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pimg src="http://paidcontent.org/images/uploads/McAndrewsB_web.jpg" alt="image" align="right" width="140" height="148" /Buried in the release that a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-microsoft-digital-head-exists-or-will-by-next-week-qi-lu-likely-to-be-n/" title="Yahoo's Qi Lu is joining Microsoft "Yahoo's Qi Lu is joining Microsoft /a as president of its Online Services Group was the news that Brian McAndrews is resigning his post as SVP, Microsoft's Advertiser Publisher Solutions Group. McAndrews, the former CEO of aQuantive, relinquished his title when Microsoft (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=MSFT" class="ticker" title="MSFT"NSDQ: MSFT/a) bought his company for $6 billion in August 2007. /p p -- bA losing battle/b: McAndrews was often mentioned for the role that Qi Lu is taking on, which became open when Kevin Johnson a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-industry-moves-microsofts-kevin-johnson-out-unit-reorg-coming/" title="exited the post"exited the post/a at Microsoft and joined Juniper in July. He had been given high marks for the making aQuantive fit fairly nicely into Microsoft's different culture and structure. Clearly, the choice of Qi Lu over McAndrews means he lost the battle to replace Johnson. Despite his good work, in many ways, McAndrews was considered a longshot. The Microsoft purchase made him very rich, and therefore unlikely to want to work for someone else—especially someone like the hard-to-please Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. McAndrews isn't going anywhere at the moment and will take the next few months to "transition out" of his job. So while he ponders his next move, he would be an interesting—and ironic—candidate for Yahoo's open CEO role. a href="http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/press/2008/dec08/12-04CorpDec4PR.mspx" title="Release"Release/a /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-microsoft-digital-head-exists-or-will-by-next-week-qi-lu-likely-to-be-n" title="Updated: Microsoft Has Decided On A New Head Of Digital; Names Qi Lu"Updated: Microsoft Has Decided On A New Head Of Digital; Names Qi Lu/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-msft-exec-yusuf-mehdi-upped-to-lead-online-services-but-not-as-presiden"Industry Moves: MSFT's Mehdi Upped To Lead Much Of Online Services—But Not As President: Report/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-microsofts-help-wanted-head-of-advertising-needed-possibly-a-palin"Microsoft's Help Wanted: Head Of Advertising Needed, Possibly A 'Palin'/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-microsoft-shakes-up-online-team-mcandrews-upped-will-he-be-heading-yaho"Microsoft Shakes up Online Team; McAndrews Upped; Will He Be Heading Yahoo?/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-more-changes-coming-at-microsoft-steve-berkowitz-brian-mcandrews-kevin-"More Changes Coming At Microsoft: Steve Berkowitz, Brian McAndrews, Kevin Johnson/a/li /ul p!-- iMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010cb0000000000000000/SITE=PC_US/AAMSZ=PREMB_NEWS/relocate=http://marklogicdps.eventbrite.com/"Register now!/a/i --/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=BXQCTX"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=BXQCTX" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=MJZnO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=MJZnO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=2pcWO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=2pcWO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=nXO8o"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=nXO8o" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=UeBpO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=UeBpO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=2I7dO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=2I7dO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/475145288" height="1" width="1"/

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp tapped on Thursday a former senior Yahoo Inc executive, Qi Lu, to head its online services group.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/technologyNews?a=nqTPvZ8o"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/technologyNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/technologyNews?a=fy08aWek"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/technologyNews?i=fy08aWek" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/technologyNews?a=92WI8xJm"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/technologyNews?i=92WI8xJm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/technologyNews/~4/1Whu8KOis1g" height="1" width="1"/

Microsoft compte debourser 20 milliards de $ pour l 'achat de la branche recherche de Yahoo!

