Yahoo! (YHOO) CEO Mayer Discusses Early Days on Job; Calls Apple 'Gold Standard' of Design - InvestingChannel

Yahoo! (YHOO) CEO Mayer Discusses Early Days on Job; Calls Apple ‘Gold Standard’ of Design

There is huge opportunity in personalizing search;

There is room for different companies to develop and each will do so differently;

Big search innovations with be coming in the next three to five years;

She noted that “user data belongs to the end user’;

Users should be able to move data between platforms;

Yahoo! will focus on strong partnerships moving forward;

Sees Facebook (Nasdaq: FB) as predominant social platform;

Yahoo! works will Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL), Google (Nasdaq: GOOG), and Facebook currently;

Yahoo! has a strong corporate culture and they need to amplify it;

Some of the company’s products need to be modernized;

Mayer was focused on people and building a strong team for the first 10 months on the job;

Apple is the ‘gold standard’ in design and she spent a lot of time thinking about design; and

She also is spending a lot of time on location technology.