Microsoft: Employees

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Thu 28 Jan 2010

Ballmer Blogs His Thoughts On Google, China

Posted by Admin under Google: Critics, Google: Outside US, Latest Info, Legal: Censorship, Microsoft: Employees, Microsoft: Outside US

Both current Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and former CEO Bill Gates have recently spoken out critically about Google’s stance on doing business in China. (See my previous posts, Ballmer Critical Of Google’s China Decision and Like Ballmer, Bill Gates Dings Google On China.)
Now, Ballmer is putting his thoughts in writing … well, electronic writing [...]

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Wed 30 Sep 2009

Top Microsoft Execs Get A Pay Cut

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Microsoft: Business Issues, Microsoft: Employees

Appropriately top Microsoft executives, coming off  the “worst year ever” for the company, are sharing some of the pain. As PaidContent reports, the top executives at the company took a compensation hit based on the sales and revenue declines. Here are some of the numbers:

CEO Steve Ballmer $1.265 million vs. $1.34 million a year ago
CFO [...]

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Thu 24 Sep 2009

Eric Brill, That’s On eBay: Microsoft’s adCenter GM & Search Researcher Leaves

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Microsoft: Business Issues, Microsoft: Employees

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 team. Prior, Dr. Brill was General Manager of adCenter Labs at Microsoft and before that, he Director and Principal Researcher and head of the Text Mining, Search and Navigation [...]

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Mon 31 Aug 2009

Gulli Leaves Ask.com For Microsoft Bing, Finally Has “Resources”

Posted by Admin under Ask: Business Issues, Ask: Employees, Latest Info, Microsoft: Business Issues, Microsoft: Employees

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 announced his new plans are to continue in search, but switch ships and work for Microsoft Bing.
Gulli said he will be “leading all the engineering development for UX and verticals [...]

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Mon 31 Aug 2009

Microsoft’s Lu A Formidable Search Foe For Google

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Microsoft: Bing, Microsoft: Employees, Microsoft: Partnerships

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 services for Microsoft. Lu was deemed an unlikely appointment by some given his background not as a business and advertising executive but rather as an engineer. However, he was apparently instrumental [...]

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Wed 5 Aug 2009

Micro-Hoo: The Details Emerge With SEC Filing

Posted by Admin under 1, Business Issues: Acquisitions & Investments, Google: Business Issues, Latest Info, Microsoft: Business Issues, Microsoft: Employees, Microsoft: General, Microsoft: adCenter, Search Ads: Contextual, Search Ads: General, Search Ads: Mobile Search

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 last week during the frenzy of conference calls and articles that followed the official announcement of the Microsoft-Yahoo search deal. CNET also writes about selected aspects of the deal [...]

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Fri 24 Jul 2009

Microsoft Misses Earnings, Yahoo Board Meets About Potential Microsoft Search Deal

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Microsoft: Bing, Microsoft: Business Issues, Microsoft: Employees, Microsoft: Partnerships, Microsoft: adCenter, Yahoo: Partnerships, Yahoo: Search, Yahoo: Search Ads

Microsoft reported worse-than-expected earnings yesterday. The company was about a billion dollars off analysts consensus expectations. According to the Microsoft release, the company had huge revenues but still missed:
$13.10 billion for the fourth quarter ended June 30, 2009, a 17% decline from the same period of the prior year. Operating income, net income and diluted [...]

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Wed 24 Jun 2009

More Former Yahoo!’s Head to Microsoft; Weiner Upgrades to LinkedIn CEO

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Microsoft: Employees

The reasons for Microsoft to still consider a deal with Yahoo! diminished even further this week as news broke that three former Yahoo!’s have been recruited to Microsoft. They aren’t the first. You would think there was a fire sale on former Purple People.

Larry Heck, Scott Moore, Qi Lu, and Sean Suchter have all ended up at Microsoft after leaving behind their Yahoo! gigs.

Now, joining them, is Kevin Timmons; Yongdong Wang, former Yahoo VP of international search; and Knut Risvik, who incidentally spent time at Google after his stint at Yahoo!

Microsoft isn’t the only place former Yahoo!’s are making their mark. Jeff Weiner joined LinkedIn last year as President, having left Yahoo! last summer and then hanging out at a couple of venture capital firms. Now, he’s changing his title to CEO.

What do you think about the departed? Does Microsoft have any incentive to negotiate a deal with Yahoo? Leave a comment and let us know!

