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It’s Official: Yahoo Lays Off 2,000 Employees — 14 Percent of Workforce

Kara Swisher in News on April 4 at 6:22 am PT

CEO Scott Thompson promises that Yahoo, after staff cuts of 14 percent of the entire workforce, will be “smaller, nimbler, more profitable and better equipped to innovate as fast as our customers and our industry require.”

Yahoo’s Layoffs Tomorrow Morning of up to 2,000 Will Only Be the First Move of a Larger Purge to Come

Kara Swisher in News on April 3 at 3:16 pm PT

A dark day will probably dawn by tomorrow in Sunnyvale.

Yahoo Layoffs Set to Begin Next Week, Followed by Restructuring the Week After

Kara Swisher in News on March 30 at 9:00 am PT

And so it begins.

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Yahoo Product Org Changes Now Taking a Backseat to Company-Wide Restructuring (Memo!)

Kara Swisher in News on March 15 at 2:15 pm PT

In a memo to his staff today, Yahoo’s Chief Product Officer Blake Irving said that the major planned changes he was making to the unit, which I reported about here, were going to get tabled. That’s due to the larger restructuring being done by CEO Scott Thompson, which he communicated to staffers about yesterday in yet another memo. “We have a bias toward action in Products and expected that our new org design would be in place well before any corporate changes took place,” said Irving, in part, from the email I nabbed. “However, it is clear now that the two efforts are starting to run in parallel, and making Product org changes prior to corporate changes no longer makes sense.”

CEO Thompson Tells Yahoos “Real Change Is Coming” (It’s Exclusive Internal Memo Time!)

Kara Swisher in News on March 15 at 5:06 am PT

The new leader addresses the nervous troops: Once more unto the breach, dear possibly laid-off Yahoos, once more …

A Big Digital Kiss to Britannica: Change — It Is Okay (Look It Up!)

Kara Swisher in Media on March 14 at 12:04 pm PT

Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky.

Groupon Updates Privacy Rules, Including on Mobile Tracking and Sharing of Personal Information

Kara Swisher in Commerce on July 9, 2011 at 11:33 pm PT

Groupon sent out emails to its users this weekend, about changes it has made to its privacy statement and terms of use. Among the most notable changes is more information about the Chicago-based social buying start-up’s collection and use of mobile location information. In other words, if you let them, in order to improve the experience and make the app more useful, you’re being tracked.

Liveblogging Demand Media's Q1 Earnings: Perky Perfecting!

Kara Swisher in Media on May 5, 2011 at 2:13 pm PT

Today, after Demand Media beat Wall Street expectations, its cheerful execs got on the horn with investors to explain how it plans to beat the Panda. That would be the beastly name for Google’s rejiggering of its search algorithm, in order to rid search results of poor quality content. BoomTown liveblogged the event, of course.

Demand Media About Latest Google Algo Impact: Move on, Nothing to See Here

Kara Swisher in News on April 17, 2011 at 11:29 pm PT

Tonight, Demand Media–in reaction to a new study showing that its flagship eHow site had now gotten much more negatively impacted by Google’s rejiggering of its search algorithm than previously–released a statement and blog post about the tempest. The content maker’s unsurprising verdict on itself: We’re okay, thanks for asking!

Yahoo Bored Meeting? Not This Time!

Kara Swisher in News on April 13, 2011 at 9:35 am PT

Today and tomorrow, Yahoo’s directors are gathering here in Silicon Valley for one of their regular meetings that take place over the course of the year. While board meetings in general are usually pretty dull affairs–and Yahoo’s, in particular, are typically glacial ones–there is a lot on the plates of those with purview over the machinations of the long-struggling Silicon Valley Internet giant.

It’s Official: Yahoo Lays Off 2,000 Employees — 14 Percent of Workforce

Yahoo’s Layoffs Tomorrow Morning of up to 2,000 Will Only Be the First Move of a Larger Purge to Come

Yahoo Layoffs Set to Begin Next Week, Followed by Restructuring the Week After

Yahoo Product Org Changes Now Taking a Backseat to Company-Wide Restructuring (Memo!)

CEO Thompson Tells Yahoos “Real Change Is Coming” (It’s Exclusive Internal Memo Time!)

A Big Digital Kiss to Britannica: Change — It Is Okay (Look It Up!)

Groupon Updates Privacy Rules, Including on Mobile Tracking and Sharing of Personal Information

Liveblogging Demand Media's Q1 Earnings: Perky Perfecting!

Demand Media About Latest Google Algo Impact: Move on, Nothing to See Here

Yahoo Bored Meeting? Not This Time!

Video: The Cashmere Stylings of Yahoo Chief Product Officer Blake Irving

AOL Layoffs Coming Soon, Followed by Champagne and Cookies for Advertisers When HuffPo Deal Closes

Actually, AOL's Mark Ellis Is Headed to Yahoo

Yahoo's (and Associated Content Founder) Luke Beatty Talks About Google's Content Farm Putsch

Hot Swap at the Top: AMD CEO Out

Welcome to ATD: The Very Enterprising Arik Hesseldahl

Welcome to ATD: The Very Enterprising Arik Hesseldahl

Author Ken Auletta Talks About Google and Its "Lack of Emotional Intelligence"

Off to D7: The More Things Change, the More They, Well, Are A-Changin'

Off to D7: The More Things Change, the More They, Well, Are A-Changin’

When in Rome, Do as the Romans Do (As in, No Twittering or Much iPhoning)

Super Tuesday: Turn and Face the Strain (of All That Political Rhetoric)

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