Yahoo!’s new policy is a huge improvement over most American companies. By Rachel Lehmann-Haupt (Editor, Women 2.0) We’re happy to hear that future Yahoo! employees will now get double time off for a new baby. A new mother can take up to sixteen weeks of paid leave and a new father can take up to [...]
Posts Tagged "Yahoo"
Marissa Mayer’s Real Elephant: China
April 25, 2013 – 11:00 am
Because she’s a female CEO, everyone focused on the fact that she was being “anti-feminist.” If Mayer were a man, the narrative would be about the business strategy to bring Yahoo back to life. By Rachel Lehmann-Haupt (Editor, Women 2.0) Marissa Mayer jokingly broke her silence about the Yahoo! work from home policy at the [...]
Tech Women in 2013 TIME 100, Because Software is Eating the World
April 19, 2013 – 7:00 am
What do the 100 most influential people in the world, as named by TIME magazine, have in common? Impact. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) TIME magazine’s annual 100 list of the world’s most influential people is out. Each individual is described in accolades by another influential person in a postcard moment. Here [...]
Female Founders to Watch: Seattle Edition
April 5, 2013 – 7:00 am
Founder Friday is coming to Seattle to mix and mingle with the city’s amazing female tech talent. Here are a few women to watch. By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0) Seattle may be best known to outsiders for Starbucks, 90s grunge or sudsy TV doctor dramas, but the home of Microsoft and Amazon also has [...]
Are Many Female Execs Bad Role Models?
April 4, 2013 – 11:00 am
Female execs in finance fear they haven’t done enough to make their industry more friendly to women, reports the New York Times. Could the same be said of tech? By Jessica Stillman (Editor, Women 2.0) It’s wonderful when women reach the top of traditionally male-dominated industries, but do they have a responsibility to make the [...]
This Isn’t a Girl Thing
March 15, 2013 – 8:00 am
Marissa Mayer’s decision to bring all Yahoo! employees back to the office has nothing to do with gender — it’s all about business and reinvigorating a stumbling behemoth. By Shaherose Charania (Co-Founder & CEO, Women 2.0) I had a chat with my friends at Bloomberg last week. They were perplexed that the media was still [...]
PITCH NYC 2012 Finalist Alike, Founded By CEO Maria Renhui Zhang, Acquired By Yahoo!
February 12, 2013 – 12:21 pm
Yahoo! snaps up female-founded mobile startup Alike today for an undisclosed sum – the team will be joining Yahoo! mobile in California. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Today Yahoo! acquired Alike, a mobile company founded by CEO Maria Renhui Zhang. The app focused on personalization by using the restaurants and places you [...]
PITCH NYC 2012: Meebo CTO Sandy Jen Talks About Rethinking The Startup Exit
November 14, 2012 – 9:15 am
Live from PITCH NYC 2012 Conference & Competition – By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) At the 2012 PITCH NYC Conference, Meebo CTO and co-founder Sandy Jen talks about hearing the words “What is your exit?” over and over again. She now hears instead the question, “What kind of company are you building?” [...]
(Infographic) Ada Lovelace Day Celebrates Women Leaders In Tech
October 16, 2012 – 3:00 am
The goal of Ada Lovelace Day is to create new role models for girls and women in these male-dominated fields by raising the profile of other women in STEM. By Angie Chang (Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief, Women 2.0) Today is Ada Lovelace Day – October 16, 2012 is about blogging and sharing stories of women, from [...]
Dear Marissa: Think Different. (Pink Is The New Purple)
July 30, 2012 – 11:00 am
By narrowing its focus to women, Yahoo can beat the pants off its competitors. By Dave McClure (Founder & Partner, 500 Startups) I’d like to write a different open letter to Marissa Mayer that plays to both her strengths, as well as those of Yahoo. It’s a bit off the wall, but if you think [...]
