Update 1/26/09: TechCrunch reports FIM to layoff 100 employees, mostly from photobucket and corporate. Lookout LA job hunters, there are now 100 more people to compete with for an Internt job.
12/22/08: Reported on TechCruch today, MySpace parent company Fox Interactive Media (FIM) also comprised of IGN, Rotten Tomatoes, Photobucket, Fox Sports, and more announced efforts to cut costs in this down economy. In a memo from Fox Interactive chief Peter Levinsohn said ” First, have we have reprioritized our hiring needs for the remainder of the fiscal year”. Hire Freeze? Layoffs? and “We have made the decision to discontinue all meal subsidy programs currently being offered at FIM locations, effective January 1, 2009.”
I wonder if they will drop the Guitar Hero program, as the last time I was in their office they had two 60″ TV’s rockin’ with Guitar Hero. Internet companies are slowly loosing the carefree Internet lifesytle….and that make me sad.
MySpace offices in Beverly Hills just off Wilshire near WeHo.
