Yahoo to cut 1,700 workers as boss tries to save her own job

Yahoo is laying off about 1,700 employees in a shake-up likely to determine whether chief executive Marissa Mayer can save her own job.

The long-anticipated purge will jettison about 15% of Yahoo’s workforce along with an assortment of services Ms Mayer decided are not worth the time and money that the Internet company has been putting into them.