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Thursday, September 3, 2009

Product Management, Engineering and UI Design for Yahoo News Moving to Taiwan

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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 one of Yahoo’s flagship properties will become the responsibility of staffers there.

Editorial employees for Yahoo News–which is the No. 1 news site on the Web with 48.4 unique monthly visitors, according to comScore data –will remain in the U.S., largely located at its Santa Monica, Calif., office.

Yahoo confirmed the change to BoomTown yesterday.

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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Layoffs Hit Silicon Valley: HP Today, Who Tomorrow?

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.

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Kara Swisher started covering digital issues for The Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau in 1997 and also wrote the BoomTown column about the sector. With Walt Mossberg, she co-produces and co-hosts D: All Things Digital, a major high-tech and media conference. Read more »

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