Microsoft Web search exec leaving company: source
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The Microsoft Corp.  executive in charge of closing the gap on Web search leader Google Inc  is leaving the company, a source familiar with the situation said on Wednesday.
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Terry Semel  resigned under pressure on Monday as CEO of Yahoo Inc., and the  company handed the reins back to Jerry Yang, the billionaire  co-founder of the search engine that became one of the  Internet&#39;s earliest success stories.
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The senior Microsoft executive who guided the launch of the company's digital music player, the Zune, will be leaving Microsoft to "pursue personal interests."
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InfoWorld - The executive in charge of leading Microsoft&#39;s battle against search giant Google is leaving the company to form his own venture, according to published reports.
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EU official leading antitrust case against Microsoft leaves for consultancy that has software giant as client.
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Microsoft has announced the resignation of its head of acquisitions, Bruce Jaffe, two days after the company bid US$1.2 billion for enterprise search expert Fast Search & Transfer. Jaffe will retire on Feb. 29, the company said.
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Yahoo Inc. Chairman Terry Semel stepped down as chief executive in a surprise move Monday, ending his increasingly ineffectual pursuit of online search leader Google Inc. _ a losing battle that had demoralized Yahoo's shareholders and employees.
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Web search leader Google Inc.  on Thursday said the head of its Web log service, Blogger, will leave at the end of the week to pursue other interests.
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Terry Semel is stepping aside as Yahoo CEO, with co-founder Jerry Yang set to take over the helm.
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A Microsoft Corp. executive responsible for its newly launched Zune digital music player will leave the company.
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By NICHOLS, Lane  A QUALIFICATIONS AUTHORITY employee who took 24 taxpayer- funded computers and sold several over the Internet to make some extra cash has resigned.
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TechWeb - Bryan Lee, who came to Microsoft to run business development for the Xbox, is retiring to pursue personal interests.
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BENTONVILLE, Ark. -- A senior marketing executive hired by Wal-Mart to help sell more high-end products has left the company after less than a year on the job, the world's largest retailer said yesterday.
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Microsoft has tapped a former executive at Walt Disney to fill its CIO position, a move that shows the company continuing to fill top executive positions from outside the company.Tony Scott, who most recently was CIO at Walt Disney, will take over that same role at Microsoft in February, reporting to Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner. Scott, who also will be a corporate vice president at Microsoft, replaces Stuart Scott, who&#160;departed the company in November. The two are not related.Scott will manage Microsoft&#39;s 4,000-person IT organization, which is responsible for all of the technology systems supporting the company&#39;s worldwide sales, marketing, and services operations, as well as the enterprise systems and applications for all corporate processes.At Disney, where he was senior vice president in addition to CIO, Scott was the first CIO to manage the entire company&#39;s IT systems, according to Microsoft. Prior to Disney, Scott was CTO at General Motors and vice president of operations at Bristol-Meyers Squibb.There are a lot of new faces in the ranks of upper management at Microsoft, with a rash of them signing on to the company in the last six months. Just last week Microsoft revealed that company veteran Jeff Raikes, president of its Business Division, will&#160;leave the company in September. The company tapped an outside executive -- former Juniper Networks, Macromedia, and Adobe executive Stephen Elop -- to fill that role.Other new hires to the company since last July include: Dan Reed, Microsoft Research director of scalable and multicore computing in November; Robert Youngjohns, president of North American sales and marketing and corporate vice president in November; Brian McAndrews, senior vice president, Advertiser and Publisher Solutions Group in August; and Don Mattick, senior vice president, Interactive Entertainment Business in July.There is likely more new blood to come as Microsoft also confirmed last week several other executive departures: Bruce Jaffe, corporate vice president of corporate development; Charles Fitzgerald, Microsoft&#39;s general manager of platform strategy; and&#160;Rob Short, corporate vice president of the Windows Core Technology group.Apart from CEO Steve Ballmer and Robbie Bach, president of Microsoft&#39;s entertainment and devices division, many of the company&#39;s other top executives have joined the company in the past three years. They include the man widely seen as Gates&#39; successor, Chief Architect Ray Ozzie, who joined Microsoft in 2005. Kevin Turner, Microsoft&#39;s chief operating officer, and Steve Berkowitz, senior vice president of Microsoft&#39;s Online Services Group, also joined the company that year.
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Microsoft Corp. has turned to an executive at The Walt Disney Co. to fill a vacancy created when the software maker fired its chief information officer.
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Execs at the world's favorite search engine are predicting stormy seas ahead. Does it have anything to do with Microsoft's charge into search and online ad delivery? -washingtonpost.com
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Web search leader Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile, Research) on Thursday said the head of its Web log service, Blogger, will leave at the end of the week to pursue other interests.