Worlds Of Work Reversals One

By judy golden To track reversals in the world of work for workers and companies Tuesday  11/10 ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­

Reversals One http://www.xanga.com – NY users create video audio weblog Like MySpace Freindster and Bebo for teens and its in Asia successfully. 5/7 developers gone. http://www.blogrush.com – 2007 blog link swapping by John Reese. Widgets. Closing Fastcompany.com – layoffs from MansuetoVentures in online and marketing. CEO John Koten – digital folds into print operation and Ed Sussmandigital manager leaving. Closing Upstart planned magazine on new businesses and Atlanta office closed for all but sales. http://news.cnet.com/tech-layoffs/ http://www.hp.com – acquired EDS.com and layoff 24,000 in 3 years time. http://www.eqo.com – Richmond Canada – large reduction? Communications company http://www.jellycloud.com - adware purveying turned ad network since 2000 also called Gagor and Claria gone CEO Scott Vandevelde http://www.pandora.com http://www.dell.com – 8900 jobs cut and cost cutting – travel, hiring freeze, employee vbuyouts, take unpaid days off, reduce contract workers. http://www.softchoice.com – Canada 6.5% IT consulting President David MacDonald http://www.redfin – 20% http://qimonda.com – 3000 lay off http://www.autotrader.com – FL classified advertising from Cox Enterpreises clsing Orlando call center and eliminate 69 jobs. Relocating all to Atlanta http://www.matchinemine.com – Mass media recommendations that categorizes analyzed likes and dislikes of media to get right content Closed. CEO Michael Troiano 2007. Kraft investor Playboy magazine – close DVD and layoffs or restructuring Sell content online. http://www.revision3.com – Video removed five video shows and employees Kevin Rose Digg founders company with Jay Andelson – laid off in content : Martin Sargent, Sarah Lane, Gary Vaynerchuk, Zadi Diaz . Video studio. 2006. Jim Louderback from C Magazine. 37% layoff. TV network for web and content for niche subjects http://www.spongefish.com – how-to content user generated closed. Open 2007 http://www.adbrite.com – layoffs 40% VP marketing Paul Levine VP finance Bob Feller are gone. Founded by F**kedCompany.com Philip Kaplan. CEO Iggy Fanlo perfomrane based CPM model not previous brand based service. http://www.zivity.com – adult social network let go of 1/3 of people CTO Jordan Ritter from Napster. Nudity site.

By judy golden

To track reversals in the world of work for workers and companies Tuesday  11/10 ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­

Reversals One http://www.powerreviews.com – CA VP marketing Jay Shafffer. 30% layoff amazon like product review features added into a site and they aggregate reviews from client retailers on their customer facing site Buzzillions. Andrew Chen CEO http://www.motorola.com – layoff 3000 http://www.symantec.com – 4.5% cost savings layoffs coming http://www.avalanchestudios.com – 50% layoff http://www.jivesoftware.com – layoff 1/3 – CMO Sam Lawrence. VP engineer Marty Kagan and VP sales Scott Campbell not out. Web collaboration for businesses and enterprises. Their products include Clearspace. P2P lenders Prosper and Zupa and Lending Club – Prosper suspended new lending to register with S.E.C. to make secondary marketplace for loans on its site. Lending Club also and Zopa closed P2P lending site. Prosper has sub prime loans. Prosper and Lendingclub.com in CA and Zopa.com in UK. Lendingclub.com got S.E.C. approval and restricted to 16 states not CA or TX. Lendingclub.com focus on Prime lending. Lendingclubstats.com http://www.fleck.com – Boris Velhuijzen van Zanten Holland and Patrick de Laive for sale – service for user to annotate web page. 2006. http://www.hi5.com – layoff 10% in design, HR, QA and there is VP Marketing Mike Trigg http://www.techcrunch.com/tag/deadpool/ - Michael Arrington Tech Crunch Viacom layoffs coming? Cancelled holiday party. Employees to take 2 more days off by end of year. Yahoo layoffs about 10% - from 15m to lose 1500 – fees revenue, affiliate revenue, O & O search, http://www.pandora.com – music streaming Tim Westergren founder – 20/140 laid off NBC Universal – Jeff Zucker CEO 3% budget cuts coming. Telemundo TV unit cut 5% http://www.heavy.com – NYC video site for young men 15% removed http://www.sirius.com – 50 employees removed in layoff http://www.zillow.com – Seattle real estate – 25% removed from CEO Rich Barton http://news.cnet.com/tech-layoffs/ - from Rafe Needleman CNet http://www.xerox.com – print and document services – 5% CEO Annie Mulcahy http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-10073202-2.html - 10 things to day on the day after you are laid off – by Rafe Needleman CNet Webware

