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Ms. Mayer was hired as chief executive to transform Yahoo from a dull web portal into something new and exciting. But instead of bold, her tenure has been mostly boring.

New services are moving beyond the Facebook approach, with tools to create new content instead of just sharing it.

LOS ANGELES — The world's attention wavered between the tragic and the silly in 2012, and along the way, Web surfers searched in huge numbers to find out about a royal princess, the latest iPad, and...

Ann Romney, wife of Mitt, goes Marie Antoinette one better when she refers to the 99% as "you people". New Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer's penchant for Chihuly glass sculptures, fashion and having the Killers perform live at her wedding are small potatoes compared to the Romneys' Swiss bank accounts, five homes and dressage hobby. You can get anything on the Internet (including your stolen car) forcing malls to get makeovers to compete with online shopping. This is what people are talking about online this week. Catch up with the 99%. Join the conversation.

Yahoo told dozens of employees at 15 digital publications that they were losing their jobs, part of a larger plan to cut the work force by 15 percent.

Marissa Mayer has got to go. That's the whole point of a 99-page presentation submitted today to Yahoo's board. The Golden Girl of tech took over the fledgling business in 2012 to much fanfare.

Being an 'it girl' for tech may help Yahoo change its dated image, but it's not without some controversy.

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer posed for the September issue of Vogue, and guess what? This photo spread isn't causing the backlash we might expect.

Why?

Mayer’s shot is feminine and sensual while still being very corporate, says branding expert Karen Leland. Mayer holds an iPad with her face on it, says Leland, stressing she has a body and a brain. “To me she’s trying to create an integrated message that yes I’m a CEO but I’m also a feminine woman and that makes me powerful.”

When Yahoo's Web 1.0 "fanbase" (i.e., those who grew up watching the Brady Bunch in its first iteration) collides head on with Web 2.0 (Tumblr and microblogging), what will the future be?

The Internet pioneer takes on one of the country’s biggest workplace issues in the hope of fostering more innovation.

For a few hours, Marissa Mayer was the new CEO of Yahoo. She was the high-level, high-profile, ridiculously accomplished Google engineer who suddenly became one of the few women to lead a Fortune 500 company. Then she became known as "That Pregnant Lady." 

Marissa Mayer, who was Google's first female engineer and its 20th employee when she joined that company in 1999,  was named CEO of Yahoo earlier this week. Who exactly is this woman Silicon Valley is raving about. Here are 11 facts about Mayer you might find interesting.