Marissa Mayer

Today in Tech: Yahoo's Marissa Mayer spurs 18-month stock high

Also: Why Intel's outgoing CEO won't be remembered for mobile; tablet options causing shopping confusion.

Yahoo shares reach 18-month high as investors warm to new CEO [REUTERS]

"Money managers are staring to want to own this name again," said Colin Gillis, an analyst with BGC Partners.

"For the amount of traffic they have, and the assets they have, they should be able to squeeze some value out of that," Gillis said, referring to Yahoo. MORE

Today in Tech: How ads became Amazon's newest weapon

Also: Why Marissa Mayer took the reins at Yahoo; Bravo's Silicon Valley reality show unleashed. 

Can Marissa Mayer really have it all? [NEW YORK MAGAZINE]

Mayer was bruised in that reshuffling. For about a dozen years she had presided over "search"—which is to say everything the user saw, felt, and experienced when navigating Google—but now she was shunted away from that core business and put in charge of "local"—maps, restaurant recommendations, and the MORE

Where the women are: Online

As the Web grows more social and more mobile, women - entrepreneurs and users - are heeding the call.

By Jennifer Alsever, contributor

FORTUNE -- It's a woman's World Wide Web. Today's online experience is increasingly about connecting with people and sharing information -- and female users have responded enthusiastically. Some 56% of Twitterers are women; they are more than half of Facebook subscribers; and they make up 70% of Pinterest's MORE

Today in Tech: How Marissa Mayer wants to remake Yahoo

* Pulse, the mobile news reader co-founded by grad students Aksay Kothari and Ankit Gupta, is coming to the desktop. Earlier this morning, the startup launched an HTML5-based version of their reader geared for larger screens. "People who have been using Pulse on their mobile devices have been like, why I can't use it on my computer?" Kothari told Fortune. Pulse now reports over 15 million users, with 250 million-plus stories read through MORE

Today in Tech: Ex-Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson on life post-Yahoo

Why companies are offering employees unlimited vacation; Scott Thompson opens up on life post-Yahoo. 

The story of Steve Jobs: An inspiration or a cautionary tale? [WIRED]

Join or get out of the way—it's a phrase that sums up what Jobs' life has taught his admirers today. Andrew Hargadon, a professor at UC Davis and author of How Breakthroughs Happen: The Surprising Truth About How Companies Innovate, points out that Jobs' brashness has helped inspire MORE

Today in Tech: Just how much is Yahoo's new CEO making, exactly?

Also: Marissa Mayer's memo to Yahoo employees. And is popular crowd-funding startup Kickstarter in the business of 'selling dreams'?

Yahoo CEO Mayer to get close to $60 million in compensation [ALLTHINGSD]

Yahoo revealed in a regulatory filing that it could be paying its new CEO Marissa Mayer a total of close to $60 million to turn the company around. The mega-sum includes salary, equity grants, stock options, a make-whole payment for the Google MORE

Fast forwarding women in tech

Few women have joined or founded startups and gained the kind of experience that enables their careers to explode like Marissa Mayer's. Here are specific recommendations on accelerating the pace of women in high-tech.

By Jack Hidary and Cindy Padnos

The announcement Monday that Yahoo (YHOO) selected Marissa Mayer as its new chief is a great signal for Silicon Valley. Marissa joined Google (GOOG) as its 20th employee back in 1999 MORE

Today in Tech: Yahoo has a new CEO, and she's pregnant

Also: The fireworks fly between Peter Thiel and Eric Schmidt at this year's Brainstorm Tech conference. 

New Yahoo CEO Mayer is pregnant [FORTUNE]

Marissa Mayer, the Google executive who today was named Yahoo's 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, three hours after Yahoo announced her appointment. "He moves around a lot. My MORE

Today in Tech: Brainstorm Tech starts, Borders closes

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* Fortune's annual Brainstorm Tech conference kicks off later this afternoon with the day's speakers including Twitter CEO Dick Costolo, Dreamworks Animation CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg, Square COO Keith Rabois, and Stephanie Tilenius, Google VP of Commerce and Payments. Keep checking the Web site throughout the day for the MORE

Marissa Mayer: More Google Maps users on phones than PCs by June

Google's new Maps and Local VP Mayer says users are moving to mobile fast and Google will have layers of useful information waiting for them.

FORTUNE -- Despite a recent management reorganization at Google (GOOG), Marissa Mayer, now vice president of Maps and Local, says it's business of usual, describing the company atmosphere as "optimistic." At TechCrunch Disrupt in New York City, Mayer focused on the progress of her division, and MORE