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July 17, 2012 03:18 am GMT

Yahoos Neglected Global Labs Network Might Hold Key To Revival

4649742329_467dea44e7What a time for Marissa Mayer to take control at Yahoo. She'll need all the smarts she can lay her hands on to revive an ailing Yahoo. Which is why any section of Yahoo which is innovating could be a key component of it's future capability - especially if Yahoo is to drag itself out of the race-to-the-bottom media portal strategy which it's been left with.Crucial to that turn-around could be the somewhat forgotten network of Yahoo Labs, scattered around the globe. This network has plenty of talent but it's been somewhat neglected in recent times.That neglect was thrown into sharp relief in March this year when Prabhakar Raghavan, the respected head of Yahoos Labs unit and also head of Yahoo's strategy, left to join the company Mayer just left: Google.

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