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Former Yahoo Scientist Heads To Microsoft

It looks like Microsoft has won another round of the hiring game.  Jan O. Pedersen, who used to work for Yahoo and was more recently employed by Amazon subsidiary A9.com, has joined Steve Ballmer's Redmond-based corporation as chief scientist of Live Search.

Google To Eliminate 200 Positions

Google represented something of a bright spot during the past few months; while other tech companies made layoffs, the search giant just slowed its hiring spree.  Unfortunately, Google became part of the downsizing pattern this afternoon, announcing the elimination of 200 sales and marketing positions. 

Personnel Moves Foreshadow Future For Hulu, Twitter

It looks like Hulu and Twitter are growing up.  The first company has made a hire that signals a stronger-than-ever desire on its part to expand overseas, while the second has advertised openings for three different types of product managers.

Ex-Googler Describes Company's Obsession With Data

While you've probably never stopped to consider the height of the "more options" arrow on Google's homepage, it's apparently quite possible that hundreds of man-hours were put into determining its size.  Google's visual design lead announced today that he's leaving the company, and minutiae like this drove him to the decision.

Yahoo To Lose Top Exec

It looks like (in more than one sense) poor old Yahoo still hasn't plugged all of its leaks.  Marco Boerries, Executive Vice President of the Connected Life Division, is going to quit, and word of the move escaped a little earlier than he and CEO Carol Bartz might have liked.

Android Engineering Director Joins Coupons, Inc.

Steve Horowitz may seem familiar to fans of Google's Android operating system; he's written blog posts, given presentations, and even appeared in a YouTube video with Sergey Brin.  But Android's going to have to get along without him, as Horowitz has moved from Google to Coupons, Inc.

Delicious Founder And Former Yahoo Goes To Google

The shortest drivable route between the headquarters of Google and Yahoo is a little more than five miles long, taking people around a golf course, Moffett Federal Airfield, and Ames Research Center.  We'd like to recommend that Google build a direct tunnel to make the ongoing employee transfer easier.

Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon Said To Still Be Hiring

Last week, some fairly devastating unemployment stats renewed comparisons between what we're going through now and the Great Depression.  Fresh reports indicate that at least a few major tech companies are still happily chatting up potential employees, though.

LiveJournal Makes Deep Personnel Cuts

For a short time there, it had started to feel like we were getting away from layoff stories; tales of 20 or 30 percent cuts stopped popping up every day or so.  Unfortunately, LiveJournal seems to have been hit rather hard, now, as a fresh report has about 71 percent of its employees losing their jobs. (Edit: see update.)

Google Makes Another Best Places To Work List

The company may be tightening restrictions on free food, charging lots of money for childcare, and handing out cell phones instead of proper holiday bonuses.  But according to new findings from Glassdoor, good old Google remains one of the best places to work.