Monday 23 July 2012

One Week of Mayer at Yahoo: Whither Ross? New Old Yahoos? More Search? Product Side “Elated!”

Good gracious, what a difference a week makes — at Yahoo, at least. 

With the installation of former Googler Marissa Mayer as its new CEO, the troubled Silicon Valley Internet giant bought itself a boatload of attention for the bold choice, and another tanker full of champagne dreams that it might have finally gotten a leader to take it out of its perpetual state of perpetualness. 

“Let’s be clear, she is our last hope,” said one board member to me, a sentiment that I also heard from another; and so, too, from a lot of execs and rank-and-file around the company.

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