In a risky but interesting move that has some at the company nervous and others excited, Yahoo is in the process of moving key development responsibility for its juggernaut Yahoo News unit to Taiwan. Under the new system, product management, engineering and user interface design for the powerful Yahoo (YHOO) property will become the responsibility [...]
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6 Aug
Microsoft is hiring at least 400 Yahoo employees.
Microsoft assumes control of the search results and search advertising on Yahoo’s Web site and plans to hire 400 Yahoo employees on his payroll. Microsoft Corp will hire at least 400 workers from Yahoo Inc if government regulators approve the companies’ proposed Internet search partnership, and Yahoo will receive $150 million to cover any unexpected [...]
23 Jul
Yahoo buys Xoopit, a photo organization technology company.
Yahoo Inc said on Wednesday it has bought Xoopit, a privately-held company that provides technology to organize photograph collections in Yahoo’s e-mail system. Xoopit’s technology helps in the sending and sharing of photos through e-mail and enables users organize their inboxes as photo indexes, Bryan Lamkin, Yahoo’s senior vice president for applications, wrote on its [...]
1 May
Yahoo fires 60 in India then go for recruitment of 130. What a joke ?
Global search engine player Yahoo, which recently announced a five per cent lay-off globally, is learnt to have asked around 60 employees from its Bangalore-based R&D centre to quit the company. The California-based company is also planning to hire 130 professionals in India in areas like product engineering. A company spokesperson, however, declined to comment. [...]
28 Apr
Yahoo India is still hiring. 150 Positions to fill up and layoffs 675 from else where.
Yahoo is hiring for hundreds of job openings including nearly 150 vacancies in India, even as the internet major is set to bring down its global workforce by about 675 employees. “We are currently hiring for key positions and will continue to invest in strategically important areas,” a Yahoo spokesperson based in the US said. [...]
22 Apr
Yahoo will layoff 5% of workforce or 700 more jobs. Announced mandatory shutdown for one week.
Not so good news from Yahoo again. Yahoo Inc said it would cut 5 per cent of its global workforce (nearly 700 jobs) and reported quarterly results that showed progress towards controlling costs, sending shares higher in an after-hours relief rally. The Internet company said economic conditions remained challenging, as revenue on Yahoo Websites from [...]
16 Apr
Yahoo Inc is gearing up for its third round of mass layoffs
Yahoo Inc is gearing up for its third round of mass layoffs in 14 months, signaling the long-slumping Internet company is still struggling to snap out of its financial malaise under a new leadership team. The cuts will likely affect several hundred employees, a person familiar with the plan said, confirming a report first published [...]
10 Apr
After Yahoo 360, Yahoo closing another venture Yahoo Mash. Google following yahoo and closed Google Lively.
Here’s another Yahoo service which got smashed in front of competition. Yahoo’s social networking site Mash was shutdown after one year of its launch. The social site was supposedly pitched in competition to Facebook. Mash was launched in September 2007 while the Yahoo 360 was launched in 2005. In July 2008 Google launched Google Lively, [...]
3 Mar
Layoffs History in India by Indian IT Companies. TCS, Infosys, HCL Tech, Satyam, Patni, Mastek, Motorola, Capgemini, Sun, Yahoo, Hexaware, persistent and GlobalLogic layoff employees from India offices.
Please find compiled list of all layoffs across Indian IT companies. This list include layoffs from TCS, Infosys, HCL Tech, Satyam, Patni, Mastek, Motorola, Capgemini, Sun, Yahoo, Hexaware, persistent and GlobalLogic. (Please click this link to see details of all layoffs by MNCs all over world. List of companies include Google, Microsoft, Texas Instruments, IBM, [...]
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