary natural mists that haunt the city. The haze is lingering from a massive outage Salesforce customers on multiple continents experienced just three days before the start of Dreamforce 2013.
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10 Tech CEOs We'd Like to See In Movies
There's the Social Network. There's Jobs. While Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs have been the focus of recent Hollywood films, there are a host of popular tech CEOs whose stories are just as compelling.
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Social Media Briefs: Facebook Apps, Social Ads, and Hashtag Help
Social media is a work in progress. This week, Facebook shows us that there's always room for improvement, while Yahoo makes a play for video and Twitter teaches us how to choose the right hashtag. Facebook Changes Third Party App Permissions Facebook rolled out changes to the way third-party apps
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Marissa Mayer Celebrates One Year at Yahoo [Infographic]
One year ago today, Marissa Mayer became CEO of Yahoo. In her first year, she's shaken things up - making some key changes and some strategic acquisitions aimed to make a Yahoo a strong competitor once again.
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Yahoo's Updated News Page Boasts New Look, Increased Personalization
As part of its company-wide refresh, Yahoo! has given its News section a makeover. The redesign, which the company described as “a more personal, intuitive and modern design,” is part of an effort to establish a more consistent look-and-feel across the company.
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Confirmed: Yahoo to Acquire Tumblr for $1.1 Billion
Yahoo has announced that it will acquire Tumblr in a refreshingly honestly press release that states "Per the agreement and our promise not to screw it up, Tumblr will be independently operated as a separate business." Yahoo Gets Social, Finally After all the excitement of a possible social media buying war last week, it looks
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Tumblr The Target of a Social Media Bidding War?
Yahoo is bidding for Tumblr in an attempt to boost its social media credentials, but Facebook and other parties may be interested in spoiling the party.
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Yahoo Simplifies, Personalizes Home Page
New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is rebuilding the venerable Internet company, most visibly this week with the launch of the newly redesigned home page. The new Yahoo home page design is being rolled out to desktops, laptops, smartphones and tablets, and it attempts to maintain an appropriate balance between the
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Whither Yahoo? CEO Mayer Says Search Personalization, Partnerships
In what directions does Yahoo’s new CEO, Marissa Mayer, want to take her company? In an on-stage interview with Erik Schatzker of Bloomberg News last week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Mayer outlined some guideposts.
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Yahoo Buys Snip.it Social News Sharing Tool
Snip.it, a social sharing tool, now belongs to Yahoo, a company that surely hopes to maintain some semblance of relevancy at a time when Internet travelers are leaping headlong into social sites and mobile apps. Will it be a Pinterest lookalike? Perhaps Yahoo's version of Snip.it will incorporate search like Microsoft's Socl network. Snip.
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New Yahoo CEO Starts Company Reboot with Email
Given the popularity of Yahoo’s Web-based email -- it’s number one in the U.S. -- it makes sense that it would be the first makeover target for the new CEO, Marissa Mayer.
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Yahoo is Changing, Thanks to Marissa Mayer
Change is afoot at Yahoo, and new CEO Marissa Mayer (formerly VP and public face of key Yahoo rival Google) deserves the credit.
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Customer Experience: Content is an Enabler
Yahoo, which has traditionally been seen as a content company, has just hired Marissa Mayer, a product person to run it. On the Web we want to do things. Content enables us to do these things. Increasingly, the value of content is measured in what it enables us to do.
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