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Yahoo hired a new CEO, Marissa Mayer- who served Google for 13 years. The announcement has been made while it releases second quarter earning on Tuesday.
Marissa Mayer is not the first woman in CEO of high-profile technology company, but still its rare to find woman in top post of technology companies.
Mayer joined Google in 1999 as first female engineer and its 20th employee. She does not have any Google products like simple homepage, Gmail, Google news thats known to her , but she is inside all the major services that Google developed over the Google's first transformative decade. Mayer was on the three-strong team who invented Google AdWords, the groundbreaking algorithm that linked advertisers' keywords to search results and helped deliver 96% of the company's $10.6bn revenues in the first quarter of the last year.
"The first and lasting impression of working with Marissa is of someone incredibly smart," said Dan Crow, a former Google product manager. "She loves new ideas and finding better ways to do things." According to the Mayer colleague at the time of work, Mayer is as confident leading a headstrong team of male engineers as she is on the front cover of an upmarket glamour magazine. Vogue profiled her in 2009.
In 2010, Mayer was put in charger of the company's plateauing maps and location products, including Google Places and Street View. Later Larry Page was appointed for CEO.
Yahoo appoint Mayer as CEO. She has become succeed to light the path for the future female engineers and scientists.
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