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Yahoo Is the New Netflix? Mayer Shopping for TV Shows

Service looks to compete with Netflix, Amazon

(Newser) - Yahoo is looking to cash in on online TV in a serious way, with insiders telling the Wall Street Journal that it's aiming to roll out four new half-hour comedy series. The series, whose budgets could run to several million dollars per episode, would consist of 10 episodes headed...

Marissa Mayer Fires High-Priced No. 2

Henrique de Castro will be getting a big payday

(Newser) - Marissa Mayer has fired COO Henrique de Castro, 15 months after she snatched him away from Google on an outsized four-year package worth an estimated $62 million. That was Mayer's first big hire as CEO, but he hasn't been able to boost Yahoo's flagging ad revenue as...

It's Official: Couric Is New Face of Yahoo News

Marissa Mayer announces Katie Couric as 'Global Anchor'

(Newser) - The rumors are true: Katie Couric is jumping over to online news. Yahoo announced today Couric will be its "global anchor" starting early next year. She'll be "the face of Yahoo News," writes Marissa Mayer, shooting features for the Yahoo homepage, continuing to host her...

Katie Couric Set to Leave ABC for Yahoo: Report

Marissa Mayer looking to beef up media presence: Hollywood Reporter

(Newser) - It looks like Katie Couric is just about done with network television. The Hollywood Reporter says she's in talks to leave ABC and join Yahoo, after being personally wooed by Marissa Mayer. The report says her daytime talk show, Katie, will likely be done after this season, its second....

Yahoo to Encrypt All Products Amid NSA Spying

Marissa Mayer: We don't take users' trust 'for granted'

(Newser) - Yahoo is taking further steps to prevent NSA snooping: The company will encrypt all its products, and soon. In a blog post yesterday, CEO Marissa Mayer announced that by the end of Q1 next year, users will be able to have all data going to and from Yahoo encrypted if...

Did Marissa Mayer Just Buy a Funeral Home?

Sources at funeral home say 'yes,' owner says he doesn't know

(Newser) - Is Marissa Mayer getting out of the tech business and into the ... death business? Probably not, but sources at Palo Alto's oldest funeral home tell the Palo Alto Weekly that the Yahoo CEO just bought their 1.16-acre property, a block away from her home. But the funeral home'...

Zuckerberg on NSA: 'Government Blew It'

Marissa Mayer also talks government surveillance

(Newser) - Mark Zuckerberg and Marissa Mayer were both asked about the newly revealed NSA surveillance programs at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference yesterday, and neither had anything positive to say, the Guardian reports. "Frankly, I think the government blew it," Zuckerberg said, adding that he believes the government did a...

Yahoo Overtakes Google in Traffic

Marissa Mayer has reason to celebrate

(Newser) - Yahoo just earned some nice bragging rights over Google: Marissa Mayer's company is the new king of web traffic, according to July stats from comScore. That's the first time Yahoo has beaten Google since May 2011 and will likely be seen as validation for Mayer's moves in...

Marissa Mayer&#39;s Vampy Vogue Pic Sells Out Geeks
Marissa Mayer's Vampy Vogue Pic Sells Out Geeks
OPINION
Aug 21, 2013 1:59 PM CDT

Marissa Mayer's Vampy Vogue Pic Sells Out Geeks

Pepper Schwartz can understand why, but wishes she hadn't

(Newser) - Marissa Mayer lounges seductively in her new Vogue photo spread, a choice of pose that is proving controversial. A debate is raging over whether the fashion shoot takes away from the actual profile of Mayer, or whether, as a successful female CEO, she should be able to pose however the...

Founder Gets Avalanche of Money to Stay at Tumblr

If he sticks around til June 2017, David Karp gets $81M

(Newser) - Tumblr founder David Karp has about 81 million reasons to spend the next four years working his current job. The $1.1 billion sale of his baby to Yahoo back in May includes a retention payment of $81 million—$41 million in stock and $40 million in cash, the AP...

