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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Our sources reveal that the anticipated 700 layoffs have already started at Yahoo. We want to wish our local Yahoo! Tags: Gossip santa monica yahoo After posting falling results for Q1 a week ago, shiny new CEO Carol Bartz indicated this round of layoffs was on the way.
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Monday, January 11, 2010
Yahoo said Monday that it is dropping its outsource most of Yahoo Shopping, its comparison shopping to Los Angeles-based PriceGrabber , the firm told its developers Monday. Yahoo Shopping is a comparison shopping site which displays products and prices for different products, including consumer electronics, computer, and related items.
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Thursday, April 23, 2009
Internet portal Yahoo is quietly shutting Geocities , the Internet home page portal it acquired in 1999. Yahoo said it is no longer accepting new customers, and will discontinue the service later this year. billion stock-and-option acquisition by Yahoo in 1999. The firm was later moved to the Bay Area by Yahoo.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
San Diego-based DivX said Thursday that it has filed a lawsuit against Yahoo! for breach of contract, after Yahoo notified the firm that it intends to breach its two-year advertising services agreement with DivX. The lawsuit was filed in the California Superior Court in Santa Clara County. READ MORE
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Friday, May 7, 2010
A report Friday afternoon from the WSJ's Kara Swisher says that Santa Monica-based Demand Media has snagged yet another Yahoo executive, this time, Yahoo VP of Brand Packaging Erika Nardini. The move comes shortly after Demand hired former Yahoo Head of U.S. Tags: demand media executive yahoo READ MORE>>.
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Thursday, October 8, 2009
The last chapter for Internet homepage Geocities has been written, with Yahoo telling its last remaining users of the service that it will shut down on October 26th. According to Yahoo, as of October 26th, GeoCities sites will no longer appear on the web. Yahoo had initially said it would shut GeoCities in April.
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Friday, May 29, 2009
Dossett was most recently at Yahoo!, Tags: adventurelink travel executive booking yahoo Los Angeles-based AdventureLink , a venture funded online adventure travel booking site, said Friday that it has appointed Jeff Dossett as the firm's Chief Executive Officer. READ MORE>>.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2009
So when she asked me about a possible daily gig with Yahoo! So now you can see her daily over on new Yahoo! Tags: People shira lazar yahoo Believe it or not, Shira Lazar sometimes comes to me for career advice. I’m not sure. Maybe it’s because I’ve had so many jobs. was concerned. Photo by Wm. Marc Salsberry ).
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Monday, March 15, 2010
Los Angeles-based Demand Media , the online media venture of Richard Rosenblatt, announced Monday afternoon that it has hired on Joanne Bradford, most recently Yahoo's SVP of U.S. Tags: bradford joanne yahoo executive media demand Revenue and Market Development, as its Chief Revenue Officer. Bradford reports to Rosenblatt. READ MORE>>.
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Further details on the deal between Yahoo and Microsoft have come out in a filing by Yahoo with the SEC, with Yahoo saying that Microsoft will hire at least 400 Yahoo employees, and potentially another 150 employees to help with the transition, as Microsoft takes over the search engine features of Yahoo's sites.
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