In this Friday talk not a presentation, but an interview. With the new CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer. She talked to Patricia Sellers at the Fortune Most Powerful Women dinner in Palo Alto, California.
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What Should Marissa Mayer do at Yahoo?
Marissa Mayer’s move shocked a few people, made some eyebrows frown and made a lot of people think: what on earth is she doing? But what will she be doing is one of the big questions.
In the past few years new CEO’s have always given their views on what they believe they should focus on at Yahoo. No doubt Marissa Mayer will shortly come with a similar statement. What that will say we will have to wait and see, but in the meanwhile we can think about things she can do ourselves. So we’ve asked our blogging team and we’ve asked you on our Facebook page to tell us what you thought Marissa Mayer should do on her first day at Yahoo. Here are the answers: (more…)
Marissa Mayer’s Move: What the Experts Think
Yesterday Marissa Mayer made one of the most surprising moves in this young industry ever. Her move from Google to become CEO of Yahoo is unprecedented and it will be interesting to see what she will make of it over at the former search giant.
The sudden move also triggered a lot of questions: why did she move? Why did Google let her go so easily? What else is going on? And even the question of who is going to replace her when she is getting her first baby in October showed up.
We decided to ask some industry experts on their thoughts about Marissa Mayers move. Fresh into the news they responded: (more…)
Official: Marissa Mayer Named as New Yahoo CEO
It is coming as a shock on Twitter, Facebook and Google+ at the moment and when Barry Schwartz just tweeted it I first thought it was a joke but The New York Times just announced that Marissa Mayer is supposedly the new CEO of Yahoo. This is a stunning move from one of Google’s top names and oldest employees and food for a lot of discussion as well.
Ms Mayer will be appointed as the president and chief executive of Yahoo, making her one of the most powerful women in Silicon Valley. Mayer moved from search to local in 2010 and has been very active in that area since, with the launch of Google+ Local recently as her high point.
Mayer has been very ‘quiet’ over the past few weeks, not tweeting or updating her Google Profile for two weeks. We now know why.
The move is a very surprising move from Mayers side with Yahoo not being in the best position possible at the moment and will feed rumors about the future of Yahoo as well. Apparently she resigned today and will be starting tomorrow. (more…)
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
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”
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…)
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