kara.allthingsd.com - 12/10/2008
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While layoffs have become all too common across tech and this country, today’s at Yahoo feel a little worse, coming after 18 unceasing months of painful changes and stumbles at the troubled Internet icon.
As previously reported by BoomTown , about 10 percent of Yahoo’s ...
valleywag.com - 12/10/2008
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valleywag.com —
Yahoo isn't firing people en masse — it's
"getting fit." That noisome euphemism for today's layoffs of...
1,500 people must have hissed forth from the brain of some overpaid management consultant. Likewise for pages upon pages of instructions on ...
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Yahoo's secret layoff doublespeak revealed! [Leaks]
gigaom.com - 12/8/2008
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gigaom.com —
Yahoo, the beleaguered web giant, is planning to
launch a new program that essentially turns its email...
offering into a platform on which to run applications, much in the same way Facebook does, according to some of my sources. Yahoo is keeping ...
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Yahoo Plans to Launch a Mail App Platform [GigaOM]
guardian.co.uk - 12/12/2008
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guardian.co.uk —
Thought the Yahoo layoffs were over? Not quite...
today it seems that George Oates , a high-profile...
member of the Flickr team and one of the site's early employees, was told that she was being given the chop too. She's recently been in Australia, so ...
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Now Flickr is hit by Yahoo layoffs
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Laid Off Yahoos, Jerry Salutes You
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily —
As has been widely report around the Web, Yahoo (YHOO) today laid off about 1,500 people, roughly 10% of its staff.
Yahoo just posted a copy of the note CEO Jerry Yang sent to the company’s staff:
yahoos,
today, most of our layoffs in the US are happening, and they’ve been underway in other regions around the world.
this is a tough time for all of us and i wanted to take a moment to reach out to you.
saying goodbye to colleagues and friends is never ...
Being Yang means never having to say you're sorry to departing Yahoos
L.A. Times Tech Blog —
... Today is the day when 1,500 purple-bleeding employees officially get their pink slips. So the soon-to-be-replaced CEO and founder sent out ...
Yahoo's plan to 'get fit': go on a crash diet
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... Kara Swisher - who has been the most reliable reporter on Yahoo's woes - says that HR and financial are hardest hit, while Owen Thomas at Valleywag has the ...
That’s not yodeling, it’s ululating
GMSV —
... : “challenging year … tough decisions … your position is one of those being eliminated.” Then it’s a hearty thank-you, an introduction to the outplacement consultant and two hours to get your gear and clear out. It’s layoff day for about 1,500 people (see “ ...
Yang: Layoffs ‘very hard,’ ‘very necessary’
Between the Lines —
... , Search , Yahoo Tags: Jerry Yang , Layoff , Yahoo! Inc. , Workforce Management , Human Resources , Larry Dignan Chief Yahoo Jerry Yang on Wednesday confirmed the company’s layoffs in the U.S. were underway and said the restructuring was “ very hard, but they are also very necessary .” Yahoo’s job cuts, reportedly 1,500 or so, are essentially being broadcast live via Twitter , blogs like BoomTown , Silicon Alley Insider and Valleywag, which even has the slides detailing how a ...
Weekend Update, 12/12/08
Digital Daily —
In this week ramping up to the holidays, good cheer–unsurprisingly–was hard to find. 2008 may well be remembered as the year the econalypse stole Christmas.
Yahoo (YHOO) was bereft of cheer, for sure. BoomTown covered its long-dreaded layoffs and published Jerry Yang’s complete memo to Yahoo staff about the painful process, which began on Wednesday. Ex-Yahoos from all corners of the company declared their preferences (and vented) to BoomTown about the as-yet fruitless search for a CEO to replace Yang, who laid ...
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While there are layoffs all over now, as evidenced by the dismal jobs reports last week, the long-planned Yahoo (YHOO) layoffs will definitely be taking place Wednesday.
The layoff number was announced by its (eventually outgoing) CEO Jerry ...
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kara.allthingsd.com 12/3/2008 —
The stock seesaw for Yahoo–fueled this time by a story in The Wall Street Journal claiming that former AOL CEO Jon Miller was seriously buttonholing private equity firms for money to buy the Internet giant–continues.
Yahoo shares ...
Ya-who? Possible successors to Jerry Yang —
SFGate: Technology 12/10/2008
Yahoo Inc. is making progress in its search for a new chief executive to replace Jerry Yang, who disclosed his plans to resign last month. The company's board is still recruiting candidates and has yet to come up with a final list, according to ...
Yahoo! eyes! Sarin! —
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Vodafone's ex-top man shortlisted Yahoo!'s search for a new leader has brought Arun Sarin into the frame, as someone with experience leading a public company into developing-market expansion who is currently at a loose end.…
Yahoo slashes 1,500 jobs —
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Yahoo, struggling to chart a new course in a troubled economy, initiated layoffs of 1,500 employees worldwide Wednesday while reports circulated about potential successors to chief executive Jerry Yang and a major investor expressed hope for reviving ...
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