Mayer’s telecommuting ban may harm Yahoo
A recent decision by Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer ’97 M.S. ’99 to implement a ban on telecommuting—precluding employees from working from home—may have detrimental effects… Continue Reading »
Marissa Mayer
Stanford alumni fill Crunchies finals as founders, CEOs
The 6th Annual Crunchies Awards, a technology industry awards ceremony co-hosted this year by TechCrunch, GigaOm and VentureBeat, takes place on Jan. 31 at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco. Twenty Crunchies categories will be awarded, with numerous companies founded or led by Stanford alumni nominated as finalists for major categories.
Stakes high for Silicon Valley this election
Silicon Valley and Washington D.C. are 3,000 miles apart, but policy and economics tie them closely together. Though technology policy and regulation rarely make it… Continue Reading »
Marissa Mayer ’97 becomes CEO of Yahoo
Formerly vice president of local, maps and location services at Google, Marissa Mayer B.S. ’97, M.S. ’99 has been named Yahoo’s new CEO.
Tech companies wield influence at Stanford
Public scrutiny over a report confirming that Google Inc. spent $5.4 million on lobbying in Washington D.C. in the first three quarters of 2011 has raised awareness among students and faculty about the influence that Google and other high-tech companies wield at Stanford.
Humanities, tech meet at BiblioTech conference
Silicon Valley business leaders and Stanford humanities scholars convened on Wednesday for BiblioTech, a conference looking to strengthen ties between the two groups as the nationwide discussion about the relevance of the humanities — and the value of a humanities Ph.D. — continues.
BASES hosts entrepreneurship conference for start-ups
One hundred students, hailing from 26 different universities, arrived on the Farm on Thursday to attend a four-day entrepreneurship conference.