Google's Marissa Mayer Becomes Yahoo! CEO 302
D H NG writes "Marissa Mayer, Google's employee #20 and Vice President of Local, has been appointed CEO of Yahoo. She was Google's public face for years, famously being responsible for the look and feel of Google's most popular products: the famously unadorned white search homepage, Gmail, Google News and Google Images. Mayer resigned from Google Monday afternoon and will begin her new job on Tuesday."
best thing to happen to Yahoo (Score:5, Informative)
That is the best thing to happen to Yahoo in a long time. She's significantly more competent than the previous CEO, and has more knowledge of tech companies than the one before that. She has some serious challenges, but she could change the worst parts of culture at Yahoo (which is currently driving away top talent).
She did a couple [wsj.com] interviews [wsj.com] lately, if you want to know more about her.
Bio and more links here [wsj.com].
Re:Non-compete? (Score:5, Informative)
Since both companies are based in California, and California forbids non-compete clauses, no such clause is applicable.
Now she could be sued for use of trade secrets, that is, if she ever does, but just going to work for Yahoo is not illegal for her.
Re:best thing to happen to Yahoo (Score:5, Informative)
psychology major
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Mayer graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. with honors in symbolic systems and an M.S. in Computer Science. For both degrees, she specialized in artificial intelligence.