forbes.com - 12/10/2008
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Ten years from now Steve Jobs' iPhone will be just another obsolete gadget. Rob Bailey's vitamin vodka, however, will still refresh. It never would have happened if Bailey hadn't left his business-development job at Yahoo! (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) in 2006 to pursue alcoholic ...
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]
kara.allthingsd.com - 12/10/2008
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kara.allthingsd.com —
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 ...
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Another Sad Day For Yahoo: Layoffs Begin, While ...
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p2pnet news —
... Former Yahoo guy Rob Bailey left his business-development job at Yahoo in 2006 to, “pursue alcoholic immortality,” says Forbes. ...
Linkpost | 12.10.2008
TechBlog —
... Chrome out of Beta - But there are still no Mac or Linux versions. • Search and find magazines on Google Book Search - You can now search though old magazines on Google Book search, and eventually they'll be included in regular results as well. • Why You Should Stop Buying Your Computers Fully Loaded - Gizmodo makes the case for buying minimal, then doing the upgrades yourself to save money. • G1 and Diamond push HTC to record profits in November • Better Off Without Yahoo! - For those who may be forced to leave, there may be an upside. Also ...
That’s not yodeling, it’s ululating
GMSV —
... “). But if they looked around a bit, the departing could find words of encouragement . Recruiters are hovering about to cherry-pick talent, entrepreneurial opportunities are out there, and “a downturn is the best time to latch onto the next big wave,” said Hongche Liu, chief information architect at people-search engine Spock and one of ...
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techcrunch.com 10/29/2008 —
Six months after first announcing its open strategy , Yahoo has released a slew of development tools (like we told you they would) under the Y!OS 1.0 platform. It’s kind of like a Web OS, but Y!OS officially stands for Yahoo Open Strategy. ...
Yahoo Layoffs Today May Not Be Last
bits.blogs.nytimes.com 12/10/2008 — Next year, Yahoo will close smaller offices in the United States and Asia. The biggest cut may be selling the search business to Microsoft.
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Yahoo Mail Retooled as Smarter Inbox For Third-Party Development
eweek.com 12/16/2008 — Yahoo introduces the new Yahoo Mail, a messaging and collaboration platform that aims to integrate multiple Web services and strengthen connections between users and their contacts. Yahoo hopes the new Mail app will help it better compete with Google ...
Ad Industry React: No Quick Fixes Expected For Post-Yang Yahoo
paidcontent.org 11/21/2008 — The news that Jerry Yang would be stepping aside as CEO of Yahoo ( NSDQ: YHOO ) cheered investors, but online ad industry execs aren't sure much has changed. And while shareholders would be thrilled by a Microsoft ( NSDQ: MSFT ) takeover, ...
Yahoo! eyes! Sarin! —
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