The Internet 2002-2012: What a difference a decade makes

August 14, 2012 3:26 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

A decade -- 10 years. Doesn't sound like much, right?

But a decade ago, the big social networking story was Friendster with a whopping 3 million users. Microsoft's Internet Explorer had 95 percent market share. And less than 600 million people were online globally ... fewer than Facebook users alone in 2012.

Yahoo’s Mayer said to be courting Twitter exec Stanton to boost media

August 10, 2012 7:17 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been reportedly attempting to recruit Twitter VP Katie Jacobs Stanton to boost the company's media products.

$7 billion would come in very handy to help Marissa Mayer reinvent Yahoo

August 9, 2012 3:44 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

Can $7 billion reinvigorate Yahoo? That’s a question for new CEO Marissa Mayer, who looks to be clearing the decks in preparation for significant changes to Yahoo strategy.

In May of this year, Yahoo agreed to sell half of its …

Marissa Mayer brings a little Google to Yahoo with product focus

August 9, 2012 6:43 AM Devindra Hardawar
Devindra Hardawar

New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, well-known for her obsessive dedication to products like Google's search and Gmail, isn't wasting time on shaking up Yahoo's complacent corporate attitude.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer addresses staff queries with Google-inspired Q&A tool

August 6, 2012 11:27 AM Jennifer Van Grove
Jennifer Van Grove

Yahoos have questions. And apparently three weeks into the job, newly minted Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has the answers.

To facilitate the question and answer process, Mayer employed a new electronic, Google-inspired Q&A tool at the company’s all-hands meeting on …

Mayer’s first Google personnel poach: not a geek

August 2, 2012 3:32 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has brought her first Google staffer over to Yahoo, as AllThingsD notes: Anne Espiritu, who ran consumer technology PR for Google. In other words, not a geek.

Espiritu seems happy about the move, if we …

Yahoo Mail one-ups Gmail with better calendar integration

August 1, 2012 1:05 PM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Looks like those free lunches are already starting to pay off. Yahoo has moved its popular email service forward with the addition of a calendar tab and made it possible to reply to calendar invites inside mail, the company announced …

Alibaba set to raise $8B for Yahoo buyback

July 31, 2012 8:07 AM Ed Sutherland
Ed Sutherland

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group is raising more than $8 billion in a new round of funding, the majority of which will be used to buy back half of its shares from Yahoo, the New York Times reports.

The deal …

Yahoo is coming for your iPads, via your TVs

July 30, 2012 8:32 PM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

Yahoo has just launched the newest version of IntoNow, its TV companion app, and it’s bringing a boatload of new features to tablet and smartphone devices.

IntoNow is the media-centric company’s television sidekick “experience.” It brings avid TV fans a …

Former Yahoo CEO gets the boot

July 30, 2012 2:15 PM Jolie O'Dell
Jolie O'Dell

As most onlookers expected, former Yahoo interim CEO Ross Levinsohn has left the company following the onboarding of new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer. It was a somewhat forced resignation; Levinsohn is leaving only because Yahoo passed him up for the …

The Google-fication of Yahoo begins with free lunch

July 29, 2012 6:27 PM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is wasting no time is remaking the company into something akin to her former digs at Google.

Some of the changes Mayer is enacting immediately are free lunch at the company’s cafe and company-wide weekly …

Worst board in America: HP, Yahoo, RIM compete for dubious prize [infographic]

July 23, 2012 1:14 PM John Koetsier
John Koetsier

HP has lost $80 billion in value in the last two years. Yahoo has lost $42 billion, and RIM $78 billion. And before a quick rebound to $86 billion in market value, Bank of America shed a staggering $136 billion …

Disgraced ex-Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson tapped to lead ShopRunner

July 23, 2012 8:27 AM Sean Ludwig
Sean Ludwig

Ex-Yahoo CEO and resume-fudger Scott Thompson has been selected by retail organization ShopRunner to lead its efforts to take on Amazon.

Thompson attracted a lot of attention when he moved from PayPal to being Yahoo’s CEO. But just a few …

Marissa Mayer tells Yahoo crew to “keep moving” as she figures out how to fix things

July 20, 2012 6:07 AM Devindra Hardawar
Devindra Hardawar

It’s still too early to tell how new Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is going to right the ship, but that’s not stopping her from cheering on her new team.

In a memo sent to Yahoo employees last night (and dug …

Marissa Mayer’s confusing salary: She could get $60M for her first year

July 19, 2012 5:18 PM Meghan Kelly
Meghan Kelly

Yahoo revealed Marissa Mayer’s starting salary today, which may top out at around $60 million in her first year at the media company.

Yahoo filed Marissa’s salary offer with the Securities and Exchange Commission today. She will earn a base …

Mayer missing from Yahoo’s earnings call, though we’ll “hear from her soon”

July 17, 2012 2:21 PM Meghan Kelly
Meghan Kelly

Yahoo has been around the block once or twice when it comes to picking out its CEOs, and it may be a little more protective with its latest tap, Marissa Mayer. Mayer was not on the company’s earnings call today …

Yahoo’s Q2 earnings give Marissa Mayer a good starting point

July 17, 2012 1:22 PM Tom Cheredar
Tom Cheredar

Yahoo posted better than expected results for its Q2 2012 earnings, with revenue at $1,081 million — flat compared to the second quarter of 2011. Non-GAAP net earnings per diluted share increased 47 percent to $0.27 compared to the same …