1/21: Yahoo layoffs updates

Mashable confirms 100’s of layoffs per the New York Times. CEO Yang is considering a potential 100 to 2500 layoffs.

PaidContent: NYT expands on upcoming Yahoo layoffs (which we reported on over): it cites sources and says will be “hundreds of employees” out of a total of about 14,000. It says company executives are still trying to determine exactly which areas will be cut and a few variations of a plan would be submitted to the company’s board at a coming meeting.

WSJ also weighs in with a story: Yahoo expects to finish 2008 with about the same number of workers as it had at the end of 2007 while planning to add staff in some areas deemed priorities.