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Qi Lu, former Yahoo search exec, appointed president of Microsoft's Online Services business
The Seattle Times: Microsoft Pri0 —
... Brian McAndrews, senior vice president of the Microsoft Advertiser and Publisher Solutions group, is leaving the company, Microsoft said in a statement. ...
Microsoft taps Yahoo veteran as new online chief
The Microsoft Blog —
... Sean Suchter, the vice president of search technology at Yahoo, to lead its Silicon Valley Search Technology Center. Here's the release . More to come.
Ballmer’s email to the troops on Microsoft’s Qi Lu hire
VentureBeat —
... Microsoft has hired Qi Lu, a former executive with Yahoo, as the new president of its Online Services Group. What does that mean? Lu will be in charge of search and online advertising for the software giant — the two fields which it desperately wants to compete in with Google. ...
Former Yahoo exec to head Microsoft Online Services; Former aQuantive chief quits
All about Microsoft —
... , that the new head of the company’s Online Services Group will be Qi Lu . The Redmondians also announced that Brian McAndrews– Microsoft’s Senior Vice President of the company’s Advertiser and Publisher Group, and former CEO of Microsoft acquisition aQuantive — has decided to leave Microsoft. Given the way Microsoft announced McAndrews’ departure on December 4, it looks as if McAndrews was expecting to get the top search and advertising slot at the company, which was vacated by Kevin Johnson earlier this year. Lu is a former Yahoo who resigned from that company in August ...
Industry Moves: Losing The Battle To Be Microsoft's Digital Head, McAndrews 'Transitions Out'
paidContent —
... to replace Johnson. Despite his good work, in many ways, McAndrews was considered a longshot. The Microsoft purchase made him very rich, and therefore unlikely to want to work for someone else—especially someone like the hard-to-please Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. McAndrews isn't going anywhere at the moment and will take the next few months to "transition out" of his job. So while he ponders his next move, he would be an interesting—and ironic—candidate for Yahoo's open CEO role. Release ...
Microsoft's Google Envy (Part 396)
Bits —
The choice of Qi Lu to run Microsoft’s online services division offers the clearest picture yet about Steve Ballmer’s vision for the company’s online effort. Its colors are blue, red, yellow and green and it is spelled G-O-O-G-L-E. Mr. Lu is not the sort of executive I might have expected Microsoft to pick. When thinking about Jerry Yang’s decision to step down as Yahoo’s chief executive, I ...
Confirmed: Yahoo’s Dr. Qi Lu Left to Head Microsoft’s Search Efforts
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim —
A couple of weeks ago, we reported on rumors that Yahoo’s Dr. Qi Lu had left the company to join Microsoft. Whether or not he left Yahoo with a Microsoft offer-letter in hand–we suspect he did–Dr. Lu has indeed resurfaced at Microsoft.
According to the official release from Microsoft:
Dr. Lu will lead Microsoft’s efforts in search and online advertising and all the company’s online information and communications services. Dr. Lu will report to Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer.
Dr. Lu ...
Ex-Yahoo technologist to run Microsoft's online services group
Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk —
... , Microsoft has confirmed that Dr Qi Lu, formerly Yahoo's search guru, "will lead Microsoft's efforts in search and online advertising and all the company's online information and communications services," starting in January. TechCrunch has ...
Microsoft Hires Head of Online Services from Yahoo
Xconomy —
... ) announced it has appointed Qi Lu as president of its online services group, which encompasses all of the company’s online search, advertising, information, and communications services. Lu was most recently Yahoo’s executive vice president of engineering for search and advertising technology. Before spending 10 years at Yahoo (NASDAQ: ...
Live Search takeaways from CES and more
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews —
... , who uses the FT to push his previous deal to shareholders again. Much is being made of the new Online Services head, Qi Lu, and also the fact that Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is stepping down. ...
Microsoft picks up another Yahoo! search pro
VC Ratings —
... Microsoft recently hired Qi Lu,
who had been executive vice president of engineering for the search and
advertising technology group at Yahoo!, to be president of the online
services group. Microsoft also brought aboard Sean Suchter, a former
vice president at Yahoo!. - Mary Kathleen Flynn ...
Dr. Qi Lu to keynote SMX Advanced
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews —
... In his first public appearance since joining Microsoft, Dr. Qi Lu, President of Microsoft’s Online Services Division, will kick off day 2 of the search marketing expo held annually in Seattle in early June. ...
Countdown to Kumo? Neowin reader spots 40 day clock
LiveSide - Windows Live news and interviews —
... . Dr. Lu, Microsoft Online Services Division President, who spent 10 years at Yahoo! before coming to Microsoft on January 5th, will make his first public appearance in a keynote at 9am pdt on Wednesday June 3rd. We’ll be there, of course, and we’ll have more on Search and SMX Advanced soon, stay tuned. ...
Rumor: Microsoft Kumo Search Expected to Launch on June 2nd
Maximum PC all RSS Feed —
For most users, Microsoft's Live Search is little more than a default setting on new installations of Internet Explorer. This perception is part of why Microsoft has always struggled to gain market share against Google & Yahoo who both hold the number 1 & 2 positions by a fairly large margin. Microsoft has struggled to come up with a strategy for sometime now, but it seems clear that its new strategy is to shed the past by dropping the Windows Live brand in favour of Kumo.
The timeframe for the redesign has been kept secret so far, but ...
Yahoo Microsoft Deal Overview
John Battelle's Searchblog —
... from Carol Bartz's POV. Carol will be at Web 2 this Fall, so will Qi Lu, the man who will own the deal and the search fight with Google. ...
