Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Yahoo to cut nearly 700 jobs after 1Q results fall

Michael Liedtke, AP Technology Writer
Tuesday April 21, 2009, 9:58 pm EDT

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Yahoo Inc. will lay off nearly 700 workers after getting off to a bumpy start under a tough-talking new boss who has promised to engineer a long-awaited turnaround at one of the Internet's best-known franchises.

Yahoo dumped about 1,000 jobs in February 2008 and another 1,500 or so late last year while co-founder Jerry Yang was still running the company. Yang stepped down, largely because he wasn't able to snap the company out of its financial funk during his 18-month tenure as CEO.

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