Microsoft Announces 3,000 New Layoffs

May 6, 2009 at 12:18am ET by Vanessa Fox

Today, Microsoft announced that it had delivered layoff notices to 3,000 employees across several divisions (1,200 in Washington state). This comes just months after an initial round of 1,400 who were let go when Microsft announced second quarter earnings. At that time, Microsoft said it planned to eliminate 5,000 jobs this year, and Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer said that today's news was phase two of that plan (with the remainder planned for sometime before June 2010 and "as quickly as possible"). However, Steve Ballmer didn't rule out additional layoffs. In an internal memo, he said: As [...]

Filed in: Microsoft: Business Issues, Microsoft: Employees

Who’s Coming & Going In The Search Industry?

Apr 27, 2009 at 9:47am ET by Barry Schwartz

Over the weekend, there seemed to be a lot of activity on people coming and going at search companies. I figured I sum up some of those moves in a short post here. Former Googler Douglas Bowman, who resigned from Google due to Google being too data centric has taken a job at Twitter, according to TechCrunch. Priti Choksi, a director of strategic partner development at Google has moved to Facebook, according to VentureBeat. Well-known Greg Linden is Leaving Microsoft after Microsoft has "dismantled" Live Labs. Brad Williams, Yahoo Inc.'s head of communications has left the company. Rumo [...]

Filed in: Google: Employees, Microsoft: Employees, Search Biz, Yahoo: Employees

Microsoft Cuts Live Labs Staff By Half, Will Focus On Search

Apr 10, 2009 at 3:20pm ET by Matt McGee

PaidContent.org reports that Microsoft's Live Labs group has been cut in half, and the remaining crew will focus only on search. The departing team members will move on to other Microsoft product groups, such as Live Search, Windows Mobile, and Microsoft Advertising. In a post on the Live Labs Blog, Microsoft downplays the changes: "...moving great people and projects into the the product groups has always been part of our process, so today's news is entirely consistent with what we've always done. Contrary to recent whispers and tweets, we are not shutting down, disbanding, dismantli [...]

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