If you thought Google's "dogfood" holiday gift was chintzy, check out what Yahoo employees got: $50. To donate to charity. Some others, though, are stuffing their stockings with a $10 million legal settlement. Yahoos could hardly expect a generous gift in a year when the company went through two rou...

[UPDATE below.] Yesterday, the one-man-band of a tech blogger, Michael Arrington, let loose with yet another outrageously indignant diatribe–this time that he and his TechCrunch site would forthwith break all news embargoes. Not content with the traffic generated last week by his obviously fak...

Yahoo had set plans for a holiday party in L.A. right after Wednesday's mass layoffs — and it invited the victims. But just in case any were armed, Jerry Yang's guards set up metal detectors. No one seems to think the right employees were let go at the bloated Internet giant. The more we learn...

Did you hear Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang had his house lined with Kevlar before he laid off 1,500 employees? No idea if that's true, but that's the best rumor I heard all week. Nothing sets the office rumor mill going like a layoff. Everyone's jockeying for position and looking for information; no one actu...

Yahoo is "getting fit", which must be the 21st century incarnation of the 1980s euphemism of 'right-sizing', thought up by the late 20th century masters of managerial spin to replace the senselessly negative term downsizing. In a somewhat unsuccessful marriage of e.e. cummings and Frederick Winslow ...

Yahoo has a strict set of rules to follow in layoffs: No small talk. Get to the point. Don't own the employee's feelings. Did Jerry Yang, the stumbling Internet company's cloddish founder-CEO, follow them in his latest all-hands memo? Of course not! Check out the unnecessary verbiage — all low...

Yahoo hasn't been able to do anything right lately. Why should Wednesday's job cuts be any different? Mass layoffs are always traumatic. But Yahoo's human-resources department is not approaching this with any particular grace. December 10 has long been rumored as the date for the layoffs. (We first ...

by Scott Buresh by Scott Buresh and Brian Cooper When we last left Yahoo!, Jerry Yang (CEO) and the rest of the board had just spurned Microsoft's $44.6 billion takeover bid for the supposedly greener pastures of potential deals with AOL, News Corporation, and/or Google. The rejection of Microsoft's...

Last week, Bloomberg reported that Yahoo and AOL were still chit-chatting about a possible deal–non-news, actually, given the pair have never stopped talking. Nonetheless, it set off yet another flurry of excitement on Wall Street that a deal to merge the two troubled Internet companies was im...

Here’s part of an internal memo BoomTown obtained about some small, but interesting, changes at Microsoft’s MSN unit, sent out by the GM of its Global Media Group, Greg Nelson, which is under the leadership of–well, frankly–a confusing panoply of execs. Essentially, Nelson no...