Marissa Ann Mayer , as well as being recently hired as chief executive officer (CEO) of Yahoo, has launched a program within the company that provides the opportunity for the employees free to choose a smartphone from a fairly heterogeneous devices of the latest generation and among them was also included the Nokia Lumia 920.
"We'd like our employees to have devices similar to our users, so we can think and work as the Majority of our users do."
Employees of Yahoo will be able to choose between a Nokia Lumia 920 , iPhone 5, Samsung Galaxy S3, HTC One X and HTC EVO 4G and LTE tariff plan will include the corresponding voice and data. In addition, dealing a blow to RIM, the new IT policy of Yahoo has decided to stop supporting the Blackberries.
Yahoo is the second large company these days has offered to employees free smartphones.Microsoft recently held a major event within the company in which he announced that employees will receive new PCs, the tablet surface and smartphones Windows Phone 8 .
Below is the internal memo from Yahoo:
We have a really amazing update to share with you today - we're announcing Yahoo! Smart Phones, Smart Fun!, Yahoo is abandoning the blackberries as business phones and is moving towards smartphones in over 22 countries. A few weeks ago, we said we looked at the penetration rates of smartphones globally and we took these indexes into consideration when deciding our business phones. Ideally, we want our employees to have similar devices to our users, so we can think and work like most of our users would.
Going forward, we offer you a choice of devices as well as providing voice and data monthly tariff plans. Smartphones that we include in this program are:
* Apple iPhone 5
* Android:
- Samsung Galaxy S3
- HTC One X
- HTC EVO 4G LTE
*Windows Phone 8 *: - Nokia Lumia 920We begin today and take orders from now.Source businessinsider
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