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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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FindTheBest’s Kevin O’Connor Talks About Comparison Engine, Now Running Hot on $6M in Funding (Video)

in Commerce on July 28, 2011 at 9:15 am PT

How do you FindTheBest? Well, starting out with $6 million in venture funding won’t hurt.

Man Bites Dog! Web Publisher Pays Writers

in Media on January 16, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

Financial chatter site Seeking Alpha, which has relied on free stories from thousands of contributors for the past seven years, shifts strategies.

Another Twitter Business That Doesn’t Make Money for Twitter: Pay Per Twitterer

in Media on June 17, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

Yet another addition to the Twitter ecosystem of companies based on the microblogging service, but that don’t pay it a dime: Pontiflex, which is trying to charge marketers for each Twitter user name it collects.
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