Marissa Mayer, the Google vice president
tapped today to lead Yahoo, announced this
evening that she is pregnant. Mayer, who was a surprise choice over interim CEO Ross Levinsohn, announced on Twitter this evening that she and her
husband are expecting a boy in October. Another piece of good news today - @ zackbogue and I are expecting a new baby boy! postcards.blogs.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/16/
may... — marissamayer (@marissamayer) July 17, 2012 Mayer, 37, told Fortune that she revealed her pregnancy to Yahoo's board of directors
late last month and that none of the
directors raised any concerns. "They
showed their evolved thinking," she said. Mayer, who starts her new job at Yahoo
tomorrow, expects her maternity leave to be
brief. "My maternity leave will be a few weeks long
and I'll work throughout it," she told Fortune. Her husband, Zack Bogue, is a co-founder
of private-equity firm Montara Capital
Partners. He recently launched an
investment fund called Data Collective. The
couple were married in December 2009 on
Treasure Island in the San Francisco Bay. Mayer, Google's first female engineer and
the No. 20 employee hired overall,
announced her departure today for the top
job at struggling Web pioneer Yahoo. During
her tenure at the Web giant, Mayer
supervised the fast-growing search business that proved key to Google's growth during
the past decade. But as Yahoo's fifth CEO in five years, she
will be tasked with trying to reinvigorate a
Web pioneer that has struggled to compete
for ad dollars with Google and Facebook. During the first quarter of 2012, Yahoo
posted revenue of $1.077 billion,
representing just a 1 percent increase over
the year-earlier period. That relatively flat
revenue figure resulted from a 4 percent
decrease in display advertising revenue and an 8 percent increase in search
revenue