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<title>Report: Yahoo board approves $1.1B Tumblr acquisition</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/05/19/stagnant.internet.giant.buys.popular.young.property/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1202/tumblrsml.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[In the latest step of CEO Marissa Mayer's plan to turn around popular but stagnating Internet giant Yahoo, the company's board has reportedly approved a $1.1 billion acquisition of the social sharing site Tumblr. The board met on Sunday to discuss the acquisition, which appears to have been a foregone conclusion due to the fact that Yahoo had already scheduled a Monday event on Friday. The compa...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2013 18:06:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer picks up $1 million bonus</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/13/03/07/marissa.mayer.exceeds.performance.goals.receives.1.million.bonus/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1303/marissa-mayer-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer has picked up $1.12 million bonus for meeting performance targets, reports Bloomberg. As Mayer only joined Yahoo in July of 2012 from Google, where she was one of its top executives, the payment was made on a pro-rata basis. Since joining Yahoo, Mayer has helped to drive its stock price up over 40 percent, while also helping Yahoo to its first sales increases in the past ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 10:08:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Yahoo acquires OnTheAir video chat startup</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/12/04/five.person.video.chat.company.to.join.yahoos.mobile.group/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1354663802_ScreenShot2012-12-04at4.19.47PM.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Yahoo announced today that it had acquired OnTheAir, a five-person video chat startup company, in a deal meant to improve Yahoo's mobile communications capabilities. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Yahoo did say that OnTheAir's team would be integrated into Yahoo's mobile group. The acquisition is seen by some observers as part of a continuing effort on the part of Yahoo...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 23:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Report: Yahoo's Mayer tightening operations over holidays</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/11/19/performance.evaluations.said.to.come.vacation.cuts/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1342472722_marissamayer-red.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer appears to be tightening up operations as she plots a new course for one of the world's larger Internet companies. Reports hold that Mayer is cutting down on traditional holiday vacation hours and implementing a number of cost-cutting and efficiency-raising measures, including cutting up to 12,000 of the company's employees. Mayer has already eliminated the end-of-year "...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Nov 2012 22:48:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Goldman in as new Yahoo CFO</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/09/25/goldman.comes.from.fortinet.to.yahoo/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Yahoo CEO okays iPhone 5 or alternative as employee perk</title>
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<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1347940322_mmayer-sm.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[According to emails collected by Business Insider, CEO Marissa Mayer has offered every Yahoo employee a new Apple, Samsung, Nokia, or HTC smartphone. The plan, called "Yahoo! Smart Phones, Smart Fun" is intended to provide employees with the same class of device that Yahoo users are using....]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 03:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Yahoo's Mayer speeds up IntoNow timeline</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/07/31/second.screen.app.gets.pushed.up/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1342472722_marissamayer-red.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Recently-appointed Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is said to have pushed up the development of Yahoo's IntoNow app to get the product out ahead of schedule. The move came as Yahoo fights slumping revenues and attempts to right itself and leverage its user base toward greater profits. As Advertising Age reports, the IntoNow decision was aimed at taking advantage of the product's capabilities during the ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:39:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google exec Marissa Mayer to become next Yahoo CEO</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/12/07/16/represents.loss.of.core.member.of.google/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/article_images/article_thumbnail/1342472722_marissamayer-red.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[One Google's leading executives, Marissa Mayer, is leaving the company to become the next CEO of Yahoo, the New York Times reports.  Mayer is said to have resigned from Google by telephone just this afternoon, despite starting with Yahoo on Tuesday.  In an interview Mayer claims that she "had an amazing time at Google," but that it "was a reasonably easy decision" to jump to Yahoo, which she ...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 21:05:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title>Google's Mayer skips question of Apple dropping Google Maps</title>
<link>http://www.electronista.com/articles/11/05/30/google.wont.touch.question.of.apple.map.swap/</link>
<description>&#60;img align='left' src='http://photos.macnn.com/news/1105/google-marissamayer.jpg' border='0' width='176' height='120' /><![CDATA[Google's Location VP Marissa Mayer in an interview at the recently wrapped up TechCrunch Disrupt event skirted the question of Apple possibly dropping Google Maps.  When asked what Google will do if iOS suddenly stops using its engine in favor of an in-house solution, Mayer sand she was "not going to speculate" as to future plans.  She steered the question towards the importance of mobile as a who...]]></description>
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<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 02:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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