Posts Tagged ‘Marissa Mayer’

Marissa Mayer at LeWeb 2011: Google+ was a “pleasant surprise”

In the past few years Marissa Mayer returned to Paris each year to talk on stage of LeWeb to Michael Arrington of Techcrunch. Now Arrington has left TechCrunch but still is one of the big faces at a conference like LeWeb. This year however he didn’t interview, one of his ‘peers’, Crunchfund’s MG Siegler asked the questions, which helped the interview to be honest.

Mayer talked about several topics, from Google+ and Check-deals to her own role at Google, which has been less prominent the past year. Mayer also talked about Google+, calling it a “pleasant surprise”. (more…)

Friday Talk: Marissa Mayer (Google) at WITI Annual Conference

This week we highlight a lady speaker. The most important woman within Google and an example for many women out there when it comes to being successful. Mayer keynoted at the WITI Annual Conference in San Jose. She talks about Google off course, but mostly about management and how that works within Google.

Did Google’s Gaga Moment Obscure Court Settlement

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In a rather bizarre yet brilliant piece of external communications last week, Google released a YouTube video of a visit to Mountain View from Lady Gaga.

The video itself is an absolute triumph of humanising search, technology and Google by juxtaposing the data-effect with Gaga’s spectacular rise to fame. Marissa Meyer (who interviews Gaga) appears warm, interested and immediately relaxed; plus Gaga herself gives one of her best, most open interviews. It’s also apparent from some of her opening comments that she is a big Google fan, and talks about how she personally uses Google regularly to research her fans and the content they produce. (more…)

Marissa Mayer: “Google hasn’t gotten social yet”

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Mediabeat had the chance to sit down and talk to Marissa Mayer. And they got her to actually talk and give straight answers.

In the first part Marissa talks about Places where she highlights Hotpot as the competitive product from Google towards Foursquare. She is also asked how Google will get people to embrace this technology which pushes local. She indicates that everybody, including Google, is trying out what works and what doesn’t. Marissa also discusses missing the Groupon deal and how Google these days leaves a company intact when they buy that company and leave them the autonomy.

In the second part Marissa answers more questions about the different products she has been working on. She also claims: Search is about education. Facebook also gets a small sneer when it comes to opens. When asked about Buzz she admits Google hasn’t gotten social yet. But they are working on it. And as usual privacy is named as something they are very careful with. (more…)

Marissa Mayer: “Launching Gmail on April Fools day was widely misinterpreted”

Digg has found an interesting format of interviewing: Digg Dialogue, getting their audience to send in the questions and then ask them to  a ‘web-celebrity’. This time Marissa Mayer came back to Digg to answer questions. Mayer answered questions in all ranges, from the ‘disaster’ which was Google Wave up to Google TV, a Google Car and more.

A nice one: the one gadget she can’t live without: her Verizon card to get on the web and her smart phones.

See the entire interview below:

Marissa Mayer about Facebook: “There is a lot of content that is being locked in”

Haven’t I seen this somewhere before? Michael Arrington on stage in a talk with Google’s Marissa Mayer with Mayer almost constantly ‘dodging’ the questions, though the questions were not really that tough. Ah yes, It was the setting twice at LeWeb, in both 2008 and 2009. At the TechCrunch Disrupt conference last week they seemed to be doing a rerun of those sessions. Yet, this time Mayer did give us something to chew on. A little…

Some of the remarks Mayer made were not news, but merely a confirmation of what we already knew: (more…)