Google Exec Marissa Mayer Becomes Yahoo Latest CEO

Tuesday, 17 July 2012 | by Pat's Picks

Google executive Marissa Mayer is rolling the dice. She’s just accepted an offer to become the CEO of Yahoo, the seventh chief the company’s had in the last five years. The San Francisco Chronicle says if “she can successfully reinvigorate Yahoo, a task that many short-lived CEOs have failed spectacularly at completing, it would cement her spot among the pantheon of celebrated technology leaders.”

SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle