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Us Online News: Yahoo Still Silent On Today’s Layoffs, But Employees Vent

Posted on December 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Comments Off on Us Online News: Yahoo Still Silent On Today’s Layoffs, But Employees Vent

may be tight-lipped about the layoffs that are taking place at once within the company, but that’s not stopping employees who have been handed pink slips from commotion unattended quietly. A Yahoo employee in the Flickr group just Tweeted added by: Nadia_Khan1

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Was the iPad Breach Enabled By AT&T Layoffs? [Ileak]

Posted on June 14, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Apple should be angry that AT&T exposed iPad 3G owners’ private information to hackers . Layoffs in AT&T’s top security office, which reportedly took place just weeks before the debut of the iPad, should make it positively livid. More

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The AP Layoff List

Posted on November 17, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

The layoffs at the AP are indeed happening today. We’re compiling a list of all the casualties—the ones we hear about and the ones reported elsewhere. Click through for our continuously updated list.

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Six Child Media Prodigies You Should Fear

Posted on November 6, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

That 16-year-old TechCrunch writer with 120,000 Twitter followers, who we wrote about yesterday , is part of a burgeoning child punditocracy.

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Six Child Media Prodigies You Should Fear

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Glenn Beck Survives

Posted on November 5, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

In your thumping Thursday media column: Glenn Beck does not die on the operating table, more rumor-details on the Essence layoffs, Fortune and SI get hacked, and a dying newspaper goes glossy, for unknown reasons. Glenn Beck survived his appendicitis surgery and issued the following real statement : Glenn and his wife Tania are so thankful for all the kind words, prayers and support from everyone

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Cellphone Non-Users: An Ethnographic Study

Posted on October 23, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

85 percent of adult Americans have cellphones, which means 15 percent don’t. Who are these mysterious, ringtone-free luddites

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Cellphone Non-Users: An Ethnographic Study

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Graydon Carter Jets to Bermuda While Layoffs Hit Vanity Fair?

Posted on October 23, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Amid all of the carnage at Conde Nast this month, rumors were floating that Si Newhouse was sheltering his three most precious magazines: the New Yorker , Vogue , and Vanity Fair . Well; the part about Vanity Fair , at least, was wrong. Keith Kelly reports that VF got slammed with layoffs yesterday—layoffs that were made worse by what may have been the company’s protection of the magazine during its last round of cutbacks.

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Layoffs at Forbes?

Posted on October 7, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

A source close to Forbes tells us another layoff round is imminent, the third this year. Ouch.

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Dov Charney’s Tear-Stained Letter to His 1,500 Laid-off Employees

Posted on September 4, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Earlier this summer, American Apparel got nailed for having nearly 2,000 illegal factory workers in L.A.. Now 1,500 of those workers have been fired .

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No, Henry Louis Gates Is Not a ‘Railer,’ a ‘Brawler,’ or a ‘Common Street Walker’

Posted on July 23, 2009 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Since Barack Obama weighed in on the arrest of Henry Louis Gates , we thought it was worthwhile to do a close reading of the law and the arrest report to see just how stupid the Cambridge Police Department was. This account is based on the police report, a statement from Gates’ lawyer , interviews by Gates given after the arrest , and a radio interview that the arresting officer gave this morning. The Call At around 12:45 p.m., Lucia Whalen called 911 to report two African American men wearing backpacks attempting to break into a house on Ware St.

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No, Henry Louis Gates Is Not a ‘Railer,’ a ‘Brawler,’ or a ‘Common Street Walker’

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