When Marissa Mayer Became CEO Of Yahoo She Let Thousands Of Employees Ditch Their BlackBerrys For 'Real' Smartphones (YHOO)

Shortly after Marissa Mayer became CEO of Yahoo in 2012, she instituted a new smartphone policy for employees. In his book on Yahoo and Mayer's tenure as CEO there, Nicholas Carlson writes that Yahoo employees were still issued BlackBerrys instead of modern smartphones like the iPhone or Samsung Galaxy S3. Mayer believed Yahoo needed to transition into a "mobile first" company, and its employees should be using the popular devices apps were designed to run on. Here's how Mayer broke the news to ...