Sun Setting On Yahoo’s Contributor Network

Yahoo Voices Shutting Down Yahoo sent an email the other day to the members of it's nearly decade old Yahoo Contributor Network. The Yahoo Voices Contributor Network provided an outlet for bloggers, and writers across many categories like news, tech, sports and finance, with a built in audience of 600 million. The contributor network paid [...]

Marissa Mayer Still Has Her Engineer Boots On At Yahoo

By trade, and education, Marissa Mayer is an engineer. She was employee number 20 at Google and their first female engineer back in 1998. As she grew with the company she helped invent things that we use, and take for granted everyday. Mayer's name is found on several Google patens for technology still in use, [...]

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Yahoo Is Going To Rock Out With Live Nation Everyday For A Year

While everyone is talking about Marissa Mayer and the fact that she's made $214 million dollars in just 15 months at Yahoo, what are they going to do about it? They're going to rock out with Live Nation. Yahoo announced at their "Digital Content New Front" on Monday in New York that they've entered into [...]

Has Marissa Mayer Lured Katie Couric To Yahoo?

Reports were running rampant late last week that Katie Couric, the once favorite face of the Today Show, may be abandoning network television for Yahoo. AdvAge reported on Saturday that a deal bringing Couric to Yahoo could be announced before Thanksgiving. Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo, has been working diligently on making Yahoo a [...]

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Wow! Yahoo Has 400 Million Monthly Mobile Users

When Marissa Mayer took over the job as CEO at Yahoo she knew it was going to be an uphill climb but most in the tech community knew that she was just the person to do the job. Mayer's background is firmly entrenched in the internet and now mobile.  During her lengthy time at Google [...]