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.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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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