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pCondé Nast's plans to build out new websites for mags such as iDetails/i have been suspended for an indefinite period, according to a href="http://www.mediabistro.com/agencyspy/" title="AgencySpy"AgencySpy/a, which cited an unidentified source. A high level source at the company tells me that aside from iDetails/i, Conde Nast had been planning on creating several independent sites for a number of its mags next year, including iGQ/i and iConde Nast Traveler/i. The two mags have respective web presences on CondéNet portals a href="http://men.style.com/" title="Men.Style.com"Men.Style.com/a, which also houses iDetails/i, and a href="http://www.concierge.com/" title="Concierge.com"Concierge.com/a. The company has been cutting back on a number of projects deemed "ancillary" since it ordered its magazines to a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-conde-nast-scales-back-portfolio-mens-vogue-layoffs-are-coming" title="slice their budgets 5 percent"slice their budgets 5 percent/a at the end of October. /p p Maurie Perl, a Condé Nast rep, told me that there were no deadlines for the new sites. "It was always a very fluid situation," she said. "Details and the other magazines still have a strong web presence. But there have been no final decisions on whether to go forward or hold back. All parts of the company have to take a look at their resources, given the economic climate we find ourselves in." /p p -- bAnother blow to Razorfish?/b: AgencySpy also mentioned that Microsoft (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=MSFT" class="ticker" title="MSFT"NSDQ: MSFT/a) interactive marketing shop a href="http://www.razorfish.com/#/home/" title="Razorfish"Razorfish/a was working on the new iDetails/i site. The cancellation of a high profile job would be another blow to the agency, which just cut another 36 jobs at its west coast offices on top of the 40 let go in New York two months ago, a href="http://www.techflash.com/venture/Layoffs_hit_Razorfish35539414.html" title="John Cook reported"John Cook reported/a. When I asked Perl if Razorfish was working with the company, she said she couldn't comment. /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-conde-nasts-flip-goes-flop-closing-its-teen-social-network" title="Conde Nast's Flip Goes Flop: Teen Social Network To Be Shuttered"Conde Nast's Flip Goes Flop: Teen Social Network To Be Shuttered/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-condenet-to-cut-jobs-across-the-board" title="CondéNet Cuts Jobs 'Across The Board'; Digital Dealmaker Also Laid Off"CondéNet Cuts Jobs 'Across The Board'; Digital Dealmaker Also Laid Off/a/li lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-conde-nast-scales-back-portfolio-mens-vogue-layoffs-are-coming" title="Conde Nast Scales Back Portfolio, Men's Vogue; Layoffs Are Coming"Conde Nast Scales Back Portfolio, Men's Vogue; Layoffs Are Coming/a/li /ul piOur streamlined mobile application for the BlackBerry and other smart devices brings you the latest headlines quickly on the go. a href="http://m.paid.mwap.at/"Click here to download/a./i /p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=A4qLG4"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=A4qLG4" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=rkTHO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=rkTHO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=Rrq1O"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=Rrq1O" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=z1Q0o"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=z1Q0o" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=WLz0O"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=WLz0O" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=eCGJO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=eCGJO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/475125219" height="1" width="1"/

pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=493851f7796c7a3400e7ad29maxX=300maxY=422" border="0" alt="qilu.jpg" title="qilu.jpg" width="300" height="422" /We'll just admit it: We know nothing about the man. So, Yahoos, we'd be grateful for your input./p pHere's what we do know: Fixing Microsoft's Internet business is going to require one hell of a talent. Not because there aren't worthwhile assets there, and not because Microsoft lacks resources or conviction. Just because Microsoft has had 13 years to get its Internet act together, and it has failed to do it, and we just don't see what is likely to change now. We also know that this is not even remotely about "technology./p pSpecifically, Dr. Lu is going to have to deal with the following:/p ul listrongMission./strong Microsoft has about a dozen different Internet businesses: search, display, ad network, portal, email, online apps, messaging, etc. It needs to have emone/em. This is going to require a major structural re-org--all accomplished without offending the REAL power bases at Microsoft, the Windows and Office guys (see below.) It's also going to require a brutal evaluation of where Microsoft can compete and where it can't and why./li listrongBranding. /strong "Microsoft's Internet business" just isn't going to cut it. Neither is the grab-bag of brands Microsoft has collected over the years, the existence of each of which appears to be an attempt to come up with something cool without offending one or another of the many other constituencies and brands within the Microsoft empire. Microsoft's Internet business needs ONE BRAND. Now. /li listrongPolitics. /strong At Microsoft, the Internet business will always play third banana to Windows and Office (and Steve Ballmer would be an idiot to run the company any other way). We assume that means that every time Dr. Lu does something that might annoy or threaten the Windows or Office guys, he's going to have to get permission first. That is REALLY annoying. And it's going to take a special kind of individual who can build a real business out of all these parts without being driven mad in the process./li listrongProfits/strong. After 13 years of online striving, Microsoft's Internet business is still burning billions of dollars a year. Even clobbered AOL is making money. If Microsoft's Internet business is ever to be a real business, Microsoft has to fix this. That's going to be no easy task./li /ul pSo is the good Doctor a Superman? We hope so. If not, he's just going to be the latest in a long line of Microsoft Internet honchos who have moved pieces around the board without ever really accomplishing anything./p pYahoo colleagues, we need to hear from you. Does he have what it takes? Please enlighten us!/p pstrongSee Also: /stronga href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/12/meet-microsofts-new-digital-head-qi-lu-msft"Meet Microsoft's New Digital Head: Qi Lu/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/8Prl7aK8863ZaK_gyxjeIfLwIBw/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/8Prl7aK8863ZaK_gyxjeIfLwIBw/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=3whZ6eJY"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=3whZ6eJY" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=IDXdau2S"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=ZvWWFx6X"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=gR7yFBWR"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=gR7yFBWR" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=0fXiW464"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=jTcDiF1s"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=PImFWcsU"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=eTK4fM63"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/pLlYijvQmyw" height="1" width="1"/

