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  • #layoffs

    The French Resistance to Yahoo's Cost-Cutting CEO

    Carol Bartz's lacerating eccentricity may captivate Silicon Valley, where she's cutting costs left and right. Not so in Europe: When Yahoo tried to shut down operations in France, workers made this surreal, defiant video. And went on strike, naturally. More »
  • #layoffs

    DailyCandy Sours on Most of Its Cities

    DailyCandy is eliminating the special editions for seven of its twelve cities, according to an internal memo we've obtained, resulting in almost as many layoffs. NBC Universal, take heed: Even inside Comcast's profitable umbrella, no one is safe from cutbacks.
  • #holidaze

    The Year End Party Is Over for Yahoo, We're Told

    We hear Yahoo is canceling its annual "Year End Party" for 2009. That's quite a change for a company that last year held three company parties and additional bashes at the departmental level, amid layoffs. More »
  • #layoffs

    Print Refugees Laid Off by Web Site That Was Supposed to Save Them

    Oyster.com, a hotel-rating site that launched just five months ago with the aim of hiring real journalists—ones who got laid off from all the real journalism jobs—is laying off a bunch of people. The lifeboat is sinking. More »
  • #holidaze

    The Incredible Shrinking AOL

    Just in time for Christmas, AOL is asking 2,500 of its workers to volunteer for buyouts starting Dec. 4 (layoffs come after) as the company separates from Time Warner and a shadow of its former online conglomerate self. More »
  • #feuds

    Will Evangelize Your Tech Company for Food

    Don Dodge used to be an official evangelist for Microsoft, hyping the company's software and insulting its competitor Google. Then Microsoft laid him off, and Google hired him. Cue the bitter, flip-flopping blog post in which Dodge loudly switches sides. More »
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    Al Gore's TV Network Firing 80 People Due to Wild Success

    Current Media said it would shed 80 people, confirming earlier reports, and will make its unconventional format more boringly traditional. This might sound bad. But the San Francisco cable network assures us it is evidence of amazing success! More »
  • #holidaze

    Adobe Joins Pre-Holiday Layoff Wave

    Adobe will lay off 680 people, or nearly 10 percent of its workforce. The publishing software company joins Electronic Arts and AOL in making pre-Thanksgiving cutbacks. At least these workers won't be shocked during the holidays. Just broke. (Pic)
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    AOL will lay off about 100 today, as we reported, says All Things D.

  • #holidaze

    AOL Layoffs Tomorrow to Kick Off Depressing Holiday Season?

    'Tis the season to rush up layoffs so they don't fall in the sacrosanct Thanksgiving-to-Christmas period: An AOL insider tells us the company is slated to let go around 100 people tomorrow, following 1,500 firings Electronic Arts announced today. More »
  • #kidstoday

    Six Child Media Prodigies You Should Fear

    That 16-year-old TechCrunch writer with 120,000 Twitter followers, who we wrote about yesterday, is part of a burgeoning child punditocracy. Children are operating in virtually every facet media — and doing so successfully. Fear for your job. More »
  • #layoffs

    Sluggish Microsoft to Fire Hundreds This Morning

    Microsoft will begin its third 2009 layoff round as soon as this morning, TechFlash reports, because the software giant's growth has slowed. Conference rooms are already reserved. If you learn anything about the reboot, email us. (UPDATE: Social networking hit.) More »
  • #printisdead

    Forbes Layoffs Are Here, and They're Brutal

    The layoffs at Forbes, which we first reported on three weeks ago, arrived today, and we hear from inside the magazine that they're "real big.... huge," with a rumored 50 or so editorial staff let go. (Updates: LA+London bureaus gone.) More »
  • #layoffs

    On Firing Day, Busy Wired Editor Had Other Places To Be

    Chris Anderson has plenty of distractions from editing Wired, including a lucrative sideline on the global lecture circuit and a tour to promote his new book. Anderson's prior commitments even removed him from the office on Wired's layoff day. (Updated) More »
  • #exits

    Unwiring Wired

    For a digital bible, Wired has been turning surprisingly analog over the past year. The latest regressions: The publication just fired two top editors from Wired.com and may soon lose the founders of Reddit.com. More »
  • #shakeups

    eBay Layoffs: Fewer Than 60, Company Says

    eBay has quantified the layoffs we've been writing about, saying the online auction company's upcoming restructuring will "impact fewer than 60 positions," in the words of a spokesman, with details provided internally within the week. More »
  • #rumormonger

    eBay Layoffs Rumored for Thursday

    eBay has already confirmed it is planning a round of layoffs. Now a company tipster tells us the internal reckoning is slated to come on Thursday. More »
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  • #rumormonger

    Layoffs at Forbes?

    A source close to Forbes tells us another layoff round is imminent, the third this year. Ouch. More »
  • #shakeups

    Layoffs Loom at eBay

    Two weeks ago, eBay announced a restructuring. As any Silicon Valley trouper knows, that means layoffs will soon follow. And that, in fact, is what's happening. More »
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