Summary: <p><a href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/m/marissa_mayer/index.html">Marissa Mayer</a>, the CEO of Yahoo, announced this week that the company will spin off the Chinese e-commerce website Alibaba into a separate corporation. It's an investment now worth nearly $40 billion.</p> <p>Without it, Yahoo will now be a much smaller company that by some calculations is worth less than <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/yahoo-post-alibaba-2015-1">$0</a>.</p> <p>And that might be the best thing for the future of the company, which was once a leading player in Silicon Valley — and Mayer’s plan to turn it around.</p> <p>This week on Money Talking, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/author/nicholas-carlson">Nicholas Carlson</a>, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1455556610?ref_=sr_1_1&qid=undefined&sr=8-1&keywords=Marissa%20Mayer%20and%20the%20fight%20to%20save%20yahoo&pldnSite=1">Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!</a> discusses Mayer's plan, what challenges she faces and how being one of few female CEOs makes it more complicated.</p>
