133 posts and columns on layoff

Exclusive: Yahoo’s Thompson Out; Levinsohn In; Board Settlement With Loeb Nears Completion

in News on May 13 at 8:59 am PT

The final shoe — shoe store, really — drops.
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They Shoot Yahoo CEOs, Don’t They? But Not Without a Really Smoking Gun and a Much Stronger Board.

in News on May 5 at 9:33 am PT

While many across the blogosphere — including some very clever tweets — called for the head of Scott Thompson tout de suite, that’s just not going to happen. At least for now. And here’s why.
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Yahoo’s Board Will “Review” Resume Discrepancy of CEO

in News on May 3 at 7:28 pm PT

Shoes start to drop, as shoes tend to do.
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Yahoo Gives Dan Loeb a Fresh One, but Real Action in Proxy Fight Begins in Coming Weeks

in News on May 2 at 5:28 pm PT

Buuuurn! (Not really.)
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Yahoo Beats Q1 Expectations (as Expected) — Now, Will New CEO Outline More Strategery on Investor Call?

in News on April 17 at 1:15 pm PT

An upside non-surprise as we await pearls of wisdom from new CEO Scott Thompson.
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Exclusive: Yahoo’s Chief Product Officer Blake Irving Resigns

in News on April 5 at 6:28 pm PT

Irving has left the purple building.
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Amid Worries About Strategery, Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Tries to Soothe the Savaged Troops (Memo Time!)

in News on April 5 at 3:13 pm PT

Who knows what tomorrow brings, in a world few hearts survive?

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

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

in News on April 3 at 3:16 pm PT

A dark day will probably dawn by tomorrow in Sunnyvale.
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Facebook Smacks Back at Yahoo With Patent Claims in Counter-Lawsuit

in News on April 3 at 11:13 am PT

The other shoe in the Facebook-Yahoo patent fight just dropped.
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Exclusive: Yahoo Loses Associated Content’s Luke Beatty, as Restructuring Looms

in Media, April 2, 2012 at 2:40 pm PT

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

in News, March 30, 2012 at 9:00 am PT

Third Point’s Loeb to Yahoo About Board Rejection: “Illogical Alice-in-Wonderland World”

in News, March 28, 2012 at 10:45 am PT

Yahoo-Geddon: Leaders to Debate Layoffs, Asset Sales, Search Deals and More Today, as a Major Restructuring Looms

in News, March 28, 2012 at 8:02 am PT

Vaunted Yahoo Techie Departs for Microsoft (Surprised? Me Neither.)

in News, March 19, 2012 at 8:29 pm PT

To Stanch Layoffs, Yahoo Has Been Shopping Its Ad Technology Platforms to Google, Microsoft and Others

in News, March 14, 2012 at 8:04 am PT

Exclusive: Amid Layoffs in AOL’s AIM and Mail Ranks, Top Execs Shellen and Van Miltenburg to Also Depart

in News, March 8, 2012 at 7:02 pm PT

Yahoo’s New CEO Preps Major Restructuring, Including Significant Layoffs

in News, March 5, 2012 at 6:00 am PT

Yahoo Product Unit Readies Major Exec Reorg — But It’s Just a Tremor for the Big One to Come

in News, February 12, 2012 at 4:14 pm PT

Ready to Rumble or Make Nice? Activist Shareholder Daniel Loeb Could Strike Sooner Than Yahoo Thinks.

in News, February 9, 2012 at 10:14 am PT

Lucky 13: After More Than a Dozen Failing Quarters, How Will New Yahoo CEO Roll the Dice?

in News, January 23, 2012 at 1:49 pm PT

As Weak Q4 Earnings Loom, Yahoo Freezes Hiring and Also Contemplates Layoffs

in News, January 19, 2012 at 5:10 am PT

Former eBay CEO Meg Whitman Being Considered for HP CEO Job to Replace Apotheker

in Enterprise, September 21, 2011 at 8:05 am PT

Nokia’s Stephen Elop Jumps Off Burning Platform Onto D9 Hot Seat: The Full Interview (Video)

in D9, July 3, 2011 at 6:02 am PT

HP’s Léo Apotheker Talks webOS, TouchPad and More: The Full D9 Interview (Video)

in D9, July 1, 2011 at 7:21 am PT