★ Yahoo! France goes striking, goes Google.
… Well at least French are up to their reputation…
Yahoo French workers are going on strike because the company has decided to close one of the biggest european R&D center in the city of Grenoble. The French team has opened a website on Blogger and published a video on youTube while encouraging web users to participate via Google Friend Connect.
Despite multiplying its profit by more than 300% in the third quarter of 2009, mostly through cost-cutting, Yahoo! is planning to lay-off all its engineers currently located in France. This would put an end to the Yahoo! R&D centre in Grenoble inaugurated last year in great fanfare with the french minister of economy Christine Lagarde.
This lay-off project was announced a few days after Carol Bartz said that: “Six per cent operating margin is terrible, terrible… We have a commitment that it will be 15-20% in the next three years,” she said at a lunch talk organised by the American Chamber of Commerce in Singapore
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Here is a video posted by the strikers :
