United Online over the last few weeks have been slowly letting their employees go.

Most of the high level executives are all ready leaving or pushed out and receiving decent severance packages.

United Online is keeping their heads above water with the classesusa flagship product.

Employees mentioned that, too much structure @ United Online, and it will be difficult to re-vamp classes usa to keep up with the web 20 market.

Facebook is taking their market share.

As of right now, 8 people combination of front end technology employees and Project Managers…

More info coming shortly

Everything from VP’s to Marketing people.

People are running away, LowerMyBills is starting to deteriorate

They are all look for new roles…

More Info coming,

However

Experian Interactive, LowerMyBills.com and Leadpoint all are having massives layoff’s

Everywhere from 10-50% of their staff

More details coming shortly

Whoever posted that earlier post was wrong. Confirmed from a VC that Adteractive was acquired for 20-30m

Spoke to some insiders recently who have confirmed that Helio is trying new c level management and early investors are trying to get out.

Goodbye Helio

http://www.financialpost.com/magazine/story.html?id=324817

Please read. Geosign along with other companies in the domain space are facing declining quality in their domain networks (GoDaddy, Oversee.net, Domainsponsor, DemandMedia, TrafficZ and more)

According to multiple internal resources, DedicatedMedia is a Acquisition target by AOL and a few other large search companies

Experian has a team of 30 engineers in the lake forest area. They are officially laying most of them off.

Poor Experian.

Observe this recent article.

http://dnjournal.com/cover/2008/march.htm

According to other sources, Oversee.net has let go of multiple employees at Moniker & Snapnames

Many Oversee employees are heading over to TrafficZ and Vantage Media.

Can this be the infliction point for Oversee.net?

Following multiple conversations over the last few weeks, SpeicifcMedia.com has acquired some top talent in to their company, and is continuing to make positive headway in the space.

SpecificMedia is located in Southern Calfornia, and is currently expanding rapidly.

It has been confirmed that Adteractive has finally been acquired for slim to nothing.

The price was between 80-120 million.

Not too long ago, Adteractive was worth at it’s peak around 400-650 million.

Entrepreneurs should learn a lesson from this event, and realize if the opportunity arises, don’t be too greedy.

Sorry to say, AutoBytel is heading downhill along with their recently launched car enthusiast social networking site;

See traffic here;

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/Autobytel.com+MyRide.com/?metric=uv

Down here is Southern California, watch out for a rough migration b/w liveuniverse

See article here
http://www.contentinople.com/author.asp?section_id=429&doc_id=142633

I speculate some potential filings this year

Eharmony.com

DemandMedia.com (Just so they can clear their debt)

Who else do we speculate?

This is interesting.

Met the woman in charge of Operations @ Hulu.com on a flight recently.

She mentioned only good things about the company.

Then, this morning I wake up and find out that 2 senior executives @ Hulu.com have put their resumes out and are putting feelers out.

I know HULU.com pays great money to retain and attract talent, however, is the lack of being a true PRIVATELY held company not enough to keep these people?

Are companies like SiTv, Buzznet, Veoh and others strong enough to attract and pull these top executives? Time will tell, this is NOT a good time for HULU.com to be allocating resources to scaling. There is some big competition and traffic DOES not grow overnight.
Interesting

Rumor from multiple engineers at the company say Layoff’s are coming

I think it is about time, investing 200m+ in to Helio and outsourcing their tech team was not a good sign.

People are just walking out with ears open from this company..

As you can see from traffic here

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/autobytel.com/?metric=uv

Site traffic is declining. Sorry Autobytel, the time has come for a new ceo and discuss strategy

Someone mentioned that they decided to cut the push out of launching a new spanish auto portal.

Although, MyRide.com is doing well from what I hear. Maybe that will hold them up.

I heard they have been working hard on it and are releasing a new edition at Iowa. Should be better then the first