All the news is already out about the new Yahoo homepage, which was launched today for users in the U.S. It features customizable apps, as well as a cleaner look.
But, just in case you are not satisfied yet, here is the full press release on the new front page for Yahoo.
Of course, the layoffs at Hewlett-Packard were expected, part its cost-cutting integration after the $13.25 billion acquisition of Electronic Data Systems Corp.
HP said yesterday that the 24,600 jobs the tech giant axed, or 7.5 percent of the total work force, were made to “streamline the combined company’s services” businesses.
But BoomTown has to wonder if other big tech and Internet companies might be looking at HP’s move and the current economic mess and wondering if it might be a good time to pare down a bit themselves, after a spate of overhiring.
As readers of AllThingsD.com might have noticed, we added columnist Therese Poletti to the main rail of the site today.
Her twice-weekly column, Tech Tales, which appears on MarketWatch on Tuesdays and Thursdays, will also be published here too.
Poletti joins Eric Savitz of Barron’s, whose posts on his Tech Trader Daily blog about tech stocks have been appearing on the front of ATD several times a day for the past month.
Today, we debut our new redesign of the home screen of AllThingsD.com.
It is, in fact, our second redesign since we launched the site in late April of 2007, although it is a much more drastic redesign, with a lot more elements added.
Why did we do it? No, we are not hyperactive (OK, we are, but we are taking medication for that).
One of the nice things about having a blog is that I can mouth off on just about anything I want and include whatever I want too (such as, for example, shamelessly making videos of my kids in a fruitless attempt to try to cajole Yahoo’s Jerry Yang into having lunch with me).
Today, that [...]
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