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Daily archive Jul 16, 2012

Yahoo! And other exclamations as Marissa Mayer is named CEO

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What I Said About Marissa Mayer Last Year

In a column I wrote about the most powerful women in Silicon Valley that ran in January 2011, I ranked Marissa Mayer as No. 5 on the list and said:
"5. Marissa Mayer, 35, vice president of geographic and local services, Read More →

The Move No One Saw Coming: Marissa Mayer Becomes Yahoo CEO

That sound you just heard was Silicon Valley collectively spitting up its coffee. Marissa Mayer is Yahoo's new CEO. It's shocking. It's audacious. Most likely, it will end in complete and utter failure. But for the moment, it's hard not to Read More →

Stock watch: Gilead’s HIV drug approved, plus Tesla’s Model S boost and Yahoo, Intel pre-earnings

We're watching some Silicon Valley stocks in the context of news and earnings. • Shares of Gilead Sciences are up 1.25 percent to about $51.80 as of this post. As the Mercury News' Steve Johnson reports, the Read More →

Talking gadgets: smaller iPad vs. other tablets, plus Nokia’s Lumia move

We're talking gadgets. (Also, here's a link to talking gadgets.) • First, tablets. Apple is thinking different, as in smaller, according to the New York Times, which reports that the company will announce a smaller, Read More →

Quoted: on Tumblr and mullets

"The mullet theory of social software design... It’s all business in the front: you have your blog that looks like any other blog, although usually prettier. And then the real party is in the back, through the social interaction on Read More →
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