 

Tue 5 May 2009

Microsoft Announces 3,000 New Layoffs

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Microsoft: Business Issues, Microsoft: Employees

Today, Microsoft announced that it had delivered layoff notices to 3,000 employees across several divisions (1,200 in Washington state). This comes just months after an initial round of 1,400 who were let go when Microsft announced second quarter earnings. At that time, Microsoft said it planned to eliminate 5,000 jobs this year, and Microsoft’s CEO [...]

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Mon 27 Apr 2009

Who’s Coming & Going In The Search Industry?

Posted by Admin under Google: Employees, Latest Info, Microsoft: Employees, Search Biz, Yahoo: Employees

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 a short post here.

Former Googler Douglas Bowman, who resigned from Google due to Google being too data centric has taken a job at Twitter, according [...]

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Fri 10 Apr 2009

Microsoft Cuts Live Labs Staff By Half, Will Focus On Search

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Microsoft: Business Issues, Microsoft: Employees

PaidContent.org reports that Microsoft’s Live Labs group has been cut in half, and the remaining crew will focus only on search. The departing team members will move on to other Microsoft product groups, such as Live Search, Windows Mobile, and Microsoft Advertising.
In a post on the Live Labs Blog, Microsoft downplays the changes:
“…moving great people [...]

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Thu 26 Mar 2009

Long Time Yahoo Search Scientist Jan Pedersen Joins Microsoft

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Microsoft: Employees, Yahoo: Employees

The Yahoo-to-Microsoft defections continue with news today from paidContent.org that Jan Pedersen is the new chief scientist for Live Search.
This one isn’t exactly a defection, because Pedersen comes to Microsoft from Amazon’s A9.com. But he was Chief Scientist and VP, Search and Advertising Technology Group, at Yahoo prior to that. And before his Yahoo stint, [...]

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Fri 27 Feb 2009

The Big List Of Search Engines & Their Employees On Twitters

Posted by Admin under Ask: Employees, Ask: Promotions, Features: General, Google: Employees, Google: Marketing, Latest Info, Microsoft: Employees, Microsoft: Marketing, Top News

Yesterday, Google joined Twitter with a company account. We twittered a few search engine-related addresses as part of our post about that, but we wanted to do one that was a little more organized. So welcome to our big search engine Twitter list!
The list isn’t complete, nor will it ever be. But that’s how it [...]

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Thu 12 Feb 2009

Microsoft Continues Peeling Off Yahoo Search Talent

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Microsoft: Employees, Microsoft: Live Search Mobile, Microsoft: Tellme, Top News

Microsoft (so far) has been unable to buy Yahoo or Yahoo search assets, so it instead continues to take search talent away from the company. Last year Microsoft successfully lured engineering lead Qi Lu from Yahoo to become head of the company’s Online Services Group. Redmond also recently nabbed Sean Suchter from Yahoo.
Now Bloomberg and [...]

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Thu 22 Jan 2009

Microsoft Announces Q2 Results, 5,000 Layoffs

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Microsoft: Business Issues, Microsoft: Employees, Microsoft: General, Top News

Microsoft announced its fiscal second quarter results today, as well as 5,000 layoffs over the course of the next 18 months with 1,400 immediately. The rumors were true, though the numbers are less than anticipated. From the press release:
As part of this plan, Microsoft will eliminate up to 5,000 jobs in R&D, marketing, sales, finance, [...]

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Wed 21 Jan 2009

Layoffs At Microsoft Widely Expected To Be Announced This Week

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Microsoft & Yahoo Merger, Microsoft: Business Issues, Microsoft: Employees, Microsoft: General

A year ago this would have seemed impossible: layoffs at Microsoft. Until relatively recently Redmond was saying that it would be able to weather the recession without significant disruption. However cost cutting is now the order of the day and no one appears immune.
The layoff rumors first appeared in December and have steadily resurfaced. One [...]

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Thu 15 Jan 2009

Microsoft Job Cuts May Come Next Week

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Microsoft: Business Issues, Microsoft: Employees

In Rare Move, Microsoft Is Exploring Job Cuts from the Wall Street Journal reports the rumored Microsoft job cuts may come as early as next week. It is uncertain if the job cuts will actually happen, the Wall Street Journal said Microsoft is looking for alternatives to cutting jobs. Those numbers are likely [...]

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Thu 1 Jan 2009

Report: Microsoft To Lay Off 15,000 Workers

Posted by Admin under Latest Info, Microsoft: Business Issues, Microsoft: Employees, Top News

There are reports that Microsoft is getting ready to lay off 17% of their workforce on this new year. The layoffs are expected to happen on or around January 15th. So it looks like the rumors are right and this recession is going to hit one of the most successful technology companies of [...]

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