Yahoo laying off 14%

Go2Guy · Apr 4, 2012

Yikes - that's not a downsizing, that's a bloodletting.

They're gonna take a $125-MM charge just for severance pay.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/yahoo-lays-off-2-000-132024043.html

alarson · Apr 4, 2012

I'm surprised theyre still around.

stormchaser2014 · Apr 4, 2012

Hopefully Chris Chase is one of them

Clonehomer · Apr 4, 2012

alarson said:
I'm surprised theyre still around.

I agree. What does yahoo actually do anymore, just news? Same goes for AOL.

MartyMcCy · Apr 4, 2012

Clonehomer said:
I agree. What does yahoo actually do anymore, just news? Same goes for AOL.

Yahoo has a good format for fantasy sports. That's about all I use it for.

JP4CY · Apr 4, 2012

I think yahoo has pretty good investigate sports stories quite often.

erikbj · Apr 4, 2012

I use Yahoo for email (non-work), fantasy football, ncaa basektball pools and Yahoo travel is easy to use for booking flights.

CLONECONES · Apr 4, 2012

JP4CY said:
I think yahoo has pretty good investigate sports stories quite often.

The University of Miami would like to disagree.

Wesley · Apr 4, 2012

erikbj said:
I use Yahoo for email (non-work), fantasy football, ncaa basektball pools and Yahoo travel is easy to use for booking flights.

I use yahoo for email. I like it much better than my google or cox email.

CloneIce · Apr 4, 2012

Clonehomer said:
I agree. What does yahoo actually do anymore, just news? Same goes for AOL.

I think Yahoo owns the Rivals recruiting network.

Wesley · Apr 4, 2012