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Aug. 21, 2008 at 8:26am by Barry Schwartz
Microsoft & Yahoo Shuffle Business Internally
While Microsoft and Yahoo move further apart from creating Microhoo, they both continue to make changes internally with the intention of building out a better search company....
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Jul. 24, 2008 at 9:01am by Greg Sterling
Yahoo Acquisition Architect Johnson Departs Microsoft
Kevin Johnson, who was arguably the primary architect of the now apparently failed Yahoo acquisition, is leaving Microsoft to run Juniper Networks. Simultaneously, the company is reorganizing the division that Johnson ran ("Platform Services") into two: Windows and Windows Live + Online Services. Here's the official Microsoft announcement from yesterday....
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May. 28, 2008 at 8:50am by Greg Sterling
Microsoft's Kevin Johnson Profiled By Fortune As "The Man Who Would Run Yahoo"
Microsoft's Kevin Johnson is perhaps the main strategist in the company's battle for online advertising dollars and in some sense driving the future of Microsoft as an entity. Fortune magazine interviews and profiles Johnson. Johnson runs the group that controls the Windows OS and online services, including Live Search....
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Feb. 22, 2008 at 4:30pm by Greg Sterling
Microsoft's Johnson: "Once Yahoo And Microsoft Agree On A Transaction"
This afternoon, Kevin Johnson, president of Microsoft Platforms & Services Division, issued an email to Microsoft employees (that was released via its PR firm). The letter has a tone of confidence that assumes a deal with Yahoo will ultimately take place. It reiterates what Microsoft believes to be the benefits...
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Feb. 20, 2008 at 1:49pm by Greg Sterling
Gates On Yahoo Acquisition: It's The Engineers We Want
CNET reports on Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates' speech at Stanford University yesterday in which he said that it wasn't the advertisers, the brand, or the traffic so much as the engineers that Microsoft wanted in the Yahoo acquisition. Of course, others in the company, including perhaps CEO Steve Ballmer, would...
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Feb. 14, 2008 at 9:00pm by Danny Sullivan
Official: Microsoft Management Reorg Announced; Dueling Ad Groups?
We expected a management shuffle from Microsoft today, and now they've delivered it. The company has announced seven new senior vice presidents and seven new corporate vice presidents. I'll focus on the search and advertising front, where we now have two different senior vice presidents overseeing advertising. Best I can...
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Feb. 14, 2008 at 8:49am by Greg Sterling
Microsoft Executive Shuffle Goes "Live"
The anticipated Microsoft reorganization is now happening. We wrote about it previously with respect to the ouster of Steve Berkowitz. Some are speculating that these changes anticipate a future integration of Yahoo into the company. But Mary Jo Foley says they were in motion well before the announced bid. (NOTE:...
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Feb. 7, 2008 at 5:46pm by Vanessa Fox
Microsoft Live Search Core Relevance Program Management Director Eytan Seidman Moves On
Eytan Seidman, Program Management Director over core relevance for Microsoft Live Search, is leaving Microsoft (and Seattle) after six and a half years and heading to New York to work on a start up with his brother. I talked to him about life at Microsoft, the birth of Live Search,...
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Feb. 6, 2008 at 7:37am by Greg Sterling
Berkowitz Had Hoped To Turn Around Microsoft, But May Find Himself In "Turnaound"
According to CNET, Microsoft isn't waiting for the Yahoo acquisition to happen before it reorganizes. Several internal groups are slated for leadership change, and Steve Berkowitz, former Ask.com CEO and current SVP of Online Services for Microsoft, is apparently part of the changes....
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Feb. 4, 2008 at 12:58pm by Vanessa Fox
Yahoo! Addresses The Troops (And So Does Microsoft)
With all the furor about Microsoft's potential acquisition of Yahoo!, how do the Yahoo! employees feel about the possibility? Top Yahoo! execs addressed employees on Friday and followed it up with a company-wide email. The email emphasizes that the bid was unsolicited, that no decisions have been made, and...
