Yahoo’s Dueling Internal Memos: Board, Followed by CEO, Spam Employees in Race to Explain

Today, Yahoo leaders — all of them in two different memos — took to the keyboards today to fill their 14,000 employees in on what’s up. Reading them, Yahoos must be more confused than ever now.
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Whitman to Hold All-Hands Meeting for HP Army This Morning

Meg Whitman, the new CEO of Hewlett-Packard, met investors yesterday after her sudden appointment at the Silicon Valley tech giant. Now she’ll turn to its huge staff, holding an all-hands meeting for HP’s 320,000 employees today at 9 am PT. Whitman will be presenting on-site at the company’s HQ for some workers; others will be able to watch and listen from around the globe.

Yang Says “Not for Sale”: All Hands on Yahoo’s Slippery Deck!

As a day of meetings begin for Yahoos over the sudden firing of CEO Carol Bartz, I’ll be the one in the back taking notes. Co-founder Jerry Yang says “no sale,” which means the sale is definitely in progress!
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Yahoo to Hold All-Hands Meeting Today in Wake of Bartz Firing

Yahoo’s interim CEO Tim Morse will lead an all-hands meeting for the Silicon Valley Internet giant’s almost 14,000 employees worldwide, to brief them on the firing of CEO Carol Bartz yesterday. Yahoos can attend the 11 am PT event near its Sunnyvale HQ, or watch a live feed of it (and please feel free to email me to tell me how it went!).

Xoogler Doug Edwards Talks About New Book on His Time at the Search Borg (Video)

“I’m Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59″ is a pretty fair rendition of what it’s like to be strapped to a rocket ship of a start-up.
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Viral Video: Intern Flash Mob at LinkedIn All-Hands Meeting

This is a very cute video of the interns at LinkedIn, the social business network, taking charge at a recent all-hands meeting.

Viral Video: AOL Media Head David Eun Gets Jiggy in Internal All-Hands Video

While he has been striking a lot of content deals of late for AOL, there seems to have been enough time in his day of trying to turn around the struggling Web giant for Media and Studios President David Eun to make a rap-techo-whatever video for the troops. While many division leaders might just release a dull memo, the former Google exec went right to the videotape, and I mean really went for it.

Following Layoffs, Yahoo Cuts Products: MyBlogLog, Delicious, Yahoo! Buzz

At an all-hands meeting for the Yahoo product team following a round of layoffs yesterday that significantly impacted that group, Chief Product Officer Blake Irving announced plans to “sunset” eight products.

NBC U Perks Up a Bit for Its New Owners