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Leaning In to No. 1: Sheryl Sandberg’s Book Tops Both NYT and Amazon Bestseller Lists
Bucket list check!
Yahoo Work-From-Home Controversy Already a Silicon Valley Billboard Meme
You don’t mess around with the pajama army.
Survey Says: Despite Yahoo Ban, Most Tech Companies Support Work-From-Home for Employees
CEO Marissa Mayer is swimming against the tech workplace tide with her new ban.
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Tablets in the Workforce
There are more and more of them, and more of them are iPads.
Amid Worries About Strategery, Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson Tries to Soothe the Savaged Troops (Memo Time!)
Who knows what tomorrow brings, in a world few hearts survive?
It’s Official: Yahoo Lays Off 2,000 Employees — 14 Percent of Workforce
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.”
NetSuite Sales Surge, Making for a Good Day in the Cloud
After reporting record-setting quarterly results, NetSuite CEO Zach Nelson talks about the the state of the cloud business and what he likes about competing with SAP.
Liveblogging Yahoo’s 3Q Earnings: Busy, Busy, Busy (So Go Away, Tim Armstrong!)
Here we go with the Yahoo third-quarter earnings call starring CEO Carol Bartz, who has some–in the immortal words of Ricky Ricardo–‘splaining to do. Yahoo turned in a much-needed solid quarterly earnings report, with slightly better-than-expected earnings, although still weak revenues. CEO Carol Bartz sounded subdued and very much on script. Probably a good idea, considering!
Oracle: Okay, So Maybe We Are Cutting Sun to Profitability.
“We’re not cutting Sun to profitability, we’re growing Sun to profitability.” Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said that back in January as the company closed its $7.4 billion acquisition of Sun. Interesting, then, to read Oracle’s latest 8-K filing in which the company adds up to $825 million in restructuring costs to the buyout–some 80 percent of them evidently earmarked for employee severance payments at Sun’s European and Asian outposts.
New from HP: The Pink Slip Jet 9000
Hewlett-Packard currently has about 304,000 employees worldwide. Three years from now it will have 301,000. The company today said it will reduce its employee roster by 3,000 employees, or one percent of its workforce, over the next few years. Nine thousand workers will lose their jobs, with 6,000 new ones to be hired in the same period.
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