Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer got some help from "Saturday Night Live" cast members Tuesday when she took the stage at the International CES to announce a new app called Yahoo News Digest.
The app, available now in the App Store, pulls together snippets of news from around the Web and presents it in a twice-daily digest that Yahoo says is more readable than wading through the "tsunami" of news information available on the Web.
Mayer was already seen as the "star power" in the CES speaker line-up, and the fact she was joined by two SNL cast members, as well as journalists Katie Couric and David Pogue, made her keynote a spectacle fitting for Las Vegas.
Cecily Strong, who plays one of the anchors on SNL's Weekend Update news segment, sat at a desk on stage and deadpanned her way through last year's "top tech stories."
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