Marissa Mayer to resign from Yahoo after Verizon acquisition is completed

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will resign from the board of the rump of Yahoo when Verizon finally completes its acquisition of the company’s web portal, search engine, email service and news services. Verizon will merge the Yahoo-branded web properties with AOL, which includes advertising sales platforms and websites such as The Huffington Post , TechCrunch and Engadget .