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Larry Dignan, Andrew Nusca and Rachel King

Yahoo! pink slips could come tomorrow

By | December 9, 2008, 11:04am PST

Yahoo! tomorrow will tell 1,500 employees tomorrow that their days in purple are over, according to FishBowl LA.

That is roughly 10 percent of its work force of 14,300 (by latest Wikipedia count).

This is a bigger cut than the 1,000 made in February. But it’s right in keeping with Yahoo!’s stated plans to cut a tenth of its work force. That was signalled in October.

Interestingly, Yahoo!’s board appears to be considering former Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin to replace Jerry Yang, the current chief Yahoo.

Yang, of course, is one of the casualties of Yahoo!’s ongoing strategic woes. But Vodafone may not escape similar woe. An announcement of sizable Vodafone job cuts has been expected in Europe since early November.

Sarin stepped down in July.

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Tom Steinert-Threlkeld is editor-in-chief of Securities Industry News, as well as a long-time media, technology and business journalist.

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Tom Steinert-Threlkeld

Tom Steinert-Threlkeld is editor-in-chief of Securities Industry News, as well as a long-time media, technology and business journalist.

He experimented with online news delivery a quarter century ago, with a text-only online service called StarText at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in Texas.
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RE: Yahoo! pink slips could come tomorrow
jackson1984-24316069205748857739440257893812 10th Oct
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replace a loser with another loser?
Linux Geek 9th Dec 2008
yahoo should look for some CEO that did not run his previous company into the ground before.
These layoffs are because yahoo did not take legal action against M$ soon enough.
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Tis the season
GuidingLight 9th Dec 2008
So nice to know trolls do not take a Christmas holiday... happy
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Until you give up and somebody else gets it.Unbearable pressure and you buckle.Whoever it is always gets their way.
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If Jerry Yangs planet-sized ego had not gotten in the way of selling Yahoo to MS when they were offering $33/share anybody that did get a pink slip would have enough to retire on.

I feel for the employees of Yahoo who are are having to pay for that (no pun intended) Yahoo's lack of fiduciary responsibility.

Yang will live comfortably while the Yahoo employees just become statistics.
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RE: Yahoo! pink slips could come tomorrow
jackson1984-24316069205748857739440257893812 10th Oct
I very much the same to this mulberry bags weblog. I'll without a doubt be peeping into it quite often.

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