Roundup: More cuts at Yahoo, food cuts at Google and more

Here’s the latest action:

More job cuts coming at Yahoo? — Chief executive Jerry Yang has hired consultants from Bain to get the organization “fit.” It’s not likely that means more exercise. SAI has more.

More food benefits slashed at Google — While Yahoos may be losing their jobs, Googlers are just losing select food privileges. Valleywag has more.

Broadcom wins another battle against Qualcomm — The chipmaker scores another victory after a judge rules that Qualcomm is infringing on two of Broadcom’s cell phone patents. CNET has more.

Feds play politics with renewable diesel get rebates — They axed a $1 credit for biodiesel made from left over animal fats, in favor of soybean biodiesel. VentureBeat cleantech writer Chris Morrison says: “Stupid.” Gas2 has more.

Tipjoy raises $1 million — The startup which does micropayments for blogs and other sites hopes to replace the PayPal model which TipJoys’s chief technology officer Ivan Kirigin says is broken for small transactions. The round was led by Betaworks. TheDeal.com has the story.

Tesla plans Bluestar family car — Priced at $20k – $30k, the electric car manufacturer is considering partnering with a bigger company to make it. Unfortunately, this is likely more than two years away from actually happening. CNET has more.

VentureBeat finishes as the most accurate tech blog — This according to Pundit Watch, a service that tracked predictions bloggers made for the past four months.

Major Xbox Live update coming next week — The service may be offline for as much as 24 hours on September 29 as Microsoft implements new features like 3D avatars. It looks like this update won’t include the Netflix “Watch Instantly” feature though, that’ll come later this fall. Gamasutra has more.

Evri launches public beta — We’ve covered the semantic web navigation service before. MarketWatch has more.

Microsoft shuts down Ensemble Studios — The game studio was supposed to make a massively-multiplayer online game set in the Halo universe. No more.

The state of the mobile web — Browser-maker Opera has just released some stats. ReadWriteWeb has them.