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...The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.4 per cent to 16,370.96, while the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index slid 0.3 per cent to 4,805.76....
...Third Point is known for its aggressive campaigns to shake up target companies, famously engineering the installation of Marissa Mayer as chief executive of Yahoo....
...Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer, Google’s Eric Schmidt and Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg are all in this group....
...The S&P 500 climbed 0.42 per cent to close at 1,981.57 while the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.45 per cent to 17,138.20....
...Starting a business from home has never been easier,” said Emma Jones, founder of small business network Enterprise Nation, who wrote the book Spare Room StartUp in 2008....
...Marissa Mayer, chief executive of Yahoo, said that trust in her company and other internet companies had been damaged by the disclosures....
...Marissa Mayer, Yahoo chief executive, said late last year the company would fight hard to preserve the trust users place in it....
...An Alibaba initial public offering would give Marissa Mayer, the Yahoo chief executive, the opportunity to start shrinking the stake in a company some believe will command a market value of more than $150bn...
...Marissa Mayer, chief executive of Yahoo, on Tuesday unveiled changes to the company’s email platform designed to compete with Google’s popular Gmail....
...The move marked the most aggressive step taken by Marissa Mayer, chief executive of Yahoo, to boost growth at the company since she took over last year....
...The Nasdaq added 0.3 per cent to 3,610.00, and the Dow Jones Industrial Index gained 0.1 per cent to 15,470.52....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average also added 1 per cent to 14,910.14, inching back toward the 15,000 level that was also breached after last week’s Fed announcement....
...The S&P 500 rose 0.2 per cent to a record close of 1,692.09, while the Dow Jones was off fractionally at 15,543.74....
...The move represents the first big bet by Yahoo’s new CEO Marissa Meyer. Tumblr has 100m users but very little revenue....
...(Financial Times) COMMENT AND CURIOS - Marissa Mayer and the return of Taylorism. (Financial Times) - Jeffrey Sachs says Obama had a Faustian bargain on tax and expenditure....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed up 0.9 per cent to 13,207.95 on the week and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite index outperformed, climbing 1.8 per cent to 3,020.86....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.9 per cent to 12,822.57 on Friday and was 0.3 higher on the week. The energy sector led weekly gains with the S&P energy index up 2.5 per cent over the week....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 1.8 per cent to 13,102.53. Coca-Cola , the world’s largest beverage market holder by revenues, lost 1.7 per cent to $36.61....
...The company reported its first quarterly results under its new chief executive Marissa Mayer....
...Yahoo shares traded in a narrow range and closed 0.4 per cent lower at $15.61 after recently appointed chief executive Marissa Mayer reshuffled her management team....
...(Dow Jones) Saudi Arabia offers more oil: Saudi Arabia has offered its main customers in the US, Europe and Asia extra oil supplies through the end of the year, a sign the world’s largest exporter is...
...The internet company’s shares jumped 2 per cent in after-market trade on Monday after the group appointed former Google executive Marissa Mayer as chief executive and president....
...In contrast, Yahoo gained 2 per cent in after-hours trading to $15.97 as the company named Marissa Mayer as president and chief executive....
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