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Marissa Mayer. Marissa Ann Mayer ( / ˈmaɪ.ər /; born May 30, 1975) [4] is an American business executive and investor who served as president and chief executive officer of Yahoo! from 2012 to 2017. She was a long-time executive, usability leader and key spokesperson for Google (employee No. 20).
July 6, 2012: Yahoo! and Facebook settle their patent dispute. [102] July 16, 2012: Marissa Mayer is appointed CEO. [103] July 30, 2012: Levinsohn, former interim CEO, leaves Yahoo! [104] September 18, 2012: Yahoo! announced the completion of the first stage of the Alibaba share repurchase.
Jerry Yang. Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang ( Chinese: 楊致遠; pinyin: Yáng Zhìyuǎn; born Yang Chih-Yuan; November 6, 1968) is an American billionaire computer programmer, internet entrepreneur, and venture capitalist. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Yahoo! Inc. and founding partner of AME Cloud Ventures.
She left Google in 2012 to become CEO of Yahoo in an unsuccessful effort to turn around the fading internet pioneer. But Mayer still managed to triple Yahoo's stock price and create more than $30 ...
Yahoo CEO Jim Lanzone has overseen his share of internet success stories, in his nearly three decade career. From steering the ship at Ask.com, to the launch of CBS Interactive, Lanzone built his ...
The yahoo.com domain was created on January 18, 1995. [6] Yahoo! grew rapidly through 1990–1999 and diversified into a web portal, followed by numerous high-profile acquisitions. The company's stock price rose rapidly during the dot-com bubble and closed at an all-time high of US$118.75 in 2000. [7]
Marissa Mayer is most well-known for her stint as CEO of Yahoo, but before she took the helm of the tech giant, she took a serendipitous dive into the unknown by joining a then little-known ...
Yahoo! hired Thompson as CEO in January 2012. In early April 2012, Thompson announced and executed a plan to reduce Yahoo!'s 14,000 employees by 2,000, or 14% of the workforce. Several executives left Yahoo! just before the layoffs began. On March 14, 2012, Yahoo! filed a patent lawsuit against Facebook over ten patents.