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Google Responds To Staff Departures

Since Google has won all sorts of "best workplace" awards, it at first seemed unusual when high-level employees would leave.  The trend turned weird, then worrisome, as it continued.  But Google's maintaining that its operations haven't been hurt in the least.

Keeping Yahoo Employees Worth $1.5B To Microsoft

Rumor has it that, if Microsoft is successful in acquiring Yahoo, many Yahoo employees will promptly quit in order to receive at least four months' (and up to two years') worth of severance pay.  Now, to make sure some people stick around, it seems Microsoft will spend $1.5 billion.

MySpace Names New Pres. Of Sales And Marketing

A lot of job titles sound completely made-up and superfluous; "President of Sales and Marketing" does not.  Still, the title is at least new at MySpace, and Jeff Berman is the man whose business cards will carry it.

AOL Making More Cuts

In case anyone was wondering whether the recession's over - after all, the stock markets have had a good run lately - it's not.  Not for AOL, anyway, which seems to be carrying on with a string of layoffs.

Ziff Davis Enterprise Restructures In A Big Way

The word "restructuring" is sometimes used as a euphemism when the corporate weed whacker comes out.  The term seems to be genuinely applicable to what's going on at Ziff Davis Enterprise, however, as the company lays off some people, hires others, and shuffles around a third group.

Blogger's Product Manager Moves On

Blogger has repeatedly been ranked among Google's top properties, and now one of the people who got it there is gone.  Blogger's product manager, Eric Case, spent his last day at Google on Friday.

Former Yahoo SVP Starts As OpenX CEO

Tim Cadogan left Yahoo, where he was the senior vice president of Global Advertising Marketplaces, a little more than a month ago.  Today, Cadogan announced that he's joined OpenX, an open source ad delivery company, as its CEO.

Another Yahoo Exec Slips Out

Imagine that you're watching one or two boulders rolling down a hill; in this scenario, you'd actually pay attention to the individual rocks.  But if enough stones started to tumble, you'd become interested in the landslide as a whole, and that's more or less where the departure of Elizabeth Harz from Yahoo comes in.

Official Vista Blogger Moving On

Several of the big Internet companies - Google, Yahoo, and eBay - have lost important employees in the last week or so.  And if it seemed like Microsoft was going to skate through, it's not - Vista blogger Nick White is leaving.

Head Of Apple China Traveling To Baidu

Maybe he's getting paid more, or some interesting perks got tossed in.  Still, Peng Ye's move away from Apple China, where he served as country general manager, seems as good a sign as any of Baidu's dominance.