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A Yahoo Search Calls Up a Chief From Google — Updated — Marissa Mayer, one of the top executives at Google, will be the next chief of Yahoo, making her one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley and corporate America. — The appointment of Ms. Mayer is consider a coup for Yahoo …
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New Yahoo CEO Mayer is pregnant — Marissa Mayer, the Google (GOOG) executive who today was named Yahoo's (YHOO) new chief executive, is pregnant. — Mayer told Fortune exclusively that her first child is due October 7. It's a boy! — “He's super-active,” Mayer told me in a phone call tonight …
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Yahoo! Appoints Marissa Mayer Chief Executive Officer — SUNNYVALE, Calif.—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) today announced that it has appointed Marissa Mayer as President and Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Board of Directors effective July 17, 2012.
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Google Doesn't Plan to Name New Local Head to Replace Marissa Mayer — New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer won't be directly replaced at Google, where she was VP of local, maps and location services until Monday. — Mayer's duties will be filled by her lieutenants, according to two sources with knowledge of the organization.
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Levinsohn Unlikely to Stay at Yahoo, as Mayer Begins Her Talent Search — According to sources both inside and outside of Yahoo, outgoing interim CEO Ross Levinsohn — who lost the race for the company's top job to Google exec Marissa Mayer — is unlikely to remain at the company.
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Microsoft unveils the new Office — Delivers Office as a cloud service while harnessing innovations enabled by Windows 8 — Today, Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer unveiled the customer preview of the new Microsoft Office, available at office.com/preview.
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Microsoft Office 2013 preview: details, screenshots and impressions — It's been about three years since Microsoft unveiled a new version of Office, and particularly with Windows 8 just months away from dropping, the software has been well overdue for an upgrade.| Joanna Stern / ABC News: |
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AT&T appears set to control and charge for FaceTime over Cellular in iOS 6 — Like it does with the iOS Personal Hotspot feature, U.S. carrier AT&T appears set to control and charge for the iOS 6 FaceTime over Cellular feature. This iOS 6 enhancement brings the formally WiFi …
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Apple Rolling Out iCloud.com Email Addresses with iOS 6 Beta 3 — With today's release of iOS 6 Beta 3 to developers, Apple has revealed in the update's change log that it is beginning the first stages of transitioning users from the me.com email addresses and Apple IDs available under MobileMe to new addresses using icloud.com.| Eric Slivka / MacRumors: |
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VMware plans cloud spin out to keep up with Microsoft, Amazon and Google — VMware, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based virtualization and software company, is planning a corporate shakeup. GigaOM has learned that VMware hopes to spin out some of its cloud assets, including its Cloud Foundry platform … | Caroline Gaffney / LinkedIn Blog: |
Introducing a Simpler Homepage — Millions of you are coming to LinkedIn everyday to discover and discuss what matters most to your professional life. And today, we've started to roll out a simpler and easier way to navigate Homepage experience that offers quick access to the relevant information … | Robinson Meyer / The Atlantic Online: |
3 Charts That Show How Wikipedia Is Running Out of Admins — Very few people are being promoted into the humble, hard-working positions which make Wikipedia work. — Volunteer editing of Wikipedia is on a long decline. The number of editors peaked in 2007 and has been falling since.
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Next iPhone Has Thinner Screen — HONG KONG—Apple Inc.'s next iPhone, currently being manufactured by Asian component makers, will use a new technology that makes the smartphone's screen thinner, people familiar with the matter said, as the U.S. technology giant strives …
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Marc Andreessen Says Now's the Time to Build Companies Like It's 1999 — Few people have the perspective of living and working in the tech industry that venture capitalist Marc Andreessen has. Founder of the browser company Netscape and then of the software company LoudCloud …
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