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This coming Tuesday and Wednesday will not be remotely jolly for some AOL employees; according to various reports, another round of layoffs is in the making.
Numbers are nonexistent, so we remain unsure of just how widespread the firings will be.  Yet Henry Blodget writes, “[W]ord is the Products and Sales teams are going to [...]

Want a snapshot of the day’s search marketing news? Here we’ve collected today’s top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web:
From the SEW Blog:

YellowPages.com Explains Ingenio AcquisitionYellowpage.com CEO Charles Stubbs made a surprise appearance at ILM:07/ SES Local today to talk about AT&T’s acquisition of [...]

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Though Yahoo Europe has been given until the end of the first quarter next year to improve their numbers or face closing, their new hire of Kristof Fahy - former brand manager for BlackBerry and telephone service provider Orange - shows they do not plan on going out without giving it a hard shot.
Fahy dealt [...]

European Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes isn’t quite ready to rubber-stamp Google’s acquisition of DoubleClick.Back in October, Kroes said competition, not privacy, would be the focus of the Commission’s review of Google’s $3.1 billion purchase of ad network DoubleClick. Many thought this indicated a swift review followed by approval of the deal would be the result.
It [...]

When Alibaba holds its IPO, Yahoo will be first in line, and the search engine company will reportedly have enough cash in hand to buy 10 percent of the available shares.
We last touched on Alibaba’s IPO about two months ago; at the time, it remained unknown if the offering would even take place.  Now [...]

I just received an email letting me know that Yahoo Panama is starting to beta test the Quality Score rankings in Europe.
The email states:
Dear Advertiser,
Yahoo! Search Marketing is constantly striving to improve both the advertiser and customer experience, with the goal of providing the most relevant and targeted listings as users search, click and travel [...]

According to Yahoo and Eurosport, a new agreement between the companies will create “Europe’s leading online sports news and community sport site.” This Great and Magnificent Thing (which lacks a name at present) should come into existence in May, and rollout will initially be limited to the UK, Germany, and Italy.
Don’t be turned off [...]

It may be a cliche, but it remains true: There’s no such thing as a bad sale. And one search engine company just initiated a heck of a sale - more like a permanent price cut, actually - on its minimum bid prices. Americans may want to get out their currency calculators, though, [...]