Silicon Alley Insider is predicting impending layoffs at AOL and recommending them at Yahoo. Alley Insider’s Henry Blodget says that layoffs would be good for Yahoo and “Demonstrate that CEO Jerry Yang can make the tough, unpopular decisions necessary to get this company humming again.” I think that he’s correct that the pressure on Yahoo to do something like this will grow dramatically if its Q4 performance is lackluster.

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