Laid off, but it won't be for long

Engineers who are being laid off by Yahoo Inc are already being courted by talent-starved Internet companies in China.

Big names such as Baidu Inc and JD.com Inc and small startups have sent out feelers to some of the engineers from Yahoo's soon-to-be-closed Beijing research and development center. In response, lagou.com, a website that matches employees and employers in the burgeoning domestic Internet sector, has already arranged face-to-face meetings.

More than 20 companies and about 30 Yahoo employees showed up to a quickly arranged job fair in Beijing.