SF News Yahoo Spent $70K To Dress Execs As Wizard Of Oz Characters At Company Party, And Marissa Mayer Was Dorothy Somewhere over the rainbow in Marin County, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer dressed herself as Dorothy and her staff as the rest of the characters from “The Wizard of Oz” in an elaborate, expensive
SF News Yahoo! Goes After Former Former Employee For Leaking Secrets Yahoo! has filed a lawsuit against a former staffer who, they say, broke her confidentiality agreement and leaked corporate secrets. The complaint by the tech giant alleges that Cecile Lal, a former senior
SF News Should Twitter Buy Yahoo? If you're reading this site, it's likely you have an idea of what Twitter does. Yahoo is a little harder to figure out (even, it appears, to those inside the organization). So why
SF News Scathing NYT Profile Says Marissa Mayer Messed Up With Yahoo Those who aren't hanging on to Yahoo stock may not have been paying attention when their stock price tumbled this past July, and again in September. Both tumbles, which it's since recovered from,
SF News Disrupt The Halls: Pics From 2014's Excessive Tech Holiday Parties It's not just about who has the bigger tree and the better eggnog. Tech companies in SF are, once again, competing to delight their workers in a holiday party proxy war. Yahoo recently
SF News Day Around The Bay: World AIDS Day Today is World AIDS Day, and the Chronicle has some columns from the epidemic and the first day of remembrance in 1988. [Chronicle] A man died in an SF county jail on October
SF News The Feds Threatened To Fine Yahoo $250,000 A Day If It Didn't Hand Over Users' Data Yahoo is talking about its fight against the federal government’s surveillance of Internet users — a battle it ultimately lost in secret court hearings in Washington. The company's general counsel announced today in
Arts & Entertainment AT&T Park Follies: Every Giants Home Run To Be Followed By Yahoo Yodel [Update] The fine folks at AT&T Park invited SFist to their annual Media Day today. And what a day it was. When I wasn't fixated on the epic Leland Yee saga, I
SF News Police Need Help Finding Oakland Man Missing Since New Year's Day Luke Arduini went missing on New Year's Day. The photo of him wearing the black tie, taken on New Year's Eve, is the most recent. He's 28 y/o, works at Yahoo, lives
SF News Yahoo Unveils New, Improved Logo Ever since Marissa Mayer became Yahoo's CEO 14 months ago, she's already completed several extreme makeovers: a new Flickr (which we like very much), a new policy that forces employees to come in
Arts & Entertainment Yahoo To Showcase 30 Logo Thingies, Debut Another Purple Design Perhaps spurred but its far more logo-curious neighbor Google, Yahoo is launching a new logo after a 30 day countdown that will feature one iteration of its hideous purple logo per day. Why
SF News Yahoo Moving Into The Chronicle Building, Hopes To Bring Back Flashy Billboards Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has been working hard to make over her company's image from aging web dinosaur to hip new tech property. As part of that plan, the Sunnyvale company is reportedly
SF News Yahoo Announces Plan To 'Make Flickr Awesome Again' At a pun-filled press conference in Manhattan this afternoon, Marissa Mayer brushed aside this weekend's big acquisition to focus on Yahoo's other brand that "dropped the e." After a quick pat on the
SF News Yahoo Officially Announces $1.1 Billion Tumblr Acquisition, "Promises Not To Screw It Up" Hey, everyone, now that Yahoo is going to acquire Tumblr for $1.1 billion in cash, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has a Tumblr blog. She wrote this morning, "I’m delighted to announce
SF News Yahoo Will Buy 'Hipster Blogging Platform' Tumblr For $1.1 Billion [Update] UPDATE: Yep, it's official. Guess there will be big news at Yahoo's Monday product event in New York: The Wall Street Journal reports, "The Yahoo board has approved a deal to pay $1.
SF News Yahoo's Marissa Mayer Births New Maternity Leave Policies At Yahoo, where CEO Marissa Mayer famously bailed on her own maternity leave and then immediately told everyone to start getting their asses to work, the company has plopped out a new set
SF News Marissa Mayer To Yahoo Employees: Come To Work Or GTF Out Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer isn't just unhappy with her company's on-hold music. Now she's had it up to here with remote workers who don't come in to the office but still draw payroll
Arts & Entertainment Marissa Mayer Calls Yahoo's On-Hold Music 'Garbage' While on hold during a fourth-quarter-earnings conference call, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer complained about her company's on-hold music, not realizing her mic was on. According to the NY Post (bible of accuracy), Mayer
SF News Marissa Mayer Has Baby Boy! Former Googler and current Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer had a baby boy over the weekend (a Libra!), making the wee one her and husband Zach Bogue's first child. Though they have yet to
SF News Marissa Mayer's Pay Package Is Larger Than Your Average Valley CEO's In addition to being able to birth live young, Yahoo's new den mother has another thing she can hold over most other Tech CEOs in Silicon Valley: her salary. In a regulatory filing
SF News Marissa Mayer's First Day at Yahoo Involved Google Balloons, Layette Marissa Mayer's first day at Yahoo on Tuesday came replete with a layette (above) gifted to her by her new worker bees, and giant balloon bouquets (below) from former Google colleagues. "13 balloons
SF News Marissa Mayer's Other Big Announcement: I'm Pregnant Hot off the heels of Marissa Mayer's big news, the freshly annointed Yahoo CEO made another glass ceiling-shattering announcement yesterday evening: she's roughly seven-months pregnant. As the former Google VP revealed to Fortune,
SF News Marissa Mayer To Head Yahoo Well, this is shocking: Noted Google VP Marissa Mayer, 37, was just anointed CEO of Yahoo. New York Times reports: "The appointment of Ms. Mayer, who was employee No. 20 at Google and
SF News Yahoo CEO Steps Down, Announces Thyroid Cancer Diagnosis After dodging accusations of resume padding, Yahoo's barely-there CEO Scott Thompson announced over the weekend that he is stepping down from the post he's held for barely four months. While Yahoo declined to
SF News Yahoo CEO Still Not Sure Who Changed His Resume, Spurned Bartz Spits Acid After Yahoo stakeholders at activist hedge fund Third Point called out Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson for a padded resume last week, Thompson has taken to pleading ignorance in the matter. His latest defense
