{"id":389,"date":"2008-12-12T11:14:28","date_gmt":"2008-12-12T10:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=389"},"modified":"2022-06-09T12:32:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T11:32:28","slug":"cbs-gets-rid-of-20-of-lastfms-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/cbs-gets-rid-of-20-of-lastfms-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS Gets Rid of 20% of Last.fm&#8217;s Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Last.fm\" href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/\"><img id=\"on9m\" style=\"margin: 1em 1em 0pt 0pt; width: 103px; height: 50px; float: left;\" src=\"http:\/\/docs.google.com\/File?id=dhr6xqrv_337hkzv3khs_b\" alt=\"\" \/>Last.fm<\/a> <a title=\"staff\" href=\"http:\/\/www.last.fm\/about\/team\">staff<\/a> in London were celebrating their Christmas party at a venue complete with hot tub. Through today\u2019s hangover, they heard about 20 percent are being <a id=\"gzl7\" title=\"disposed\" href=\"http:\/\/www.paidcontent.org\/entry\/419-lastfm-lays-off-around-20-staff-part-of-cbs-cnet-integration\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">disposed<\/a> of as parent CBS Interactive (<a class=\"ticker\" title=\"CBS\" href=\"http:\/\/finance.paidcontent.org\/paidcontent?Page=QUOTE&amp;Ticker=CBS\">NYSE: CBS<\/a>) restructures in a cost-cutting move. CBS, which splashed out $280 million in May 2007 on the social music site, confirmed to us \u201caround 20\u201d of its 95 staff are being laid off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last.fm staff in London were celebrating their Christmas party at a venue complete with hot tub. Through today\u2019s hangover, they heard about 20 percent are being disposed of as parent CBS Interactive (NYSE: CBS) restructures in a cost-cutting move. 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