Geee Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 Daily Caller: Major Obama donor and former Google executive Marissa Mayer will take the helm at Yahoo! as the company’s new CEO Tuesday, Yahoo! announced late Monday afternoon. Mayer was Google’s 20th employee and the company’s first female engineer, joining the company in 1999. She is credited as the genius behind several of Google’s most successful products, including Gmail, Google’s homepage and Google News. More recently, she was responsible for Google Maps, Street View and Google Earth. Mayer will replace Yahoo! interim CEO Ross Levinsohn, making her the company’s fifth CEO in five years. She will also join the company’s board of directors. In May, Neilsen listed the Yahoo-ABC News Network as the leading news site on the Web in the U.S., making Mayer the head of the largest news site on the Web. She is also a major donor to both President Barack Obama and the Democratic Party. According to the Center for Responsive Politics, in April 2011 Mayer donated two separate amounts of $2,500 dollars to Obama, and one large sum of $30,800 to the Democratic National Committee. Data from political data firm Aristotle, as reported by the Huffington Post, reveals that, in the second quarter of 2011, Mayer also contributed $35,800 to Obama Victory Fund 2012. Asked whether Mayer’s political leanings would affect the editorial direction of Yahoo!, neither Yahoo! nor Mayer returned TheDC’s request for comment by the time of publication Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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