Since taking over Yahoo back in July 2012, Marissa Mayer has been on a mission to transform the company into a modern web power player. Yahoo, with its massive and diverse array of content, is a portal for millions of people on the web. Whether you're interested in checking out share prices, reading up on your favorite NBA team, or entering a fantasy football league, you can do it, and much more, through Yahoo.

With that said, Yahoo continues to get crushed in search and email and is seen as something of a dinosaur in the age of Web 2.0. Ms. Mayer's job is to make Yahoo cutting-edge again. As the youngest female Fortune 500 CEO and the 20th employee of Google, it would seem as though she's an excellent pick for the job.

This week, Marissa Mayer made a striking and attention-getting move to help expedite Yahoo's trip towards the cutting-edge. The company acquired Summly, a two year old startup whose founder is only 17 years old...

Yahoo, the world's largest internet "portal" made a bit of a splash yesterday when it announced that it was scalping Google's Marissa Mayer to fill its recently-vacated CEO position.

Per Bloomberg, the 37 year old Mayer joined Google in 1999 as its 20th employee. She is credited with maintaining the company’s spartan home page for a decade and overseeing such products as Gmail, Google News, and image, book and product search.

The mission she's accepted as CEO will be twofold...

Given the current lofty valuations for tech companies and intellectual property rights have you ever given thought to how much all of your digital property is worth? More importantly, do you have a plan for your hard drives and online accounts for when your time has passed?

Needless to say, unless you want to be turned into a performing hologram one day, you should make a plan for all of your assets. Do you want to bequeath your emails, photos, and financial models? What about your online search history and that embarrassingly large porn collection?

Clearly there is a line to be drawn somewhere and if you don’t draw it yourself, what should the default/standard be?

Many service companies already have certain policies in place to deal with the deceased. Facebook allows relatives to close an account or turn it into a memorial page. Google provides copies of emails to an executor of an estate.

In a move that went largely unnoticed with all of the other market news going on, Microsoft hiked its dividend last week by 25% (from $.16 to $.20 per share) in an effort to boost its stock.

If ever there was a major stock that fit Gordon Gekko's "dog with fleas" description, MSFT would be it. It's nicknamed Mister Softee for a reason; namely, its stock price is exactly where it was five years ago. Zero progress.

When it announced its first dividend around 2003, it was in part an admission of reality--the stellar growth from 1986-2000 was no more, and investors needed more convincing to buy MSFT stock.