Archive for the ‘Desperate’ Category
Wednesday, December 10th, 2008
Yeah, you read it right -- The Big Purple Y! is finally running their layoffs, almost three months after they hire "Bobs" to cut staff (and of course denying anything of the sort would happen).
Stories:
http://valleywag.com/5106184/yahoos-secret-layoff-doublespeak-revealed
http://valleywag.com/5106683/jerry-yangs-incompetent-layoff-memo
http://valleywag.com/5106644/the-long-goodbye
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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008
After dumping money onto the consulting company Bain (you know, the two "Bobs" from Office Space?), and denying it was to confirm layoffs (who doesn't hire Bain to confirm layoffs?), Yahoo's now going to layoff 15% of its workforce.
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Friday, June 27th, 2008
Yahoo! Announces Realignment to Support Core Strategies
Thursday June 26, 1:44 pm ET
Centralizes Audience Product Development; Forms New U.S. Region; Realigns Technology Organization
SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO - News), a leading global Internet company, today announced changes to its organization aimed at improving its products, technologies and execution. The moves support ...
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
It's no surprise that Yahoo is having morale problems, but blaming this on Microsoft in the most recent SEC filing seems to be taking the victim role too far:
The review and consideration of the Microsoft proposal (and any alternate proposals that may be made by other parties) have been, and ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Now that a bunch of people have been cut, the games with severance pay, benefits, grants, and options are being played to either fend-off... or more likely "pump up the value" of Yahoo. From Bloomberg:
Full-time employees would get at least four months of severance pay and executive officers will get ...
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