A day after a 'blood bath' of layoffs, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer turns focus to mobile growth

Just a day after laying off dozens of employees from its content business, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer shifted her focus to mobile, underscoring the company's commitment to continue growing its mobile business going forward.

During her keynote speech at Yahoo's Mobile Developers Conference on Thursday, Mayer touted some of the growth numbers Yahoo's mobile business saw last year, and asked mobile developers to keep working on Yahoo's mobile platform.

Yahoo now has over 600 million monthly users on mobile, more than half of its 1 billion total users, helping generate a little over $1 billion in mobile alone, Mayer said. The Yahoo App Publishing platform, which launched last year, is already on a $200 million revenue run rate, while Flurry, its mobile app monetization and analytics platform, now has more than 800,000 apps working on top of it.

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