female leaders is now potentially on the market. In his book, "Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo," Nicholas Carlson describes how Mayer's tenure at Google gave her talents that Uber might benefit from, including a tight system for hiring and liasing between workers and executive Larry Page.
A New York Times Magazine feature by Nicholas Carlson from 2014 goes into great detail about the amount of work she has done to move things into the mobile era and to make the products Yahoo offers much better.
Date: Dec 10, 2015
Category: Business
Source: Google
Was Dick Costolo Ever Right CEO For Twitter? Who Do They Hire Now ...
These are several of the questions I tackled in a podcast I recorded yesterday with Nicholas Carlson, Chief Correspondent of Business Insider, who has done a lot of reporting on Twitter and the current CEO search going on over there.
Date: Jul 01, 2015
Category: Business
Source: Google
Marissa Mayer's big moment at Yahoo is finally upon us
Investors are agitating for change. Some even want a merger with AOL.And thanks to thejournalist Nicholas Carlsons new book about Yahoo, fresh details about Mayers personality, management style and overarching philosophy(paywall) are doing the rounds.
Its a great tale, but this "great man/woman" theory of change is pretty rare in real life, notes Nicholas Carlson in his new book, Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!. "Its doubtful whether anyone could save the company given its massive issues," he tells me. Indeed, sometimes the narrative
And now, according to business news reporter Nicholas Carlson -- whose book on Mayer and her time at Yahoo comes out next week -- Mayer and her top management believe purchasing a cable network may just be the get-out-of-jail ticket that Yahoo needs.
Date: Jan 02, 2015
Category: Business
Source: Google
Cyanogen gets $23 million in funding, Google gets a headache
"This news has to make Google wary," notes Business Insider's Nicholas Carlson. "Ever since it backed its search business out of China over hacking accusations several years ago, it's main exposure to the Chinese consumer has been through Android." Indeed, Cyanogen plans to use part of its newly-acq
According to a story published on September 25 by Nicholas Carlson of Business Insider, Mayer plans to work very hard at getting better at personalization and mobile. So lets say that any deal shes hoping to put together with Facebook will also be focused on those things.