By judy golden

To track reversals in the world of work for workers and companies Tuesday  11/10 ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­

Reversals One http://www.lulu.com – No Carolina book publish President Bryce Boothby gone 20% cut. Founder and CeO Bob Young http://www.affinitycircles.com – social networking software for alumni and trades 15% layoff http://www.myspace.com – layoffs in QA and marketing. http://www.razorfish.com – MS – 40 people in NY Clark Kokich CEO http://www.wildtangent.com – gaming closing studio and 20% layoff Sean Sundwall AJ Redmer from MS. Now has 80 people aol.com – closing AOL pictures, bluestring and xdrive in December and AOL journals and AOL hometown. http://www.glam.com –womens site publisher and ad network. Not paying partner publishers. Glam Media. http://www.faves.com – social network formerly Blue Dot – recommendations – laid off last 2 people . http://www.pricegrabber.com – CA shopping comparison – layoff – built on Perl http://www.shopzilla.com – CA shopping comparison – layoff – built on Java http://www.skyrider.com – p2p closed Nielsen Business Media – closing social network market research Hey! Nielsen and reorg Adweek Media Group with layoffs in editorial and from travel and performance and retail food group brands. Adweek, Brandweek, Mediaweek – Mike Chapman, Todd Wasserman and Michael Burgi http://www.veoh.com – video layoffs in RU and closed that office – 20% layoff in CA. Internet TV service with broadband connection. http://www.maholo.com – Jason Calaconis CEO – 10% layoff search and directory freelance instead of in house editors http://www.comcast.net - cable operator losing 300 jobs in Eastern Division (total of 100k peole) http://www.ticketmaster.com – ticket sales and distribution from IAC – 35% layoff. http://www.maniatv.com – 2004 video portal reduce amount of original content less 20 people 20/500

By judy golden To track reversals in the world of work for workers and companies Tuesday  11/10

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Reversals One http://www.permissiontv.com – white label video operator laid off 6 and hired 3 in sales http://www.imeem.com – music social network and hired investment banker to sell them layoff 25% http://www.daptiv.com – WA project management 14% layoff http://www.wildtangent.com – WA games layoff 1/5. http://www.break.com – CA video sharing CEO Keith Richman. Layoff 11 people/80 http://www.searchme.com – visual search engine layoff 20% CEO Randy Adams former Adobe and Internet Shopping Network. http://www.skyrock.com – France teen site for sale CEO Pierre Bellanger Sony Ericsson Nvidia – 6% https://www.cakefinancial.com/ - Cake Take, Scout and Cakedex – stock rating and index funds track brokerage accounts investing CA Stephen Carpenter (realnetworks) and Laurence Toney (nike) and Sven Junkergård, Vice President of Engineering 30% layoff http://www.meraki.com – wireless networking from MIT lab. CA Sanjit Biswas John Bicket Hans Robertson Michael McBride Ivan Montoya Paul Martecchini. Hardware and integrated hosted services to deploy wireless over large area. Mesh wifi with MIT roofnet technology – layoffs? http://www.zippo.com – layoff 46 people http://www.linkedin.com – 10% layoff (39/370)– professional social network – some employees laid off to be assigned to new jobs http://www.wikipedia.com – wiki search 10% layoff in CA Jimmy Wales founder in 2004 Wiki creation software and wiki based search services. Site uses same wiki software ap as Wikipedia called MediaWiki http://www.digitalrailroad.net – Closed – photo and digital media. http://www.wiquest.com – closed TX had 120 people for wireless USB protocol Chip ultrawideband. http://www.revver.com – media network and syndication network with videos has financial problems

