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Google Consolidating Denver And Dallas Offices

Google's recurring physical expansions may have gone a little too far.  There's word that the search giant now plans to shrink a bit by closing offices in Denver and Dallas.

Yahoo India Continuing To Add Employees

Way back in February, we reported that Yahoo India planned to add around 500 new employees even as the rest of the company fell apart.  Unsurprisingly, the company changed its mind, but the interesting thing is that the rate of hiring has been accelerated.

Cofounders Butterfield, Fake Leaving Flickr

We've moved from embarrassing to scary to ludicrous.  Like it or not, Yahoo's VIPs keep on departing, and Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake, the married cofounders of Flickr, are the latest well-known employees to quit the company.

Yahoo Loses Another Top Exec

June 12th is known as Princess Gwenllian's Day, Lover's Day, and Independence Day in various countries.  And we're ready to call this Run From Yahoo Like It's On Fire Week, as yet another important employee is leaving.

Yahoo's Zawodny Announces Exit

Asked to name one person associated with Yahoo, most people would pick Jerry Yang.  David Filo would be another choice.  Perhaps third out of roughly 14,000 employees is Jeremy Zawodny, though, and within a few weeks, he'll be leaving the company.

Yahoo Exec Expected To Leave

The executive vice president of Yahoo's network division may be heading out the door.  Jeff Weiner apparently plans to return from a four-week paternity leave, but rumor has it he won't stick around for long afterwards.

YouTube's Head Of Monetization Rolls Away

You'd have been hard pressed to find a person with a more important-sounding title at YouTube.  Unfortunately for Google, Shashi Seth, the video-sharing site's head of monetization, has quit.

Facebook CTO Seeking "Career Opportunities"

It looks bad enough when any executive quits a company.  Making the matter potentially worse for Facebook is the fact that Adam D'Angelo served as its chief technology officer.  And strangely, it seems that the CTO position will be eliminated as he leaves.

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.