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- Report: Lackluster Game Sales Lead To Studio Closures, Layoffs At Activision
- While rival gaming companies like EA and THQ were laying off thousands of staff earlier this year, Activision (NSDQ: ATVI) kept chugging along. No more. Slumping game sales industry-wide have forced the company to start cost-cutting; the first casualty is former Scratch the Ultimate DJ developer 7 Studios. Reports...
- External links 2009-10-08
- AP Achieves 10 Percent Payroll Reduction With 90 Layoffs
- The Associated Press’ layoffs this week have satisfied the goal of reducing payroll costs by 10 percent, the wire service said in a statement. The final tally of the layoffs was 90 news department staffers, the AP said. About 71 jobs were represented by the Newspaper Guild, which has...
- External links 2009-11-19
- Social Recruiting Site KODA Raises $3 Million
- New recruiting site KODA.us has closed a $3 million funding round from angel investors. The site lets job candidates and companies set up non-traditional profiles to describe themselves. Candidates, for instance, can answer "why I'm unique" and fill out "my story," while businesses say "how we're different" and list...
- External links 2009-08-03
- RealNetworks Does 12 Music Layoffs; Less Focus on Desktop Client & Edit At Rhapsody
- RealNetworks (NSDQ: RNWK) has done 12 employees layoffs from its Rhapsody music division, we have confirmed from the company, following news earlier on ATD. This is about 9 percent of its music division. The reason: focus on online and mobile applications, rather than the desktop client and its editorial...
- External links 2009-08-06
- Job Search Site SimplyHired Gets $4.6 Million Funding
- Job search engine SimplyHired, based in Mountain View, CA, has received $4.6 million in a new round of funding, led by IDG Ventures and Foundation Capital. This bring the total money into the company to $22.3 million; previous investors include Fox Interactive Media (NYSE: NWS), that invested $3.5 million...
- External links 2009-08-11
- Under New Ownership, San Diego Union-Tribune Lays Off 200
- The San Diego Union-Tribune has laid off 200 of its employees, a source tells us. The mass layoffs come five months after private equity firm Platinum Equity purchased the paper.More to come. Related PE Firm Platinum Equity To Buy San Diego Union-Tribune by Joseph Tartakoff
- External links 2009-08-12
- Salon Lays Off Six From Edit, About 20 Percent of Staff
- Salon Media, the parent of Salon.com, has laid off six editorial staff, which is about 20 percent of its staff. The rumor first surfaced on Gawker and later confirmed by company CEO Richard Gingras to them. These include three editors, one writer, one photo editor, and one producer.Thus continues...
- External links 2009-08-17
- Google Says It Wants To Hire Yahoo Talent
- It wouldn’t be so surprising or newsworthy if this was happening behind the scenes, but Google (NSDQ: GOOG) is now openly trying to recruit Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) search engineers. In a blog post, Matt Cutts, who is Google’s most prominent search blogger, says straight out, “if you’re an excellent...
- External links 2009-09-16
- Where Are Google And Yahoo Still Hiring?
- Both Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) have cut back sharply on hiring—but they do still have hundreds of job openings. So, what do the two companies consider to be posts they need to fill? A report by Broadpoint.AmTech analyst Benjamin Schachter indicates that both firms seem to...
- External links 2009-09-17
- PCUK/Harris Poll: Subscriptions Appeal More To UK Readers Than Micropayments
- Day two in our exclusive paidContent:UK/Harris Interactive poll shows that more than half of those surveyed prefer a long-term subscription, not micropayments or day passes. Details here. Related PCUK/Harris Poll: Only Five Percent Of UK Readers Would Pay For Online News by Staci D. Kramer
- External links 2009-09-22
- Yahoo's Bartz: 'We're Done With Layoffs'
- The economy may be “bumping along the bottom,” as Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz said during the company’s press conference. But afterward, Bartz told paidContent that there are no further layoffs on the horizon: “We have no more layoffs; we’re done. That’s it.” Yahoo has already cut its...
- External links 2009-09-22
- BusinessWeek Under Bloomberg: About 100 Staff To Be Laid Off
- So the cuts and changes will happen anyway, despite whatever the promises were, reminiscent of the Murdoch’s promises to the Bancroft family at the time of the Dow Jones (NYSE: NWS) deal. Bloomberg will lay off about 100 staffers from BusinessWeek staff when the deal to buy it from...
- External links 2009-11-18
- AP Staffers Gird For Possible Layoffs
- Associated Press staffers are preparing for what could be 70- to 80 layoffs today, as reports are seeping out about growing anxiety about the announcement of possible cuts. Gawker cites an unidentified tipster and AP staffer who say the layoffs will be announced at a meeting in New York....
- External links 2009-11-17
- With DoubleX's Demise As A Standalone, Peggy White Leaves Slate
- As Slate’s DoubleX prepares to wind down after a nine-month stint as a standalone, Peggy White is leaving the company as publisher of the women’s news and analysis site, she tells paidContent. She’ll be on hand for a short period to help out with the transition of DoubleX back...
- External links 2009-11-17
- Struggling To Find A Sustainable Business Model, ZillionTV Lays Off Staff
- ZillionTV, the streaming video set-top box-maker that’s backed by media giants like Disney, Fox, Sony and Warner Bros., has laid off an undisclosed number of staff. A former employee, now blogging at XYHD.tv, reports that the company let go roughly a third of its 100-member workforce; ZillionTV would only...
- External links 2009-10-12
- Cond
- About seven sales staffers were let go from Cond by David Kaplan
- External links 2009-10-16
- NYT To Cut 100 Newsroom Posts
- As it prepares for its Q3 earnings, the New York Times plans to cut 100 newsroom jobs – roughly 8 percent of the edit workforce – by the end of the year, the NYT reports. The workforce reduction will come through a mix of buyouts to union and non-union...
- External links 2009-10-19
- Forbes Prepares For More Across-The-Board Layoffs
- After several months of quiet, Forbes is cutting more jobs again. In a staff memo by Steve Forbes obtained by FishbowlNY, the company’s CEO and editor-in-chief of the mag cited industry-wide turmoil. “We—and the entire media world—have been hit hard by both the severe recession and the seismic...
- External links 2009-10-26
- Report: Time Layoffs Axe Essence Magazine's Web Team
- More news about Time, Inc.‘s layoffs trickling out ... According to reports from Gawker and urban journalist blog Journalisticks.com, the company cut 18 staff from Essence magazine, including four editors and “nearly the entire” web team. This comes after a social media-centric relaunch of Essence.com last week. The sources...
- External links 2009-11-04
- United Online Cuts 5 Percent Of Its Workforce
- United Online (NSDQ: UNTD) is cutting five percent of its workforce—or about 96 jobs. The company disclosed the layoffs during an earnings call Wednesday, in which CEO Mark Goldston said the company was making the cuts to “increase efficiency.” Most of the layoffs are at United Online’s Classmates.com unit,...
- External links 2009-11-05
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