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valleywag.com - 12/10/2008

Yahoo's secret layoff doublespeak revealed! [Leaks]

— 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 ... (more) Yahoo's secret layoff doublespeak revealed! [Leaks]

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gigaom.com - 12/8/2008

Yahoo Plans to Launch a Mail App Platform [GigaOM]

— 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 ... (more) Yahoo Plans to Launch a Mail App Platform [GigaOM]

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guardian.co.uk - 12/12/2008

Now Flickr is hit by Yahoo layoffs

— 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 ... (more) Now Flickr is hit by Yahoo layoffs

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Jerry Yang’s Entire Memo to the Yahoo Troops About Layoffs (Except Not the Part About Maybe More to Come)
BoomTown — Here’s Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang’s entire internal memo to the staff of the Internet giant about the layoffs, which took place today. (You can see the Yahoo version of the memo here.) There’s no need for translation, except to say–as Yang did–that it is the worst of times for any company. Except, as BoomTown previously reported, that there might be more layoffs to come, which a Yahoo (YHOO) spokesman told the New York Times. Said Yahoo’s Brad Williams: “There could be ...

Yahoo layoffs: Not death, but sacking by PowerPoint
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — ... Attempt to answer the "why me?" • Own the employee's feelings • Say that you disagree with the decision I find number two in the list particularly existential. If I were a manager, I'd immediately suggest reading Jean Paul-Sartre's Nausea, or if the employee was particularly bitter, suggest that they see No Exit. I'm sure that they would feel that Hell is other people after being sacked. Unfortunately, Yahoo managers better keep the script handy. This might not be the last round of redundancies. But this might be the best covered round of redundancies ...

Bits: Yahoo Removes 'Poison Pill' Severance Plan
NYT > Technology — ... and Yahoo remains low. Microsoft declined to comment. Steven A. Ballmer, the chief executive, has said repeatedly that the company is no longer interested in acquiring Yahoo (though it would still like to buy its search business). A Yahoo spokesman, Brad Williams, said: “This settlement is aimed at resolving this litigation, not in anticipation of a transaction.” That fact that the severance plan was revised and the suit settled just as Yahoo was handing out severance packages and pink slips to some 1,500 workers is pure coincidence, according to a person close to Yahoo. ...