Microsoft shakes up online team ahead of Yahoo
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Microsoft Corp  announced a  management shake-up at its loss-making online division on  Thursday, thrusting an outsider into a prominent position ahead  of a proposed merger with Yahoo Inc .
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Yahoo is the latest firm to move off the web and onto PCs, offering search tools for desktops.
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Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday announced a reorganization that marks Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker as a potential successor as CEO and simplifies its structure as it battles faster-growing rival Google.
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By Michael Liedtke Associated Press  SAN FRANCISCO - Yahoo! Inc. is tackling its most difficult challenge since the dot-com bust with sweeping organizational changes aimed at cleaning up a mess of the Internet icon's own making.
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Microsoft Corp. plans Tuesday to officially launch its updated and renamed Internet search engine, the latest step in a massive effort to make headway against market leaders Yahoo Inc. and Google Inc.
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Microsoft's COO hasn't been at the company as long as Gates or Ballmer, but he's learning the ropes. Now, he's spreading the word on new online services. Are partners listening?
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Microsoft is preparing to release a new suite of applications under the Windows Live umbrella, further upping the ante in its battle to fend up growing competition from the likes of Google and Yahoo. The effort is the next step in Microsoft's transition to software-plus-services.
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Microsoft confirmed&#160;a number of high-level executive changes, moves that could be designed to better position the company to digest an acquisition of Yahoo, an analyst said.
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The Yahoo bid is a dramatic statement from Microsoft, a company that delayed acknowledging the importance of emerging Web business models for so long.
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Microsoft gives added titles and responsibilities to more than a dozen executives, naming some new leaders in its Windows, Windows Mobile and Windows Live efforts. Three previously reported departures are confirmed.
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Microsoft overhauls its search site and Yahoo changes are coming, following site redesigns at Google and Ask.com in search version of duck, duck, goose.
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Microsoft announced a management shake-up at its loss-making online division, thrusting an outsider into a prominent position ahead of a proposed merger with Yahoo.
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Yahoo will upgrade its My Yahoo personalized home page in the coming weeks, the company's CEO said.
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Major management shakeups have become frequent at Yahoo in the past 10 months, as the company urgently tries to compete better, not only against archrival Google Inc. but also against nimble start-ups, and turn around its generally disappointing financial performance.
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Microsoft Corp.  picked two  well-respected technical minds to fill the void from founder  Bill Gates&#039; pending departure in two years, but it also  identified a next tier of leaders charged with reinventing the  software giant to compete against younger, agile rivals.
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Yahoo Inc.  on Tuesday announced a reorganization that marks Chief Financial Officer Susan Decker as a potential successor to the CEO and simplifies its structure as it battles faster-growing rival Google.
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Yahooâs huge user base could provide the audience and the infrastructure for Microsoft to change how it distributes its products and charges for them.