Topic: Telecomm
Yahoo's workforce is 4 percent smaller—just in time for the holidays.The Sunnyvale, Calif.–based Web portal laid off roughly 600 employees on Tuesday (Dec. 14), according to CNNMoney.com.Though rumored for months,…
As Elle and Woman’s Day publisher Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S. continues sale talks, it has lost another senior executive, Deborah Burns. Burns, a 26-year Hachette vet, had been svp for…
Score another victory for freelancers—though full-time journalists might have yet another reason to panic.Thomson Reuters has partnered with the fast-growing Examiner.com, one of a handful of media companies that employs…
In naming its first chief digital officer, Time Inc. is joining other publishing companies that are making high-level moves as they try to prepare their print brands for an increasingly…
What icon did Facebook choose in August for its long-awaited Places location product? A four inside a square, of course. The underlying message seemed clear: The Silicon Valley juggernaut was…
A Manhattan woman is claiming that her privacy rights were violated in a Web "sniffing attack," when an online ad company downloaded a program onto her computer that tracked her…
With multiple factions of the U.S. government dialing up the pressure for stricter privacy guidelines for digital marketing, the Interactive Advertising Bureau is expanding its Washington presence with the formation…
Rupert Murdoch really wants to keep the name of the iPad newspaper his company has thus far barely acknowledged exists.According to Reuters, News Corp. preemptively asked a U.S. Southern District…
Men’s Health and Prevention publisher Rodale has created a new digital team and named its apps guru Matt Bean to a new position, reflecting its view that once-exploratory digital products…
Netflix is starting to become a place where people can watch more of this season’s TV.The company has inked a pact with Disney that will enable subscribers to stream shows…

