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Why Working at Home Can Be a Bad Idea

Slate's Katie Roiphe thinks a clear separation helps creativity

(Newser) - Marissa Mayer's decree requiring that Yahoo employees stop working from home and instead schlep to the office has set off a wave of pro and con arguments. Count Katie Roiphe of Slate , who has experience in both worlds, in Mayer's camp. When you work from home, you're...

Yahoo Defends Work-at-Home Ban

Move 'is about what is right for Yahoo right now'

(Newser) - Marissa Mayer's recently announced ban on telecommuting at Yahoo has caused quite a brouhaha ; now, the company is responding. "This isn’t a broad industry view on working from home," the firm says in a statement issued yesterday, per the New York Times . "This is about...

Yahoo Bans Telecommuting, Outrage Ensues

Marissa Mayer's new policy inspires a flurry of reactions

(Newser) - Marissa Mayer is making huge waves at Yahoo by banning telecommuting at the company—employees aren't happy, and most pundits are on their side. A sample of the reactions to Mayer's new policy, which AllThingsD revealed last week:
  • "Mayer is trying to put together a 21st century
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It's a Baby Boy for Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer

Husband Zachary Bogue reveals the news on Twitter

(Newser) - Now the multi-tasking really begins: New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has given birth to a baby boy and still plans to keep working from home, reports the Wall Street Journal . "Baby boy Bogue born last night," husband Zachary Bogue tweeted . "Mom ... and baby are doing great—we...

50 Most Powerful Women in Business

 50 Most 
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Fortune magazine
Sep 20, 2012 5:00 PM CDT

50 Most Powerful Women in Business

IBM's Ginni Rometty comes in at No. 1

(Newser) - Marissa Mayer's jump from Google to Yahoo might have made her the most high-profile woman in business this year, but she hasn't cracked the top 10 of the annual "most powerful" list from Fortune . Mayer is at No. 14, up from 38 last year. The top five:...

Mayer Gives Yahoo Workers Free iPhones

New CEO offers iPhone 5, Galaxy S3 ... you name it

(Newser) - Marissa Mayer's quest to boost morale at Yahoo doesn't stop at free food and office makeovers . The new CEO is also offering employees a brand-new smartphone with free data and phone service, Business Insider reports. Workers in 22 countries must ditch their Blackberry—Yahoo's current corporate phone—...

Google Rarity: Big Ad on Homepage

Spare look is gone as company pushes its tablet

(Newser) - Google's iconic bare-bones front page is seeing a notable change today: For the first time, it carries an animated banner ad, Mashable reports. The image shows the top of Google's own Nexus 7 Android tablet. The page has hosted advertising before—for the Nexus One smartphone, for instance—...

German Official: Mayer's Maternity Leave Too Short

Female Cabinet member criticizes Yahoo exec's decision

(Newser) - New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer says she plans to take a few weeks off for maternity leave and even work from home when she has her baby . This has suddenly become a political issue—in Germany. The nation's minister of family affairs tells Der Spiegel that Mayer is setting...

Marissa Mayer Gives Yahoo a 'Cool' Makeover

Free lunches, new layout aimed at happier workplace

(Newser) - With Marissa Mayer at the helm for just two weeks, Yahoo is already looking more and more like her old workplace, Google: more "collaborative and cool," writes Kara Swisher at AllThingsD . That means some fresh perks for workers, most notable among them, free food in the company's...

Mayer&#39;s Job: Figure Out What Yahoo Is

 Mayer's Job: 
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 What Yahoo Is 
david carr
Jul 23, 2012 11:32 AM CDT

Mayer's Job: Figure Out What Yahoo Is

David Carr's guess: It's all about news

(Newser) - Yahoo is so unsure of its own goals that David Carr wonders "whether the frothy trademark Yahoo! should be replaced with Yahoo?," he writes in the New York Times . Now that Marissa Mayer is onboard as CEO, it's time for the company to define itself. And Carr...

Yahoo Could Pay Marissa Mayer $100M Over 5 Years

Stocks and options dwarf her actual salary

(Newser) - She may have an almost impossible task ahead of her at Yahoo, but at least Marissa Mayer will be well paid for her efforts. Very well paid. Kara Swisher of All Things D reports that Yahoo could end up shelling out at least $60 million over five years, more than...

Marissa Mayer Will Likely Fail at Yahoo—But Don't Blame Her

Farhad Manjoo: She's great, but she has a near-impossible task

(Newser) - Marissa Mayer has said she likes to feel a little over her head, and her decision to leave Google to run Yahoo certainly must qualify, writes Farhad Manjoo at Slate . Mayer is great, but Yahoo is a bloated, unfocused mess. Lately, it has "flitted from one new Web fad...

New Yahoo Chief Marissa Mayer Is Pregnant

Due with first child Oct. 7

(Newser) - If you were impressed by yesterday's announcement of Marissa Mayer's big jump from Google to the helm of Yahoo, get ready to be a little more wowed: The 37-year-old is making the leap while pregnant with her first child, a boy due Oct. 7, reports Fortune . (Dad is...

Google Exec Jumps Ship to Lead Yahoo

Marissa Mayer calls it 'a reasonably easy decision'

(Newser) - Yahoo shocked Silicon Valley today by luring a top Google executive to lead the rudderless Internet company, the New York Times reports. Marissa Mayer, one of corporate America's most prominent women—and a rare public face for Google—agreed to become Yahoo's CEO starting tomorrow. She "had...

Obama Meets With Steve Jobs, Google VP

President talks tech, innovation in Cali

(Newser) - President Obama met with Apple's Steve Jobs in California yesterday, the New York Times ' notes. The two talked tech, innovation, and education, before the president took his leave to meet another tech titan: Marissa Mayer of Google. Mayer hosted the president and about 50 others at her home for...

Google Exec Reinvents Geek Chic
 Google Exec 
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PROFILE
Jul 15, 2009 12:17 PM CDT

Google Exec Reinvents Geek Chic

Marissa Mayer can't be compartmentalized

(Newser) - Marissa Mayer is Google’s 20th—or maybe 16th—employee, responsible for such household names as Gmail and Google Maps. But the 34-year-old exec is also addicted to cheese and Oscar de la Renta, and carries an iPhone “to have a non-Google product to better simulate the user,”...

Google: The Next Generation
Google: The Next Generation
Nov 5, 2007 7:30 AM CST

Google: The Next Generation

Inside Google's unique program to find its future innovators

(Newser) - They're brilliant young men and women just out of college, and they're handed more responsibility than many executives enjoy in a lifetime. They're the elite associate product managers of Google, parachuted into top management—like running Gmail or Google Reader—before they're tainted by anyone else's corporate culture. Newsweek tags...

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