Comments on: Weak ad market leads Yahoo to cut 10 percent of jobs http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/21/weak-ad-market-leads-yahoo-to-cut-10-percent-of-jobs/ News About Tech, Money and Innovation Tue, 24 Nov 2009 05:19:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: edhardy622 http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/21/weak-ad-market-leads-yahoo-to-cut-10-percent-of-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-895486 edhardy622 Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:01:05 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=99406#comment-895486 British law student sues Abercrombie-Fitch for disability discrimination.<br><a href="http://www.abercrombiefitchstore.co.uk" rel="nofollow">http://www.abercrombiefitchstore.co.uk</a> British law student sues Abercrombie-Fitch for disability discrimination.
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]]> By: Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang stepping down » VentureBeat http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/21/weak-ad-market-leads-yahoo-to-cut-10-percent-of-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-834159 Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang stepping down » VentureBeat Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:28:46 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=99406#comment-834159 [...] He’ll go back to being Chief Yahoo and a member of the company’s board of directors, while he helps the board find a new replacement. The move comes at a time when Yahoo’s share price has fallen to $10.63, less than a third of the share price that Microsoft had offered to pay for the company earlier this year. Yahoo’s ad revenues declining, and the company announced last month that it’s laying off.... [...] [...] He’ll go back to being Chief Yahoo and a member of the company’s board of directors, while he helps the board find a new replacement. The move comes at a time when Yahoo’s share price has fallen to $10.63, less than a third of the share price that Microsoft had offered to pay for the company earlier this year. Yahoo’s ad revenues declining, and the company announced last month that it’s laying off…. [...]

]]> By: Yahoo Application Platform coming next week — is it enough to save Yahoo? » VentureBeat http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/21/weak-ad-market-leads-yahoo-to-cut-10-percent-of-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-831938 Yahoo Application Platform coming next week — is it enough to save Yahoo? » VentureBeat Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:28:02 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=99406#comment-831938 [...] “open strategy,” which executives tout as part of their plan to turn around its declining economic fortunes. The idea is to make Yahoo more useful by giving third-party applications a way to plug into and [...] [...] “open strategy,” which executives tout as part of their plan to turn around its declining economic fortunes. The idea is to make Yahoo more useful by giving third-party applications a way to plug into and [...]

]]> By: Sardar Mohkim Khan http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/21/weak-ad-market-leads-yahoo-to-cut-10-percent-of-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-856940 Sardar Mohkim Khan Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:06:12 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=99406#comment-856940 I think the major problem lies in the management. They need to get things chalked out to avoid more cuts as saving cash by booting employees, especially when it is management's decisions that have wreaked havoc. I think the major problem lies in the management. They need to get things chalked out to avoid more cuts as saving cash by booting employees, especially when it is management's decisions that have wreaked havoc.

]]> By: Svetlana Gladkova http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/21/weak-ad-market-leads-yahoo-to-cut-10-percent-of-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-856939 Svetlana Gladkova Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:44:34 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=99406#comment-856939 Looks like yet another proof how quickly a company can grow into a behemoth from a startup and spoil the costs structure - now they have traffic up and could optimize the display vs CPC ads probably but instead they need to cut costs on things that have been doing the company unhealthy for the past few years. Looks like yet another proof how quickly a company can grow into a behemoth from a startup and spoil the costs structure – now they have traffic up and could optimize the display vs CPC ads probably but instead they need to cut costs on things that have been doing the company unhealthy for the past few years.

]]> By: Home Biss http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/21/weak-ad-market-leads-yahoo-to-cut-10-percent-of-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-831717 Home Biss Wed, 22 Oct 2008 10:04:30 +0000 http://venturebeat.com/?p=99406#comment-831717 <strong>Bad news for tech geeks! Massive layoffs at Yahoo!...</strong> I have sad news for tech geeks all over the world. Rumors of massive layoffs have hit Yahoo for couple of weeks now and yesterday Jerry Yang, the not so popular Chinese-looking founder cum CEO of Yahoo confirmed it. Yahoo will sack at least 10% of thei... Bad news for tech geeks! Massive layoffs at Yahoo!…

I have sad news for tech geeks all over the world. Rumors of massive layoffs have hit Yahoo for couple of weeks now and yesterday Jerry Yang, the not so popular Chinese-looking founder cum CEO of Yahoo confirmed it. Yahoo will sack at least 10% of thei…

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