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Yahoo Names New CFO

On February 26th, Yahoo announced that its chief financial officer, Blake Jorgensen, would be leaving the company.  Now Yahoo has found a replacement in the form of Tim Morse.

More Layoffs Expected At MySpace

A significant number of MySpace employees may soon have to acquire cardboard moving boxes and update their resumes.  Although nothing's certain, there have been several indications that a large wave of layoffs will hit in the near future. 

Yahoo Marketing SVP To Leave Company

In the last few months Jerry Yang spent as CEO of Yahoo, as well as the first few months of Carol Bartz's reign, a lot of people got laid off.  Unfortunately for the company, at least a few valued employees are quitting, too, and a senior vice president is ready to join that second group's ranks.

MySpace Loses Founding Member Of UK Team

MySpace's first international hire is moving on.  Jay Stevens, who was one of the founding members of the MySpace UK team and more recently held the title "Senior Vice President of Audience," has left the social networking company for the advertising entity known as the Rubicon Project. 

Facebook Takes Global Sales Exec From Google

Facebook's convinced yet another important Googler to join its ranks.  Grady Burnett, who held the title "Director, Online Sales & Operations" while working for the search giant in Ann Arbor, will now be in charge of Facebook's global online and inside sales.

Former Googler Becomes Senior Director Of Yahoo Research

In the ongoing employee tug-of-war that the top three search companies are waging, it looks like Yahoo's scored a significant win.  Yoelle Maarek, who used to receive paychecks from Google, has accepted the title "Senior Director of Yahoo Research."

Google Developing Algorithm To Catch Quitters

Unhappy Googlers may soon be supplied with about as many muffin baskets, pats on the back, and intriguing projects as they can handle.  Apparently Google's developing an algorithm to identify which employees are most likely to quit, and it's acting on the info in an attempt to keep top workers around. 

Google's Profit Per Employee = $210,000

When it comes to balancing warm, fuzzy feelings against financial needs, Google's apparently got the formula pat.  Even though Yahoo, Microsoft, and lots of other tech companies have laid off more employees in the past year or so, a new report found that the search giant achieved a significantly better profit-per-employee figure.

Rough Personnel Day At Google, Yahoo

Although the two developments are taking place for different reasons and on very dissimilar scales, both Google and Yahoo were affected by headcount reductions today.  Google's going to lose an important exec, while Yahoo's laying off hundreds of employees.

Yahoo Hires Experienced Adobe Exec

Yahoo's found someone new to manage a collection of its most important offerings.  Bryan Lamkin, who previously worked at Adobe and two venture capital firms, will join the Sunnyvale-based corporation with the title "senior vice president of Applications Products."  Bryan Lamkin