Is it time to YAHOO??

More Yahoo departures, Mayer expected to pull from Google

Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal

Date: Friday, August 3, 2012, 6:29am PDT

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All Things Digital's Kara Swisher predicts that Yahoo's leader and former Googler Marissa Mayer is likely to pull talent from Google to build her team at Yahoo. 

With Yahoo Inc. former interim CEO Ross Levinsohn's departure from the company, additional exits have followed, All Things Digital's Kara Swisher reports.

They include Adam Bechtel, the VP of infrastructure at Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO), reportedly taking an unspecified job at Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL). And Jonathan Katzman, a product specialist who was part of the social efforts across Yahoo, taking a chief product officer position at the Minerva Project.

In addition, sales executive Marc Grabowski left the Sunnyvale-based digital media company without other plans, Swisher reports.

She predicts that the company's new leader and former Googler Marissa Mayer will continue to pull from talent from Mountain View-based Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG). Mayer has already hired former Google PR executive Anne Espiritu, who will work in corporate communications at Yahoo.

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To put this in perspective:  When your sports team has been consistently losing for a decade plus and the causes are not due to uncontrollable events (Oakland Raiders for example), losing those starting players couldn't come soon enough! :-)