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The humble taco: A critical turning point in the economy, or...just a taco?
How bad's the economy?
Dot-com darling Yahoo! yesterday laid off 1,500 employees (bringing to nearly 100,000 the number of laid-off tech workers this year).
Almost lost amid the exiting of the techies and the soundings of doom in Silicon Valley was this odd little tidbit: A small outfit called Tokbox parked a taco truck outside the Yahoo! compound, handing out tortas, burritos, two-ply tacos — and job applications. The video-chat start-up was looking to fill — count 'em — five positions.
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