8. Yahoo Mail redesign Marissa Mayer's tenure as CEO of Yahoo has benefited the company immensely in order to bring around the company's corporate culture, rejuvenate its products, and refresh its image. But a new redesign of Yahoomail and the long-running outage for some some Yahoo e-mail users is casting a dark shadow over a perceived turnaround at the once-mighty Internet player. Announced last December, the first e-mail overhaul rolled out to all users in June. The reception was lukewarm because it was just a cosmetic redesign.