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Yahoo To Slash 3,500 Jobs Next Few Weeks

by [FS] on October 18, 2008

Valleywag reported Yahoo plans to slash 3,500 jobs mainly in sales and finance beginning December (dang!) …

The departures are already happening, from what we hear. Read the tip here.

Update:

TechCrunch has made another post of the layoffs.  Apparently, the first round will begin this week.   Read the rest here.

TechCrunch reported the following: (here)

Yahoo just announced third quarter earnings. revenues were flat, up one percent to $1.79 billion. The company met consensus earnings estimates of $0.09 a share. CEO Jerry Yang on the conference call says that yahoo will lay off “at least 10 percent by year end.”

Source:  Valleywag, TechCrunch

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Jason October 20, 2008 at 7:37 am

They are cutting 15% around 2200-3000 employees shortly.

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