‘Marissa Mayer to Rebuild Yahoo Labs With 50 New PhD Hires’ – ‘Mashable’

Douglas MacMillan and Brad Stone say, “Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO)‘s Marissa Mayer is boosting the company’s research unit, which was downsized under her predecessor — betting 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, Calif. 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”.