Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Speech at CES 2014

Many people gathered to hear the speech of Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo at Consumer Electronics Show CES at Las Vegas, Nevada. She unveiled new mission of Yahoo that is to create, simplify, summarize and personalize the massive information on the web today. Hilton Theatre was totally packed with hundreds to evidence the future plans of Yahoo.

Marissa Mayer was not the only one on stage at the LVH Theater. She was joined by David Karp, CEO of Tumblr, cast members of Saturday Night Live John Legend and Katie Couric along with David Pogue, former New York Times technology columnist. It was a strong speech from Mayer as she was on stage after a long gap.

In her speech at CES, Mayer mentioned about a massive shift to mobile industry. Yahoo is throwing its chips into the mobile game and they recently climber to 400 million monthly users and company is expecting huge climb by the year 2017 through connected devices. In a talk to USA Today, Mayer mentioned about making Flickr awesome again at the announcement of the acquisition of Tumblr into the company.

Marissa Mayer was very curious about Yahoo News Digest and made a strong pitch for commitment of yahoo to News in tablets and Smartphone. She also introduced and explained the role of Katie Couric, who recently joined company. David Pogue showcased the digital magazine, Yahoo Tech. For this year, Yahoo will be focusing on video content creation and curation. Marissa Mayer has been roaring success as CEO for Yahoo for last one year.

A successful and an inspiring keynote by Yahoo CEO at the major gadget event clearly indicate that they are not going to fall back. With the announcement of new changes and future plans it seems Yahoo is going to give a tough competition in the category for the toppers.