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Yahoo is to reduce its workforce by 20%

Yahoo has announced that a decision to reduce it sworkforce by 20% was taken. In fact talks about this workforce reduction, have been doing the rounds since the Yahoo former CEO Terry Semel leaving in June 2007.

Yahoo's workforce counts 12,000 and this purge will really be a big strike. According to comScore, the traffic towards different Yahoo applicatons and products is still ahead of Google. But it is not as profitable as Google's.

The Sunnyvale company is actually trying through this move to giv ea strong push to its stock that has poorly performed during the last year and to stay ahead.

Facebook has finally joined the DataPortability Workgroup

Duncan Riley, one of the Techcrunch writer has just announced that Facebook has really joined Google and Plaxo to the DataPortability Workgroup. A surprising news since Facebook previous choice was to stay within a very closed standards.

"The DataPortability Workgroup is actively working to create the ‘DataPortability Reference Design’ to document the best practices for integrating existing open standards and protocols for maximum interoperability (and here’s the key area) to allow users to access their friends and media across all the applications, social networking sites and widgets that implement the design into their systems."

More to come about this new "volte face".