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Yahoo Hires Adobe Vet Lamkin to Run Communications and Communities Unit as Dietzen Moves to Strategy Post

Kara Swisher in News on April 24, 2009 at 11:43 pm PT

More musical chairs at Yahoo, which BoomTown predicted recently, as top execs at the company move in and out of jobs, and new ones from the outside move in. Perhaps the most important change to occur is the replacement this week of SVP Scott Dietzen–who had been in charge of all communications and communities products at Yahoo–by former Adobe Systems exec Bryan Lamkin, several sources said. And there’s even more…

Stop Me if You've Heard This One: Yahoo Management and Staff Set on Shuffle Again

Kara Swisher in News on April 15, 2009 at 1:31 am PT

Yes, more layoffs are indeed coming to Yahoo, sources confirmed to BoomTown, but perhaps even more than have been reported. But that’s not all, as even more top-level managers are either leaving or being moved around the ever-changing organizational structure at Yahoo. That includes a longtime top sales operations exec, Dan Foehner, who is about to start at Facebook next week, as well as others contemplating leaving, on their way out or being reshuffled. In other words, business as usual at the tumultuous company, whose nickname should be “Reorg.”