{"id":20803,"date":"2012-08-28T08:34:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-28T06:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=20803"},"modified":"2012-08-28T08:42:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-28T06:42:03","slug":"yahoo-nabs-former-amazon-exec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/20803\/yahoo-nabs-former-amazon-exec\/","title":{"rendered":"Yahoo nabs former Amazon exec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo Inc named veteran executive Kathy Savitt its chief marketing officer on Monday in the latest move by new CEO Marissa Mayer to overhaul her top leadership team.<\/p>\n<p>Savitt, a former marketing executive at Amazon.com and American Eagle Outfitters, most recently founded Lockerz, a social commerce website that let online shoppers share links to clothing and accessory deals.<\/p>\n<p>In a shock move, Mayer, 37, took the reins as Yahoo CEO in July after spending more than a decade as a high-profile employee at rival Google Inc.<\/p>\n<p>Since her arrival, top Yahoo executives including interim CEO Ross Levinsohn have departed while Mayer began recruiting her deputies.<\/p>\n<p>Lockerz said Monday that Chief Operating Officer Mark Stabingas will replace Savitt as CEO.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/19077\/yahoos-interim-ceo-calls-it-quits\/\"><strong>Yahoo&#8217;s interim CEO calls it quits<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/18012\/mayer-to-bring-stability-to-yahoo-say-analysts\/\"><strong>Mayer to bring stability to Yahoo say analysts<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"BusinessTech Article\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/internet\/17936\/google-executive-marissa-mayer-the-next-yahoo-ceo\/\"><strong>Google executive Marissa Mayer the next Yahoo CEO<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo Inc named veteran executive Kathy Savitt its chief marketing officer on Monday in the latest move by new CEO Marissa Mayer to overhaul her top leadership team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9882],"tags":[25,657,3951,3562,147],"class_list":["post-20803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-amazon","tag-kathy-savitt","tag-marissa-mayer","tag-yahoo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20803"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20819,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20803\/revisions\/20819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}