Qi Lu will lead Microsoft’s efforts to boost its Internet search and advertising businesses.<\/p>\n
Lu spent a decade with the pioneering California firm, serving as vice president of engineering for Yahoo Search and Advertising Technology Group before leaving in August, according to Microsoft.<\/p>\n
"I am genuinely excited about the opportunities ahead for Microsoft to make an enormous impact on the online industry," Lu said in a release.<\/p>\n
"I am looking forward to working with them to help transform the way people and businesses use the Internet to find and share information."<\/p>\n
Lu will start his new position in January and answer directly to Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer.<\/p>\n
"I am tremendously excited to welcome Qi to Microsoft," Ballmer said.<\/p>\n
"Dr. Lu’s deep technical expertise, leadership capabilities and hard-working mentality are well-known in the technology industry, and Microsoft will benefit from his addition to our executive management team."<\/p>\n
Lu worked at IBM’s Almaden Research Center before joining Yahoo in 1998.<\/p>\n
He is a former faculty member of Fudan University in China, where he earned a master’s degree in computer science before going on to get a doctorate in the field from Carnegie Mellon University.<\/p>\n
Microsoft has apparently been courting Yahoo talent in the wake of its failed bid to buy the firm earlier this year for nearly $47 billion in cash and stock.<\/p>\n
Microsoft wanted to merge online resources with Yahoo to better battle Internet king Google in the lucrative online search and advertising arena.<\/p>\n
Yahoo search executive Sean Suchter was hired by Microsoft to manage its Silicon Valley Search Technology Center and begins work for the Redmond, Washington, company later this month.<\/p>\n
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