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

Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) CEO Marissa Mayer spoke in Davos today, giving more insight into her plans to reinvent itself as more than just a one-hit search wonder as well as expectations for the industry as a whole

The following are paraphrased comments from her interview with Erik Schatzker, from Bloomberg:

• 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.

Again, this is just a brief list of items discussed. The full video is below:

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