Comments on: Digg Laying off 10% of Workforce, Hiring Stronger Sales Team http://pulse2.com/2009/01/22/digg-laying-off-10-of-workforce-hiring-stronger-sales-team/ Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:47:10 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: January 23, 2009 | next media update http://pulse2.com/2009/01/22/digg-laying-off-10-of-workforce-hiring-stronger-sales-team/comment-page-1/#comment-24747 January 23, 2009 | next media update Mon, 26 Jan 2009 16:26:12 +0000 http://pulse2.com/?p=10137#comment-24747 [...] Digg Laying off 10% of Workforce, Hiring Stronger Sales Team PULSE2 Although Digg has about 35 million users registered, they are bleeding money. Although the numbers reported from BusinessWeek earlier were false according to Digg’s CEO*, the company still has yet to achieve profitability. Therefore they are laying off about 10% of their workforce, or about 7 people. However, Digg CEO Jay Adelson reported that the company will be hiring a direct sales force and head of sales to help drive profitability. This is the first time that Digg will be building advertising support structure. Digg’s deal with Microsoft will remain, but the company also plans to create a new advertising support structure. For example, Digg Dialog is a way for the community to interact with government officials and the company would be open for sponsorship of such events. Source> [...] [...] Digg Laying off 10% of Workforce, Hiring Stronger Sales Team PULSE2 Although Digg has about 35 million users registered, they are bleeding money. Although the numbers reported from BusinessWeek earlier were false according to Digg’s CEO*, the company still has yet to achieve profitability. Therefore they are laying off about 10% of their workforce, or about 7 people. However, Digg CEO Jay Adelson reported that the company will be hiring a direct sales force and head of sales to help drive profitability. This is the first time that Digg will be building advertising support structure. Digg’s deal with Microsoft will remain, but the company also plans to create a new advertising support structure. For example, Digg Dialog is a way for the community to interact with government officials and the company would be open for sponsorship of such events. Source> [...]

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