Yahoo planning layoffs

Yahoo plans to announce significant cost cuts, including layoffs, possibly as early as Tuesday when the troubled Internet firm announces its third-quarter results, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
The newspaper, citing "people familiar with the matter," said that the exact number of jobs to be cut was not clear but it would be more than the 1,000 jobs the Sunnyvale, California-based company announced it was cutting in January.
The newspaper said some managers in Yahoo, which had 14,300 employees as of the end of June, had been asked to identify operating budget cuts of around 15 percent.
Yahoo has been losing ground on the Web to companies such as Google, MySpace and Facebook, and was the target earlier this year of a failed takeover bid by US software giant Microsoft.
Its share price has shed more than 40 percent over the past three months and was trading on Monday at 12.58 dollars.
In a bid to reverse its fortunes, Yahoo has rolled out several new products and entered into an advertising tie-up with Google but the deal has yet to receive a green light from US Justice Department anti-trust regulators.
(The Daily Star-21.10.2008)