New Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer wants to give every Yahoo a new smartphone. And not just your everyday Blackberry, she’s willing to give the company the choice of the new iPhone 5, Galaxy sIII and selected HTC smartphones. A choice not on the list, you guessed it RIM’s Blackberry. Those guys need a fix fast
Not content with free food, now Marissa Mayer — Yahoo’s new CEO — is giving all employees brand newsmartphones.
And not just any smartphone either. According to Business Insider, Mayer is going to allow employees to choose from an iPhone 5, Galaxy S3, a few HTC devices or Nokia’s Lumia 920.
Notably absent from the list: BlackBerry. Yahoo is going to move its users off of BlackBerry devices in 22 countries and onto something more consumer friendly.
Mayer is encouraging her staff to think and act more like Yahoo’s users. In fact, that was a big part of the rationale for the new smartphone program, aptly named, “Yahoo! Smart Phones, Smart Fun.”
In a memo sent out to staff members about the new plan, it was explained that using the most popular consumer phones would allow employees to “think and work as the majority of [Yahoo’s] users do.”
[mashable]
