Sentence examples for marissa from inspiring English sources
proper noun
A contraction of Maria Lisa or Maria Luisa, though sometimes regarded as a re-interpretation of the name Melissa as a homophone in another European language.
"Women who get to the top – the Marissa Mayers [Yahoo's CEO] and Sheryl Sandbergs – seem to be those who have put their careers first and now expect others to do the same," says Eileen Gunn, mother of a seven-year-old daughter and founder of FamiliesGo, an online media company focused on family travel.
Investors expressed confidence, however, in Marissa Mayer's strategy (she took over as chief executive a year ago), pushing the share price to a five-year high.From dreams to nightmaresInvestigators looking at the cause of a fire on a parked Boeing Dreamliner at Heathrow airport found no initial evidence that the jet's batteries were the source.
MARISSA ALEXANDER says she feared for her life.
On May 20th Marissa Mayer, Yahoo's chief executive, said Tumblr had 300m users.
MARISSA Kucuk was a little old Armenian lady who lived on her own in Samatya (pictured above), a picturesque neighbourhood of Istanbul where Christians and Muslims used to rub along peacefully.
Yahoo at one time stood atop the Internet but the ability of its workers to do their job from anywhere may be backfiring on productivity, which prompted Marissa Mayer's new edict against telecommuting.There are genuine benefits of social media and the related hardware.
The disappointing news comes after Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer has been on a buying spree, hoping to turn the fortunes of one of the first generation of internet giants as it has struggled to keep up with Facebook and Google.
In 2013, Elon Musk bought a mansion opposite his own mansion, and Yahoo's Marissa Mayer snapped up a funeral home just down from her home.
Marissa Jackson is a law clerk on the US court of appeals and on the advisory board of the website CompareAfrique.
Now it is back in the headlines.On November 8th All Things D, a tech-industry website, reported that Yahoo staff are increasingly unhappy about a quarterly performance review introduced last year by the new boss, Marissa Mayer.
Silicon Valley has its share of high-profile women, such as Yahoo's Marissa Mayer, Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg and Hewlett-Packard's Meg Whitman.
