Microsoft: Employees
Duane Forrester, Bing’s Webmaster Outreach, Announces He Is Leaving Microsoft
After being fired and then rehired from Bing within a year, Microsoft's Duane Forrester announces he is leaving the...
Nadella Would Bring Search Cred To Microsoft CEO Role
Based on several reports is appears very likely that Microsoft will announce that Satya Nadella will be the next CEO. He brings an engineering...
Potential Microsoft CEO Elop Would Consider Selling Bing
The Microsoft CEO derby is heating up. As we discussed earlier this week the short list is down to a handful of candidates, including current...
Microsoft Hires Hillary Clinton’s Former Campaign Chief Mark Penn For Bing Strategy Role
By all accounts Microsoft is struggling. It’s true that Bing is growing, but only slightly, while partner Yahoo continues to lose search...
Key Microsoft Executive Yusuf Mehdi Leaves Bing Division For XBox
Yusuf Mehdi, who reportedly is the ” longest-running executive in Microsoft’s Online Services Division,” (which houses Bing) is...
Googlers: Single With No Kids & Drinking Mountain View
Rapleaf published some interesting data comparing Google employees to Microsoft employees. TechCrunch published the report, which we will embed...
Bing’s Chief Scientist, Alek Kołcz, Joins Twitter
ReadWrite/Web reports Microsoft’s Principal Scientist of Bing has left to join the Twitter team. Alek Kołcz, formerly a Scientist at...
Microsoft’s CEO, Ballmer: Google Is “Copying” Us
The Seattle Times Newspaper published an interview with Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer. The interview covered many topics but I wanted to...
Ballmer Blogs His Thoughts On Google, China
Both current Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and former CEO Bill Gates have recently spoken out critically about Google’s stance on doing...
Top Microsoft Execs Get A Pay Cut
Appropriately top Microsoft executives, coming off the “worst year ever” for the company, are sharing some of the pain. As...
Microsoft’s adCenter GM & Search Researcher Eric Brill Moves To eBay,
eBay has announced they have hired Dr. Eric Brill as their vice president of research and applied science to lead up eBay’s research labs...
Gulli Leaves Ask.com For Microsoft Bing, Finally Has “Resources”
Ten days ago, we reported that Antonio Gulli left Ask.com after 4 years heading up their technology team in the European R&D center. Gulli...
Microsoft’s Lu A Formidable Search Foe For Google
The NY Times offers an extensive and flattering profile of the former Yahoo EVP Qi Lu who, in January, 2009 was named president of online...
Micro-Hoo: The Details Emerge With SEC Filing
First to pounce on the SEC 8-K filing by Yahoo was PaidContent, which provides an extensive bulleted list of many of the deal terms not revealed...
Microsoft Misses Earnings, Yahoo Board Meets About Potential Microsoft Search Deal
Microsoft reported worse-than-expected earnings yesterday. The company was about a billion dollars off analysts consensus expectations....
Microsoft Announces 3,000 New Layoffs
Today, Microsoft announced that it had delivered layoff notices to 3,000 employees across several divisions (1,200 in Washington state). This...
Who’s Coming & Going In The Search Industry?
Over the weekend, there seemed to be a lot of activity on people coming and going at search companies. I figured I sum up some of those moves in...
Microsoft Cuts Live Labs Staff By Half, Will Focus On Search
PaidContent.org reports that Microsoft’s Live Labs group has been cut in half, and the remaining crew will focus only on search. The...
Long Time Yahoo Search Scientist Jan Pedersen Joins Microsoft
The Yahoo-to-Microsoft defections continue with news today from paidContent.org that Jan Pedersen is the new chief scientist for Live Search....
The Big List Of Search Engines & Their Employees On Twitter
Yesterday, Google joined Twitter with a company account. We twittered a few search engine-related addresses as part of our post about that, but...