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Nokia Slashing R&D Staff
ADOTAS – Maybe they can go out for drinks and grousing with the AOL people laid off during the Huffington Post integration. Six thousand Nokia research and development people are likely to get the sack when the Finnish smartphone-maker forgoes its long-running and long-despised Symbian mobile operating system for the [...] more...
Outside.in Recruited for AOL Local Duty
ADOTAS – Even before AOL acquired Huffington Post for $315 million, the portal’s new content svengali Arianna Huffington admitted to a fascination with the future of hyper-local content — during the merger announcement, she highlighted her interest in Patch, AOL’s network of local news blogs. Perhaps as a present to celebrate [...] more...
MySpace: Requiem for a Social Dream
ADOTAS – I miss MySpace — the old MySpace that is, before News Corp. sucked it up and started chewing. It’s only a matter of now before once-might social network gets spit out. Tomorrow MySpace will lay off 50% to 70% of its 1,000 person staff, including a great deal of [...] more...
Does Yahoo Still Need to Slim Down or Is It Bulimic?
ADOTAS – We knew it would be arriving any day — the layoff wagon finally rolled into Yahoo this week, its haul filled with pink slips. Though Yahoo corporate fluctuated from tight-lipped to extraordinarily vague, around 4% of the workforce were given severance packages — the final figure was 600 [...] more...
It’s Layoff Season Again at Yahoo
ADOTAS – It’s not going to be a real merry holiday season at Yahoo. While TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington first put the layoff figure at 20% of Yahoo’s staff, Kara Swisher at AllThingsD reports that 10% of the product group is going to get chopped next month. That’s 10% of 6,500 employees [...] more...
Third of Digg’s Staff Left in Dirt
ADOTAS – After breaking the departure of CRO and Publisher Chas Edwards for Pixazza, AllThingsD’s Kara Swisher found out a lot more bodies departed the social recommendation website — just not of their own volition. Twenty-five of Digg’s 67 staffers — more than a third — received pink slips yesterday. To [...] more...
AOL to slash a third of its staff
ADOTAS – Initial reports suggested that layoffs wouldn’t top a grand, but the latest numbers surrounding AOL’s spinoff from Time Warner have the dwindling Internet dinosaur shedding a third of its staff. AOL is asking for 2,500 volunteers to accept buyouts; layoffs will follow if not enough people sign up to [...] more...
Whither AOL layoffs?
ADOTAS — As Liberty Media kicks the tires of AOL assets, AOL boss Tim Armstrong continues his restructuring. COO Kim Partoll is out, as is John Kannapell, SVP of search and local media, according to AllThingsD. Kara Swisher says that Kannapell’s departure wasn’t a surprise, but Partoll was because she was [...] more...
Next New Networks restructures, some layoffs
ADOTAS — The New York-based online video production company has created two new departments within the company in order to better serve audiences and advertisers and create the next-generation of online programming. The Audience Development Group, headed by co-founder Tim Shey, will now drive all audience building efforts. Entertainment producer Kathleen [...] more...
Joost becomes YouTube roadkill, starts layoffs
ADOTAS — Despite reworking its technology to work in a web browser, the $45 million video service that was supposed to be a YouTube killer is now on life support. Joost CEO Mike Volpi is out and a majority of its employees, nearly 100, will be laid off. A much smaller [...] more...
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