Jai singh yahoo biography

Over the last week Yahoo has lost two top people, today editor-in-chief Jai Singh, who came in from the Huffington Post where he was the managing editor in 2011, has left, just one day after Henrique de Castro, the company’s chief operating officer, was fired.

Singh had previously been the founding editor of CNETNews.com, and senior VP and editor-in-chief of CNET.com.

Yahoo has not released any details on why Singh has left and what his severance package might be.

It has been speculated that de Castro will probably be given over $40 million as a parting gift after being in the company for just fourteen months and failing to revive dwindling advertising sales.

Yahoo CEO, Marissa Mayer, sent an internal memo when de Castro was fired saying that the media unit is now under the responsibility of the reputedly divisive Chief Marketing Office Kathy Savitt.

Mayer added that the decision to fire de Castro, who had been running the company’s ad business, was