Marketplace Tech for Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Yahoo's President and CEO Marissa Mayer was appointed a year ago today. In that time, the former Google executive has been in the news plenty, from ending her company's telecommuting policies to leading the purchase of blogging site Tumblr. So how's she doing? And, there is an immigration debate raging in Washington right now. Even with its own set of highly paid lobbyists, it's unclear if the tech world's hopes for importing more talent from overseas will come true. But there has been some movement in the intense world of live video gaming events.
Yahoo’s President and CEO Marissa Mayer was appointed a year ago today. In that time, the former Google executive has been in the news plenty, from ending her company’s telecommuting policies to leading the purchase of blogging site Tumblr. So how’s she doing? And, there is an immigration debate raging in Washington right now. Even with its own set of highly paid lobbyists, it’s unclear if the tech world’s hopes for importing more talent from overseas will come true. But there has been some movement in the intense world of live video gaming events.
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