Yahoo has hired Bryan Lamkin to head up the group that manages some of its highest-profile products and is an essential element of the Yahoo Open Strategy. Lamkin will take on the role of senior vice president of Yahoo’s Applications Products division, which encompasses its e-mail and instant...

Yahoo is preparing to lay off several hundred workers in the first round of cuts since Carol Bartz became chief executive in January, according to claims by a source with knowledge of the situation. The layoffs could be announced next Tuesday, when Yahoo reports its first-quarter financial results,...

The man who police say killed five members of his family before turning the gun on himself in Santa Clara, Calif., on Sunday was identified Tuesday as an engineer at Yahoo, according to an Associated Press report. Devan Kalathat, who had worked at the Internet giant since 2004 as an analytics engineer, shot...

Yahoo boss Carol Bartz open to partnership with social networks YAHOO can’t make the next Facebook but it might want to partner with it, according to chief executive Carol Bartz. The web company’s boss said social network sites are a key area of interest for the internet media company, even as it...

Yahoo teams with newspapers to sell ads Terry Widener has been selling newspaper ads for 35 years. But until last fall, Widener, a 53-year-old saleswoman at The Knoxville News Sentinel in Knoxville, Tenn., had never sold an Internet ad. Then in a two-week sales “blitz” intended to test an...