Our sources reveal that the anticipated 700 layoffs have already started at Yahoo. We want to wish our local Yahoo! Tags: Gossip santa monica yaho After  posting falling results for Q1  a week ago, shiny new CEO Carol Bartz indicated this round of layoffs was on the way. Expected to be around 700 employees, we are told the actual number is around 600. 

As one of the biggest content creators on the net, Yahoo wants to rank high in Google and other search engines. Tony Adam , Yahoo’s SEO Manager , is responsible for helping the company optimize so it could get more search engine traffic. Yahoo, because it’s a big company, has a considerably larger list. In our interview, he gave me some basic search engine optimization tips that anyone could use, including: Pick your keywords

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. Financial details of the deal were not disclosed As part of the shift, Yahoo said it will no longer be providing an API to its shopping syndication services, as of March 11th. READ MORE>> ...Tags:

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. Geocities was one of Southern California's original, dot com successes, having both a successful IPO in August of 1998, and a $4.5 The firm was later moved to the Bay Area by Yahoo.

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. DivX said that Yahoo has informed the firm that it will discontinue making payments required under an agreement with the firm. As a result of the change, DivX also said it has made a revision to its revenue and earnings estimate for the year, reducing its estimated revenue range from $90 to $92M, down from an estimate $95 to $97M. The lawsuit was filed in the California

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. In addition, the company warned users that they will lose all access to their account and files, with all of the files being deleted from Yahoo's servers Yahoo had initially said it would shut GeoCities in April. The shutdown puts to bed one of Southern California's original Internet success stories.

Dossett was most recently at Yahoo!, Tags: adventurelink travel executive booking yaho 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. where he was Senior Vice President of Audience Experiences for North America.

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 yaho Believe it or not, Shira Lazar sometimes comes to me for career advice. Why? I’m I’m not sure.

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. Yahoo and Microsoft said last Wednesday that Yahoo will abandon its search engine development efforts, and instead use Microsoft's technology--including Microsoft adCenter. It's unclear if any of those employees involved in the deal would be located in Yahoo's Southern California locations, which include Burbank, San Diego, and Santa Monica.

In a major deal, search portal provider Yahoo and software giant Microsoft said that the two companies are in a deal where Yahoo will replace its own search engine technology with that of Microsoft--with potentially huge repercussions to Yahoo's Southern California search engine marketing operations. Yahoo and Microsoft said that Yahoo will use the technology behind Microsoft's Bing search engine to power all of the web search aspects of its web site, with Yahoo taking over premium search advertising sales for Microsoft. The two specifically said, in an oblique reference to Google, that the move would provide an alternative to advertisers, so that they no longer to have "rely on one company that dominates more than 70 percent of all search."