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Jan. 23, 2008 at 9:30am by Barry Schwartz
Google Best Place To Work, According To Fortune Magazine
Fortune Magazine rated Google the best place to work in 2008. Google secured the top spot for a second year in a row because, as Fortune explains, "Google continued to mint millionaires as the stock cracked $700. The company gives stock options to 99% of employees." Microsoft made the list...
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Jan. 11, 2008 at 11:45am by Greg Sterling
Microsoft Business Division Head Raikes Retiring
President of the Microsoft Business Division, Jeff Raikes, is retiring and will be succeeded in that same role at the end of the month by Juniper Networks' COO Stephen Elop. The Business Division controls Microsoft Office, Unified Communications, and Microsoft Business Solutions. The announcement comes a day after news of...
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Jan. 10, 2008 at 8:28am by Danny Sullivan
A Search Product CEO - Necessary To Win The Search Engine Game?
With Jim Lanzone being replaced as Ask.com's CEO, I thought it time to do a piece that's been banging about in my head. Do successful search companies have to have CEOs or top execs who "grew up" from the search product side? The jury is probably still out, but it's...
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Sep. 26, 2007 at 10:09am by Greg Sterling
Microsoft Hoping aQuantive's McAndrews Can Outfox Google
With the aQuantive acquisition now done, Microsoft is moving to try and thwart Google on multiple fronts, both competitive and regulatory. It is lobbying in the U.S. and before the EU to stop the DoubleClick acquisition, arguing it would create an online ad monopoly. And the longer the investigations, discussion...
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Sep. 21, 2007 at 8:03am by Barry Schwartz
Gates, Brin & Page: Top 5 Richest People In Forbes 400
Forbes released its latest The Forbes 400 list, and among the top ten richest Americans are Microsoft's Bill Gates and Google's Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Gates topped the list at number one with a net worth of $59.0 billion. Sergey Brin is listed at number five, with a net...
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Jun. 27, 2007 at 11:32am by Barry Schwartz
Internal Microsoft Email Compares Life At Google Vs. Microsoft
Slashdot linked to a blog post that has what's said to be an internal Microsoft email with a comparison of working at Google versus working at Microsoft. The email is an interview between an ex-Google employee who Microsoft hired. Here are my top hits from this email:...
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Apr. 26, 2007 at 2:45pm by Barry Schwartz
Portfolio.com Releases Executive Profiles Of Search Execs
Gary Price reports that Portfolio.com released a database of top executives profiles, and part of that list includes many of the top executives from our beloved search engines. Here are quick links to some of those profiles of interest:...
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Apr. 25, 2007 at 1:16pm by Danny Sullivan
Live Search's General Manager Leaves Microsoft
Via BetaNews, Yet another Microsoft search exec calls it quits from All About Microsoft covers how Microsoft's Live Search is losing another key executive -- general manager Dane Glasgow. Glasgow is said to be leaving for more time with his family and to purse non-profit interests. Former search chief...
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Apr. 20, 2007 at 3:25pm by Barry Schwartz
Battelle Chats With Microsoft's General Counsel On Google/DoubleClick Antitrust Allegations
News Analysis: Microsoft General Counsel on DoubleClick and Antitrust from John Battelle documents some of his conversation with Microsoft's general counsel Brad Smith today....
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Mar. 22, 2007 at 8:42am by Barry Schwartz
Microsoft Appoints New Head Of Search & Ads
Microsoft has appointed Satya Nadella to head the newly formed Search and Ad Platform Group at Microsoft. Kevin Johnson, the president of Microsoft's Platform Services Division, will be Satya Nadella's boss. Nadella will start his new role on April 19th. He maintains a blog here....
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Mar. 8, 2007 at 10:27am by Danny Sullivan
Microsoft's "Third Era" Of Search Begins With Departure Of Search Chief Christopher Payne
Microsoft's top search executive leaving company from the Seattle PI covers Microsoft's Christopher Payne reportedly leaving the company. The AP also reports similar news from its sources. Payne took over search efforts at Microsoft back in 2003. He oversaw what I'd call Microsoft's "second era" of search, that of...