By judy golden To track reversals in the world of work for workers and companies Tuesday  11/10 ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­

Reversals One http://www.overstock.com – to restate earnings from 2003 to present. http://www.yousendit.com – 20% layoff – file delivery service http://www.yapta.com – Seattle 2006 track airfare prices layoff 25% http://www.emusic.com – 10% layoff – entertainment retail of indie music and audio book, music subscription, need CEO and David Pakman CEO since 2004 leaving. Whirlpool.com – layoff 5000 and closes facility in Jackston Tenn http://www.timeinc.com – magazine publisher 6% layoff in all 24 magazines reorg into three units with different business head with ad sales, digital, finance and editorial. Eah unit with one GM budgets reporting to EVP CFO Howard Averill. News/Style and Entertainment and Lifestyle. Stephanie George president ad sales and marketing. http://www.gannett.com – 10% layoff of editors in 80 local dailies. Divison president newspapers Robert Dickey. CEO Craig Dubow to reduce salary 20% really 3% LA Times – 10% of news staff 12000 jobs lost in newspaper industry. http://www.evo.com – CA - company closed http://www.impremedia.com – CA layoff in digital – Hispanic social network http://www.equals.com – communication tool for social network closing US business and focus on IN http://www.elance.com – 20%? From hiring to collaboration to payment online workplace. http://www.hautesecure.com – protection from malware 2006 Iain Mullholland CTO Frank Swiderski architect and Steve Anderson from Starbucks PM and strategy. Layoffs? Eons.com – MA 8 employees out 8/25 online community for BOOMers born 1946-1964 Ebay – 1500 Helium.com -30% - citizen journalism and online community Mark Ranalli CEO Suggestionbox.com – CA 7 employees out

By judy golden To track reversals in the world of work for workers and companies Tuesday  11/10 ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­

Reversals One

Trackers – techcrunch, cnet, wired.com, seattlePI Tracker, http://www.broadsoft.com – VoIP applications – layoff 12/300 in sales, PM engineering http://www.condenast.com – cut back Portfolio and Men’s Vogue issues and layoffs. President David Carey. http://www.electronicarts.com – 6% layoff 540/9000. CEO John Riccitiello http://www.60frames.com – video studio 40% layoff CA. Execs from UTA talent agency and TV ad company SpotRunner. 2007. Resources to pro artists creating programming for net and other digital media platforms. http://www.jaxtr.com – CEO Konstantin Guericke removed and replaced by VP engineering Bahman Koohestani – from Cyworld and Orbitz – link your phone. VOIP and social net 30% layoff CA. widget for user to get calls from friends thru VOIP connection and keep phone number private. http://www.aliph.com – Jawbone CA 30% layoff. http://www.pheedo.com - RSS weblog marketing CA 2003 – profit driven advertising service thru distributed content for publisher and advertiser. Missing payments to partners. http://www.sugar.com – Brian Sugar blog network layoff 9. NBCU strategi c investor. http://www.inform.com – page view boost with publishers. NY 20 layoff. Joe Einhorn Business Week – shutting down BusinessWeek TV personal finance series layoff 9 including Producer Eric Gonon http://www.rodale.com – health publisher 10% layoff – 115 people – they publish Mens Health, Prevention, Womens Health, Runners World. Emmis communications – IN media 4% of Emmis Radio layoff and salary cuts over 50k. MTV and Sony – layoffs coming http://www.circuitcity.com – closing 155 stores Seattle Times – 10% layoff http://www.thq.com – games publisher closing four studio and layoffs. – Paradigm Ent and Locomotive Games. Mass Media and Sandblast Games shut down. Maybe Helix Studios Juice Games layoff 30-40 and Volition layoffs. http://www.wildtangent.com – Sea casual gaming closed internal studio and 1/5 layoff. CEO Alex St John out and its Mike Peronto co founder as chair http://www.spotrunner.com – CA TV ad agency 30% layoff. CEO Nick Grouf. Local search and video advertising – tv, telco, video ad inventory. http://www.dash.net – 65% layoff – express car GPSCA http://www.intransa.com – external scalable IP video storage 3=9/33 lay off. 2000.

