Searching for upturn in results at Yahoo!

Having defected from Google to head up its struggling rival, Marissa Mayer faces a daunting challenge to revive moribund tech giant Yahoo!, but her first set of quarterly results gives some cause for optimism, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

MARISSA Mayer was one of Google’s earliest appointees, the 14th person to join the company, and she rose to become a key member of the company’s inner circle.

In July, she defected to run Google’s struggling rival, Yahoo!, and caused a bit of a sensation in the technology world.