Yahoo CEO Mayer to Rebuild Research Group With 50 PhD Hires
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Yahoo! Inc.’s Marissa Mayer is boosting the company’s research unit, which was downsized under her predecessor, as the chief executive officer bets on emerging technologies from big data to artificial intelligence.
Yahoo Labs has hired 30 researchers with PhDs in 2013 and plans to add another 20 by year-end, Mayer said in an interview at the company’s Sunnyvale, California headquarters last week. The group is led by Chief Scientist Ron Brachman, a former scientist at the U.S. agency that helped invent the Internet.