Cross posted from BlackBerryScoop: Phones Review – Marissa Mayer is only 37. In that brief time, she’s worked on some top products for Google, having joined the company as the 20th employee in 1999. She’s a programmer by trade, having graduated from Stanford University with an M.S. in Computer Science – specialising in Artificial Intelligence – and is partly responsible for the look and feel of […]
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo co-founderJerry Yang is leaving the struggling company. The surprise departure, announced Tuesday, comes just two weeks after Yahoo Inc. hired former PayPal executive Scott Thomson as its CEO. Yang expressed his support of Thompson in his resignation fromYahoo’s board of directors. He had been on Yahoo’s board since the company’s 1995 inception. Yang is also stepping down […]
Microsoft may have blackballed Apple’s choice of datacenter head in the moves that ultimately led to Apple hiring from Yahoo, according an unusually detailed rumor. After fighting opposition from his immediate management on his way out, Kevin Timmons was supposedly met by CEO Steve Ballmer, SAI heard. Timmons may have had an “attitude” during the meeting that led to […]
