Yahoo to close offices across Northern Europe The crisis at Yahoo has reached Europe. Yahoo will be closing some offices across Northern Europe. The offices in Scandinavia, Netherlands and several small ones in Germany will close as of january 1st, 2009. The Yahoo representative ensured me that all Yahoo activities in these countries will be unchanged. Advertisers and other clients can still use the Yahoo Search Marketing advertising platform the same way as they do right now. Just like with Google, the Europe based offices of Yahoo are basically sales offices to service the large local clients. The local offices also have a minor marketing role. From january 1st, 2009 this role will be taken over from the closing offices by the Yahoo offices in Dublin and London. Cut expenses But the real reason Yahoo has to close several offices in Europe is the fact that they refused the Microsoft take over bid early this year. Yahoo seemed to get away with it by sealing an advertising deal with Google, but that didn't work out as well with Google killing the agreement. This all made it worse for Yahoo with CEO Jerry Yang stepping down recently as a result. The fact that Yahoo's head of Europe Toby Coppel stepped down seemed to be the final step for Yahoo to close some European offices. What does this mean for the search landscape? As long as Yahoo keeps adding value for consumers, they will be interesting enough for advertisers to spend their money with Yahoo. But if Yahoo can't keep advertisers satisfied, they'll have a hard time surviving in the Google dominated Europe.
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ValleyWag claimed they obtained a document which instructs Yahoo managers how to tell people they've lost their job.
You can find the copy here:
http://valleywag.com/5106184/yahoos-secret-layoff-doublespeak-revealed
Ma 15 dec 2008, 13:48