Yahoo! CEO ditches BlackBerry, encourages others to BYOD

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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 the Google homepage (the seventh most-visited page on the web), Google Images, Google News and Gmail. An impressive CV, by anyone’s standards.

She’s now CEO of Yahoo – the youngest CEO in theFortune 500 – and hopes are high that she’ll be able to turn the company’s 47-percent share price drop into something more stability. Her message, she says, is core functionality and user experience.

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