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Yahoo prepares to buy Tumblr for up to $1.1 billion

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Marissa Mayer, the former Googler who is now chief executive of Yahoo, is poised to create yet another nothing-to-riches tale in the web industry with a rumoured $1.1bn (£720m) acquisition of the blogging site Tumblr. Mayer called Yahoo’s board together on Sunday afternoon to discuss the company’s latest attempt to regain the glamour it…

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Yahoo worker benefits to include gifts for babies, puppies, and kittens

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New mom and Yahoo! chief Marissa Mayer has added gifts for babies, puppies and kittens to employee perks as part of a campaign to bolster morale, the pioneering Internet firm confirmed on Tuesday. “We’ve been very focused on making Yahoo! the absolute best place to work,” a spokesman for the…

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Yahoo CEO orders end to working from home

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Marissa Mayer has ordered an end to ‘remote’ work as all staff are told to be in the office as part of a new era of collaboration Surfing the web from at home might be just what Yahoo‘s chief Marissa Mayer wants her audience to do – but she has banned employees of…

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Yahoo! chief Mayer wants Microsoft’s Bing to take marketshare from Google Search

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Google veteran turned Yahoo! chief Marissa Mayer wants Microsoft to deliver when it comes to wresting market share from the Internet company she was part of for more than a decade. During a talk at a financial analysts conference on Tuesday, Mayer spoke of “nice gains” in revenue from Bing-powered…

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Web founder Berners-Lee: Governments are suppressing online freedom

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The inventor of the World Wide Web warned Friday that government control is limiting the possibilities of the Internet, as dozens of countries and businesses signed a cybersecurity deal at the Davos forum. The comments by Tim Berners-Lee at the World Economic Forum plugged into a wider debate among the…

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Yahoo! overhauls its email for mobile and web

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Yahoo! said Tuesday it was revamping its email for the Web and mobile devices in a move aimed at streamlining the service and making its look consistent across various platforms. “Since it’s such an important part of our daily lives, we’re making a few improvements to Yahoo! Mail,” chief executive…

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Yahoo! raids Google for another key executive

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SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo! on Monday announced it had nabbed another key Google executive, naming Henrique de Castro as chief operating officer. De Castro will report directly to chief executive Marissa Mayer, who came from Google in July to help turn around the struggling Internet pioneer. “Henrique is an incredibly…

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Yahoo! number two exec quits after losing out on top spot

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Yahoo! on Monday announced the departure of Ross Levinsohn, who served as interim chief executive and was seen as a favorite for the top job before the firm named Marissa Meyer to the post. Regulatory documents indicated Levinsohn would leave with an “equity award” including 67,000 restricted stock units and…

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Pregnant new CEO for Yahoo! stirs debate on working moms

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WASHINGTON — No sooner was Marissa Mayer named chief executive of Yahoo! than she announced she’s pregnant. In doing so, she ramped up a lively ongoing debate in the United States about working moms. Mayer, 37, a Silicon Valley high-flyer who quit the top ranks of Google to take the…

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