A 12-nation crackdown on software counterfeiters is keeping Microsoft's lawyers busy this week, with 63 legal actions under way against shady online auctioneers.

a href="http://adage.com/digital/article.php?article_id=133037"/aNEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Microsoft has tapped Qi Lu, an engineering star from Yahoo, as its new head of online services. pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/G3qUT49bcojmHIilHeDCvceQgsg/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/G3qUT49bcojmHIilHeDCvceQgsg/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/adage/complete/~4/PufI9Cnlv4Y" height="1" width="1"/

pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/ps3/" rel="tag"Sony PlayStation 3/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/xbox360/" rel="tag"Microsoft Xbox 360/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/rhythm/" rel="tag"Rhythm/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://blog.cmt.com/2008-12-03/rock-band-purists-not-so-sure-about-country/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/12/rock-band-dixie-chicks.jpg" //a/div Well, we reckon it's emalmost/em official now. According to Country Music Television's (CMT) blog, the a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/21/country-coming-to-rock-band-sooner-or-later/"previously mentioned/a emRock Back /emcountry music pack is coming on December 16th to Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The report claims five songs will be part of the pack, and names Bentley, Brad Paisley, Brooks amp; Dunn, Miranda Lambert and the Dixie Chicks as the artists. If emRock Band /emsticks to tradition, we'll get an official press release Dec. 11th or 12th.br /br /We're going to take the moment to re-demand "a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiO3SIOOc_4"Jolene/a" (let's compromise and ask for the White Stripes version), "a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM0-CAYp2Qs"Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass/a" and "a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn481KcjvMo"The Gambler/a" for some point in the future.p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/04/report-yee-haw-country-rock-band-dlc-on-december-16/"Report: Yee-haw! Country Rock Band DLC on December 16/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:30:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://blog.cmt.com/2008-12-03/rock-band-purists-not-so-sure-about-country/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/04/report-yee-haw-country-rock-band-dlc-on-december-16/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1391756/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/04/report-yee-haw-country-rock-band-dlc-on-december-16/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/q5U1Hjp6hRnHmu_04vqFE0pELeA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/q5U1Hjp6hRnHmu_04vqFE0pELeA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=o0CjLtoq"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=o0CjLtoq" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=LHoJ8ZLx"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=LHoJ8ZLx" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/yx0kE3n-zso" height="1" width="1"/

Selon Microsoft, la Xbox 360 surclasserait la PlayStation 3 en Europe avec des ventes qui ont augmenté de 124% durant le mois de novembre, contre 3% pour la console de Sony.

Microsoft announced the hire of former ten-year Yahoo exec Dr. Qi Lu today as President of their Online Services Group. He’ll report directly to CEO Steve Ballmer.

Here’s the email Ballmer sent to all Microsoft staff forty minutes ago:

From: Steve Ballmer
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 1:39 PM
To: Microsoft - All Employees (QBDG)
Subject: New Leader of Online Services Group

Search, advertising and online services are critical to Microsoft’s long-term strategy. To succeed, we need the right talent. Today, I’m pleased to announce that Qi Lu will join Microsoft as president of our Online Services Group. Qi will oversee all efforts in search, our online advertising platform, and all of our online information and communications services. Qi will join Microsoft on Jan. 5 and report to me.

Qi is one of the most respected technical minds in the industry. He comes to Microsoft after 10 years at Yahoo, where he most recently served as executive vice president of engineering for all of Yahoo’s search and advertising development efforts. Before joining Yahoo, Qi was a researcher at IBM’s Almaden Research Center. He has a doctorate in computer science from Carnegie Mellon, and he holds 20 U.S. patents.

Qi’s combination of deep technical expertise, proven leadership capability and broad business knowledge is rare in our industry. There is no one better qualified to guide our work to reinvent search and online advertising.

While I’m excited that Qi is joining Microsoft, I’m sorry to share the news that Brian McAndrews has decided to transition out of the company. Brian came to us with the acquisition of aQuantive in 2007. Since then, he has helped build a world-class business in online advertising that provides a solid foundation for future growth. I have great respect for the important contributions Brian has made to Microsoft, and I wish him the very best in the future.

