Zillow.com Reducing Staff By 25%

Online real estate Web site, Zillow.com has announced it is cutting 25 percent of its staff, which amounts to 40 employees in order to "securely batten down the hatches as we sail into a major economic storm," the company's chief executive officer, Rich Barton wrote on the Zillow Blog.

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Yahoo Flushing More Jobs

Yahoo is expected to announce some job cuts tomorrow as they announce their third quarter earnings. The number of cuts has been rumored to be anywhere between 1,000 and 3,500. The company is no stranger to letting go chunks of employees, and with current economic conditions, it is no surprise that they are at it again. Rafat Ali at PaidContent.org writes:

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Yahoo Tries Social Media From a New Angle

Last month, Yahoo Mash was shut down before ever leaving beta form. If you've never heard of Yahoo Mash, you're not alone. It didn't really catch on - hence the shut down. It was Yahoo's attempt at a social network, presumably made to compete with MySpace, Facebook, and the like. That didn't quite pan out.

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Google Actively Seeking Testimonials From Advertisers?

Search Giant Google is apparently doing a little searching of its own - for support of it's proposed advertising deal with Yahoo that is. TechCrunch tells about one of their readers (who advertises with both Google and Yahoo) getting a call from a lawyer representing Google and asking them to provide a public testimonial as to why they think the Google-Yahoo deal would be a…

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YouTube’s Search Ads – Will You Buy Them?

Google will announce its third quarter financial results on Thursday, and in the meantime, the company seems to be looking for revenue under every rock... and YouTube may be the biggest rock of all.Searches for all sorts of terms on YouTube are turning up links to one or more "promoted videos" on the right-hand side of results pages.  Each ad consists of one small image…

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