Comments on: Yahoo Loses New Product Chief as Part of Layoffs http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2008/02/yahoo-loses-new-product-chief-as-part-of-layoffs.html Internet Marketing News Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:00:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Reviewing a Perilous Transition - The News of February 2008 » Search Engine Optimization Blog http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2008/02/yahoo-loses-new-product-chief-as-part-of-layoffs.html/comment-page-1#comment-63865 Reviewing a Perilous Transition - The News of February 2008 » Search Engine Optimization Blog Fri, 19 Dec 2008 19:50:47 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2008/02/yahoo-loses-new-product-chief-as-part-of-layoffs.html#comment-63865 [...] Yahoo Loses New Product Chief as Part of Layoffs As we reported earlier, Yahoo today started laying off many of the 1,000 employees it plans to let go. I’ve started hearing from those that have been given pink slips, but the most intriguing is that Salim Ismail is out the door. [...] [...] Yahoo Loses New Product Chief as Part of Layoffs As we reported earlier, Yahoo today started laying off many of the 1,000 employees it plans to let go. I’ve started hearing from those that have been given pink slips, but the most intriguing is that Salim Ismail is out the door. [...]

]]> By: Mobile guy http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2008/02/yahoo-loses-new-product-chief-as-part-of-layoffs.html/comment-page-1#comment-41433 Mobile guy Wed, 13 Feb 2008 14:30:26 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2008/02/yahoo-loses-new-product-chief-as-part-of-layoffs.html#comment-41433 Latest Yahoo!'s releases has failed, this could lead to Ismail's dismissal. Latest Yahoo!’s releases has failed, this could lead to Ismail’s dismissal.

]]> By: Jeff O'Connor http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2008/02/yahoo-loses-new-product-chief-as-part-of-layoffs.html/comment-page-1#comment-41424 Jeff O'Connor Wed, 13 Feb 2008 13:14:55 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2008/02/yahoo-loses-new-product-chief-as-part-of-layoffs.html#comment-41424 I read that Jerry Yang has "a secret plan" to save Yahoo! It's not that big a secret, really, since the article detailed it fairly well, and stated that it included revisiting the main page, unifying the various user profiles area scattered across Yahoo! properties into a cohesive whole, opening the platform to third-party development, and "Facebook-izing" Yahoo!Mail. Sometimes when the CEO decides to step in and take over direct control of a company's heart-and-soul division, it's a sign that they finally "get it" and are staking the future of the company on new products and services. And sometimes it just means that they've played their last hand and the captain is posturing as he or she goes down with the ship. I'd like to think in this case it's the former. I read that Jerry Yang has “a secret plan” to save Yahoo! It’s not that big a secret, really, since the article detailed it fairly well, and stated that it included revisiting the main page, unifying the various user profiles area scattered across Yahoo! properties into a cohesive whole, opening the platform to third-party development, and “Facebook-izing” Yahoo!Mail.

Sometimes when the CEO decides to step in and take over direct control of a company’s heart-and-soul division, it’s a sign that they finally “get it” and are staking the future of the company on new products and services.

And sometimes it just means that they’ve played their last hand and the captain is posturing as he or she goes down with the ship.

I’d like to think in this case it’s the former.

]]> By: Make Money Online http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2008/02/yahoo-loses-new-product-chief-as-part-of-layoffs.html/comment-page-1#comment-41413 Make Money Online Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:16:39 +0000 http://www.marketingpilgrim.com/2008/02/yahoo-loses-new-product-chief-as-part-of-layoffs.html#comment-41413 I thought that the refusal of the latest Mircosoft offer was great news for Yahoo! but the more I read about the layoffs make me think that a deal will be finalised sooner rather than later. I thought that the refusal of the latest Mircosoft offer was great news for Yahoo! but the more I read about the layoffs make me think that a deal will be finalised sooner rather than later.

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