Yahoo Could Make Marissa Mayer One of Top-paid CEOs
LOS ANGELES TIMES: The new chief executive could earn up to $129 million over five years, through salary, cash bonuses and stock awards.

Marissa Mayer,Yahoo Inc.'s new chief executive, could earn up to $129 million over the next five years, making her one of the country's highest-paid CEOs.

The compensation package, which was revealed in a regulatory filing Thursday, demonstrates the lengths to which the ailing technology firm went to lure Mayer from rival Google Inc.

The 37-year-old could make up to $85 million in salary, cash bonuses and stock awards over five years. She also will get $44 million in one-time grants, including a $30-million "retention" stock award and $14 million in restricted stock for forfeiting her current Google stock.

"She's certainly going to be highly compensated if she succeeds," said Colin Gillis, an analyst at BGC Financial. "It's a multibillion-dollar company. If she creates value, it'll be a tiny fraction; if she doesn't, she'll be another one in a long line of Yahoo CEOs who had expensive compensation packages that didn't work out."

Given that much of her pay is coming in the form of restricted stock or options, the ultimate value of the package depends heavily on the performance of Yahoo shares in coming years.

The Sunnyvale, Calif., company needed to offer Mayer generous compensation because "it's not easy to get people to come into the Yahoo mess," said James F. Reda of Gallagher Benefit Services Inc., a human resources consulting firm. However, "if she doesn't perform, the Yahoo board hasn't been too shy of getting rid of people." » | Walter Hamilton and Andrea Chang, Los Angeles Times | Friday, July 20, 2012

Will Marissa Mayer Save Yahoo Or Run It Into the Ground?
FORBES: This is only her first day on the job as CEO of Yahoo! (NASDAQ: YHOO), but Marissa Mayer is already being criticized as an unusual hire with “no real leadership experience.”

“I have to tell you, I don’t know what the Yahoo! board was thinking,” CNBC’s Herb Greenberg ranted last night. “This is a wonderful opportunity for her but this is also a remarkable challenge for someone that has no real leadership experience.”

Mayer, a former Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) executive responsible for the clean look of Google’s homepage, is an engineer and inventor credited with several patents in artificial intelligence and interface design.

Colin Gillis, the senior technology analyst at BGC Partners, told CNBC that Mayer will have “about 100 days” to prove that she is right for the job. » | Louis Bedigian, Contributor | Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Bachelor-Affäre: Yahoo-Chef Thompson muss gehen

SPIEGEL ONLINE: Ein falscher akademischer Titel in seinem Lebenslauf kostet Yahoo-Chef Scott Thompson den Job. Nach Angaben des Konzerns wird er seinen Posten abgeben. Wegen der Affäre stand der Manager bereits seit Tagen in der Kritik.

New York - Der wegen eines geschönten Lebenslaufs in die Kritik geratene Yahoo-Chef Scott Thompson stellt seinen Posten zur Verfügung. Wie der Konzern am Sonntag auf seiner Website bekannt gab, verlässt er das Unternehmen. Sein Nachfolger werde den Angaben zufolge bis auf weiteres der bisherige Leiter des globalen Mediengeschäfts, Ross Levinsohn. » | suc/dpa/dapd | Sonntag, 13. Mai 2012

Microsoft will Yahoo kaufen
NZZ Online: Der amerikanische Softwarekonzern Microsoft will das Online-Unternehmen Yahoo für 44,6 Milliarden Dollar übernehmen. Microsoft will damit seine Position im hart umkämpften Markt von Onlinediensten ausbauen. Die Ankündigung hat den Börsen Schwung verliehen.

(ap/sda/Reuters) Der weltgrösste Softwarekonzern Microsoft will das schwächelnde Online-Unternehmen Yahoo für 44,6 Milliarden Dollar übernehmen. Microsoft will damit seine Position im hart umkämpften Markt der Internet-Werbung ausbauen. Microsoft bietet nach eigenen Angaben von Freitag 31 Dollar pro Yahoo-Aktie, was einen Aufschlag von 62% auf den Schlusskurs vom Donnerstag bedeutet.

Yahoo gilt seit geraumer Zeit als Übernahmekandidat. Das Onlineunternehmen war zwar bald nach der Gründung durch Jerry Yang und seinen Kommilitonen David Filo im Jahr 1995 die Nummer eins im Internet. Inzwischen aber ist Yahoo bei den Werbeeinnahmen längst von Google überholt. Google nimmt in zwei Monaten so viel Geld ein wie Yahoo in einem ganzen Jahr. Microsoft will Yahoo kaufen: Softwarekonzern offeriert knapp 45 Milliarden Dollar >>>

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