By judy golden To track reversals in the world of work for workers and companies Tuesday  11/10 ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­

Reversals One

http://www.nokia.com – Finland – to cut 600 jobs especially sales and marketing and R&D center. http://www.facetime.com – CEO Kailash Ambwani– layoffs and reduce operating expense by 30%. Security solutions for business to secure control greynet apps like IM Skype web conference and P2P http://vidoop.com – uses OpenID protocol for sign off. Single sign on application http://www.brightcove.tv.com – close free ad supported hosting service and the brightcove.tv site for videos University of Michigan Health System – freeze non patient care jobs in hospitals and health centers and layoffs to come. U-M http://www.tektronix.com – 150 laid off in Oregon Washington County. Tektronix bought by Danaher Corp. http://www.amd.com – 500 employees – will split into two companies for Chips and for Manufacturing – The Foundry Company. Layoff not affecting The Foundry Company. http://www.engenera.com– virtualization software for the data center in Mass. Mike Thompson CEO. 87 jobs world wide and some in Mass http://www.avid.com – video edit software in Mass – 54 in Mass and 20 in NH http://www.verizon.com – layoffs 36 people in Mass and RI http://www.aqr.com – AQR Capital – total employees are 180 and 40-60% layoff November. Cliff Asness http://www.goldmansachs.com – lost 3200 jobs http://www.playboy.com – CFO Linda Havard – 80 layoffs recent and total 140 in 2008 – 17% http://www.zappo.com – CEO Tony Hsieh – shoe store. 8% layoff. Close outlets in NV and KY http://www.jumptap.com– MA mobile search and advertising so ops and content pubs control their mobile traffic with chance for the advertisers to deliver relevant ads. Major layoff http://www.intersil.com – 9% layoff – Chips in CA and FL – 140 employees Dave Bell CEO http://www.cadence.com – 12% layoff – Chips in CA http://www.sandisk.com – 15% layoff

By judy golden To track reversals in the world of work for workers and companies Tuesday  11/10 ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­

Reversals One http://www.cocomment.com – acquired by JS-Kit.com comment aggregator

http://www.mywaves.com – video 20% layoff http://www.bittorrent.com – file sharing system CA P2P delivery. Ashwin Navin President CEO left and CTO Eric Klinker now CEO. 2004. http://www.leads360.com – CA lead managements 20% layoff. Customer acquisition and lead management solutions for companies http://www.google.com – layoffs coming http://www.scripps.com – EW Scripps 400 newspaper jobs cut. http://www.orbitz.com – 10% layoff global travel http://www.poptok.com – 20% layoff – video messenger takes snippets from movie TV show music video and personalize and digitize to express someone in conversations. The scenes and lines are Toks. http://www.cyworld.com – South Korea social net 1999 bought by SK Telecom came to US and now returning to Korea http://www.sugar.com – Sugar Inc. Pop Sugar Brian Sugar blog network 11% layoff editorial division http://www.gizmos.com -30% layoff 2003 character based visual expression for digital http://www.begborrowsteal.com – 20% layoff – avelle.com – Mike Smith CEO. “Netflix of handbags” Boston Globe laid off 42 people in MA Circuit City filed bankruptcy Chapter 11 and 300+ layoffs and 155 stores closed – 20% electronics retail high debt to HP, Sony.. DHL laid of 9500 people and closing US service centers the US ground hubs and reduce number of stations from412 to 103 in US. Germany company with 18000. http://www.appcelerator.com – CEO Jeff Haynie open source tools for Internet apps closing Atlanta office and laid off 6 people there. http://www.leads360.com – 20% layoff. CA. Customer acquisition and lead management solutions for company on the internet for lead generation. B2C Goldman Sachs – laid off 13 analyst in 10% - 3200 employee headcount reduction included finance services William Tanona and newspaper Peter Appert. http://www.near-time.com – Closing