Google announces layoffs?

Misleading title. They only did layoffs at DoubleClick, typical for a merger.

The article reminded me of the comedy "translation" of Adobe's aquisition of Macromedia done some years ago. <a href="http://daringfireball.net/2005/04/adobe_translation" rel="nofollow">http://daringfireball.net/2005/04/adobe_translation</a>