On Monday at 4 p.m. Pacific Time, Qi will join me at Café RedWest for an Employee Town Hall. I encourage you to attend or to watch the webcast. If you have questions for Qi or me, please send them in advance to and we’ll try to answer as many as possible.

Steve

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Microsoft says it's bringing in a former Yahoo search executive to lead its online push. Microsoft Corp. says Qi (pronounced 'CHEE') Lu will be president of its Online Services Group. He'll be responsible for search and online advertising, where Microsoft lags far behind the leader, Google Inc.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?a=KkRQO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?i=KkRQO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?a=8JVGo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?i=8JVGo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?a=TgwUo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/ibtimes/tech?i=TgwUo" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/ibtimes/tech/~4/475104379" height="1" width="1"/

pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=493851f7796c7a3400e7ad29maxX=224maxY=315" border="0" alt="qilu.jpg" title="qilu.jpg" width="224" height="315" /It's official: Former Yahoo (YHOO) tech star Qi Lu has been named to head up Microsoft's (MSFT) Online Services Group. The job puts Lu in charge of web search and online advertising for Microsoft and Windows Live./p pRumors Lu was a contender for the job have been circulating since a report on a href="http://kara.allthingsd.com/20081204/former-yahoo-tech-star-qi-lu-likely-to-be-named-microsofts-digital-head-by-next-week/"AllThingsD/a this morning. /p pA big day of change for Microsoft. The company also said Brian McAndrews, SVP of Microsoft's Advertiser Publisher Solutions Group, would be leaving the company. McAndrews was said to be vying for the job that went to Lu./p pThe full release:/p p style="padding-left: 30px;"Microsoft Corp. today announced that Dr. Qi Lu will join the company as president of the Online Services Group. Dr. Lu will lead Microsoft's efforts in search and online advertising and all the company's online information and communications services. Dr. Lu will report to Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer.br /br /Lu most recently served as executive vice president of Engineering for the Search and Advertising Technology Group at Yahoo!, where he was responsible for development efforts around Yahoo!'s Web search and monetization platforms. Dr. Lu left Yahoo! in August 2008 after 10 years of service.br /br /'I am tremendously excited to welcome Qi to Microsoft,' Ballmer said. '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.'br /br /'I am genuinely excited about the opportunities ahead for Microsoft to make an enormous impact on the online industry,' Dr. Lu said. 'Microsoft has built a great foundation for its search and advertising technologies and put an amazing team of researchers and engineers in place to drive the next wave of innovation in online services. I'm looking forward to working with them to help transform the way people and businesses use the Internet to find and share information.'br /Before his most recent role at Yahoo!, Lu was vice president of engineering responsible for the technology development of Yahoo!'s Search and Marketplace business unit, which includes the company's search, e-commerce, and local listings of businesses and products.br /Before joining Yahoo! in 1998, Dr. Lu was a Research Staff Member at IBM Almaden Research Center. Before IBM, Dr. Lu worked at Carnegie Mellon University as a Research Associate, and at Fudan University in China as a faculty member. Dr. Lu holds 20 U.S. patents, and received his bachelor of science and master of science in computer science from Fudan University and his Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.br /br /Lu's first day at Microsoft will be Jan. 5, 2009. In his role running the Online Services Group, he will oversee several groups including the Advertiser Publisher Solutions business, managed by Scott Howe who was promoted to corporate vice president; the Online Audience business, managed by Senior Vice President Yusuf Mehdi; OSG Research Development, managed by Senior Vice President Satya Nadella; and OSG Finance, managed by Rik van der Kooi who was promoted to corporate vice president.br /br /With the successful integration of aQuantive now complete, Brian McAndrews, former CEO of aQuantive and senior vice president of Microsoft's Advertiser Publisher Solutions Group, has decided to transition out of Microsoft, and will do so over the next several months, serving in a consultative capacity to Steve Ballmer and Qi Lu during that time.br /br /'Brian McAndrews built a world-class business for advertisers and publishers and led the successful integration of aQuantive into Microsoft, setting the foundation for our next phase of growth,' Ballmer said. 'While I am sorry to see Brian leave the company, I respect and understand his decision and wish him nothing but the best in the future.'br /br /'I also want to congratulate Scott and Rik on their well-deserved promotions and look forward to their leadership in the Online Services Group alongside Qi, Yusuf and Satya,' Ballmer said.br /br /As part of today's announcement, several teams will move to further align resources. The field sales organizations in the Online Services Group will move to Microsoft's centralized Sales, Marketing and Services Group led by chief operating officer Kevin Turner. 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