GOOGLE'S MARISSA MAYER NAMED YAHOO CEO!!!

This is certainly a feat for women all over the world but most especially for women in technology!  According to the new york times,

Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg NewsMarissa Mayer, one of the top executives at Google, will be the new chief of Yahoo.

Marissa Mayer, one of the top executives at Google, will be the next chief executive of Yahoo, making her one of the most prominent women in Silicon Valley and corporate America.

The appointment of Ms. Mayer, who was employee No. 20 at Google and was one of the few public faces of the company, is considered a surprising coup for Yahoo, which has struggled in recent years to attract top flight talent in its battle with competitors like Google and Facebook.

Ms. Mayer, 37, had for years been responsible for the look and feel of Google’s most popular products: the famously unadorned white search homepage, Gmail, Google News and Google Images. More recently, Ms. Mayer, an engineer by training whose first job at Google included computer programming, was put in charge of the company’s location and local services, including Google Maps, overseeing more than 1,000 product managers. She also sat on Google’s operating committee, part of a small circle of senior executives who had the ear of Google’s co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

I personally know Marissa and believe she is definitely going to make an impact on Yahoo! Perhaps now  the site will be less cluttered and more useful. Interesting fact I turned down a rock star internship with yahoo when it was still new to go to summer school!