While the big deal in the Microsoft acquisition of Yahoo is the money and market share changing hands, there are plenty of Microsofties who are wondering which Yahoo employees will become their co-workers, their bosses, and their replacements.
Google Lets Go Of Postini Employees?
Last week, all eyes were on AOL, and perhaps even Yahoo, to see if employees would be let go prior to Christmas. Now a surprising rumor has spread that Google filled the Grinch’s role by firing around 60 former Postini employees.
IT Managers Stressed By Employees
IT managers are more worried about end users creating a problem for their IT Systems than about attacks from hackers, according to the, "2007 State of Security Report", sponsored by Websense.
Seeking Well-Rounded Employees
It might sound like a wacky idea, but one that is quickly gaining popularity in the business world. The idea of IT savvy folks with enough business understanding to make things happen is getting more social pressure from companies and IT departments.
Getting Better Employees Than Google
Google offers its employees an amazing collection of perks, but other companies need workers, too, and those companies don’t want to deal exclusively with Mountain View’s leftovers. So Forbes’s Brian Caulfield figured out several ways to compete with Google during the hiring process.
The Ban on Employees Accessing Facebook
Earlier this month, in FIR #254, Shel and I discussed quite an interesting story of what one company did regarding employee access to and use of Facebook.
IBM Sets Virtual World Rules for Employees
IBM’s guidelines for employee bloggers are fairly well known among people who pay attention to such things. Now, IBM has become (as far as I know) the first company to establish a policy for employees who venture into Second Life and other virtual words.
DoubleClick Employees Eat At Google
I’ve been to the Googleplex a grand total of one time, but while there, I didn’t pass up the opportunity to eat a hot fudge sundae. It turns out that DoubleClick employees in New York have been benefiting from a similar arrangement (although this one has greater implications for the business world).
Italy Investigates Google Employees
Now this is interesting. Italian prosecutors are investigating two Google Italy employees as part of an inquiry into how a violent video appeared on Google Video
Calacanis Wigs Out On Non-Blogging Employees
Weblogs Inc. CEO and AOL executive Jason Calacanis has a bone to pick with AOL employees not taking his directive to launch their blogs before he counts to three. His new directive: blog or die, man.