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Microsoft hires former top Yahoo search exec to head online services
Microsoft today confirmed that Qi Lu, a former search and advertising executive at Yahoo, will join Microsoft as president of the online services group.
Lu left Yahoo in August 2008 -- one of several Yahoo executives who left over the summer. He'll join Microsoft on Jan. 5, 2009, and will oversee a number of online services business units, including Advertiser & Publisher Solutions under Scott Howe, Online Audience headed by Yusuf Mehdi, Research & Development under Satya Nadella, and Finance managed by Rik van der Kooi.
In another shift, Brian McAndrews, the former CEO of digital marketing firm aQuantive, will leave Microsoft, the company announced.
McAndrews joined Microsoft when the software giant acquired aQuantive for $6 billion last year, and rose to the level of senior vice president for Advertiser & Publisher Solutions. [See related story: Microsoft's online shakeup makes former aQuantive CEO a free agent.]
Microsoft also shifted some online sales units as part of the announcement.
The news that Lu was about to join Microsoft was reported by Kara Swisher on AllThingsD this morning.
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