Top CEOs Scored 16% Pay Rise Last Year: Study
 Top CEOs Scored 16% 
 Pay Rise Last Year 
STUDY SAYS
Jun 30, 2013 3:53 PM CDT

Top CEOs Scored 16% Pay Rise Last Year

Top salary of the year? $96.2M

(Newser) - So much for reining in CEO salaries. New research has found that the top 200 CEOs of public companies with at least $1 billion in revenue had an average pay package of $15.1 million last year—a pay-raise of approximately 16% from 2011, the New York Times reports. The...

Marissa Mayer Gets 'Scuzzball Comment' From Shareholder

Yahoo chief ignores line from self-described 'dirty old man'

(Newser) - Oh, the joy of being a female CEO, and in the tech industry , no less: At Yahoo's shareholder meeting today, Marissa Mayer got to hear this from a questioner, reports Sam Biddle at ValleyWag (which has the video):
  • "I have 2,000 shares of Yahoo, I'm Greek,
...

Yahoo: Most Data Requests Tied to Fraud, Murder

It got as many as 13K requests from government in 6 months

(Newser) - Yahoo has never been a big fan of the NSA's surveillance activities, and it tried to distance itself from them even further yesterday by revealing just how many requests for data it got from the government. The number, CEO Marissa Mayer wrote in a Tumblr post, was "between...

Now Yahoo Is Going After Hulu

Marissa Mayer joins list of big suitors, says AllThingsD

(Newser) - First Tumblr , now Hulu? On the heels of its billion-dollar acquisition of the blogging site, Marissa Mayer's Yahoo has put in an offer for the video-streaming site, reports AllThingsD . This time, however, Yahoo has some serious competition, with the likes of DirecTV, Time Warner Cable, private-equity firm KKR,...

Yahoo Promises Not to 'Screw Up' Tumblr

Tumblr CEO David Karp echoes that: 'We're not turning purple'

(Newser) - As Marissa Mayer puts it , "Tumblr. + Yahoo! = !!" As Tumblr CEO David Karp puts it , "F--- yeah." The two companies this morning announced that a definitive agreement has been reached and that Yahoo will indeed acquire Tumblr for $1.1 billion, a transaction that Mayer...

Yahoo to Buy Tumblr for $1.1B
 Yahoo to Buy 
 Tumblr for $1.1B 
May 19, 2013 11:50 AM CDT

Yahoo to Buy Tumblr for $1.1B

Board approves cash deal in 'foregone conclusion'

(Newser) - The rumors were apparently pretty accurate : Yahoo will indeed acquire Tumblr, and its board has approved a $1.1 billion cash deal for the blogging site. The board met today and unanimously OKed the deal, in what AllThingsD 's Kara Swisher reports was "a foregone conclusion." It'...

Mayer Beefs Up Yahoo's Maternity Policy

Move follows controversy over telecommute ban

(Newser) - Yahoo stirred up controversy when CEO Marissa Mayer banned working from home ; now, Mayer is reaching out to fellow parents by way of a beefed-up maternity policy. Moms will now get 16 weeks of paid leave, with new dads getting eight, NBC Bay Area reports. That's double the new...

Flexible Work Hurts Working Mothers

 Flexible Work 
 Hurts Working 
 Mothers 
OPINION
Mar 28, 2013 1:31 PM CDT

Flexible Work Hurts Working Mothers

Think twice before taking that telecommuting position: Dwyer Gunn

(Newser) - Amid all the uproar over Marissa Mayer ending telecommuting at Yahoo , the biggest concern of many was that the new policy would hurt working moms. But studies show it's actually flexible work policies that do the most harm to working moms, writes flex-worker and mom Dwyer Gunn on Slate...

Sheryl Sandberg Has Marissa Mayer's Back

A male CEO would never have been attacked with the same intensity, she says

(Newser) - In an extensive interview with Time focusing on her new book, part memoir/part "feminist manifesto" Lean In, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg takes a moment to support her friend, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. Mayer, who was jumped on for ending Yahoo's work-at-home policy and was particularly criticized by work-at-home...

Yahoo Gave Marissa Mayer $1.1M Bonus After 6 Months

Plus restricted stock worth $13.3M

(Newser) - Marissa Mayer got a pretty sweet six-month anniversary gift from Yahoo: She spent just half of 2012 as CEO, and got a $1.12 million cash bonus for her troubles, CNNMoney reports. She also received restricted stock worth $13.3 million, according to company filings. This year Mayer, who started...

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