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-07-16-12 Yahoo Hires Google's Mayer for CEO (CNN News) "There was a time, out here in Silicon Valley, when Marissa Mayer seemed to have as symbiotic a relationship with Google as its founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and its CEO, Eric Schmidt, did."
"As the company’s 20th hire, she had been with Google for nearly its entire history, and was instrumental in creating its namesake search engine, Gmail and other services. And at Google media events, she was often the primary spokesperson–an articulate and enthusiastic advocate for whatever the company was announcing."
"It never occurred to me that Yahoo’s board would be smart enough to offer Marissa Mayer this job, or that she’d be audacious enough to take it. But now that it’s happening, I can’t think of anyone who’d clearly be a better choice. Even if the odds are still against Yahoo, the odds that its CEO is finally going to be an asset rather than an albatross seem pretty good." 07-12
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