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Product Management, Engineering and UI Design for Yahoo News Moving to Taiwan

Kara Swisher in News on September 3, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

In a risky but interesting move that has some at the company nervous and others excited, Yahoo is in the process of moving key development responsibility for its juggernaut Yahoo News unit to Taiwan. Under the new system, product management, engineering and user interface design for one of Yahoo’s flagship properties will become the responsibility of staffers there. Editorial employees for Yahoo News–which is the No. 1 news site on the Web with 48.4 unique monthly visitors, according to comScore data –will remain in the U.S., largely located at its Santa Monica, Calif., office. Yahoo confirmed the change to BoomTown yesterday.