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Tech Is Glamour-ous: Mag Hosts Panel on Women in Tech (Video)

Kara Swisher in Media on October 13, 2011 at 9:03 am PT

What’s the state of women in tech? Click in to find out.

Yahoo Confirms Hiring of Former Microsoft Exec Blake Irving as Chief Product Officer

Kara Swisher in News on April 19, 2010 at 6:15 am PT

Yahoo said it has hired former Microsoft exec Blake Irving as its chief product officer. Reporting directly to CEO Carol Bartz, Yahoo said in a statement, Irving will “lead the company’s products organization, which is responsible for the vision, strategy, design and development of Yahoo!’s global consumer and advertiser product portfolio.” The move confirms a post BoomTown wrote last week about Yahoo’s efforts to hire the longtime Microsoft exec, whose last job there was corporate VP of its Windows Live Platform group.

Microsoft Pleased With Response to Yahoo HotJobs Ads

John Paczkowski in News on June 23, 2009 at 4:00 pm PT

Microsoft may have failed in its bid to acquire Yahoo last year, but it hasn’t failed in its bid to acquire some of the company’s talent. Between November 2008 and March 2009, Redmond hired away five Yahoo veterans. Now comes word that it’s picked up three more.

Microsoft Acquiring Yahoo One Employee at a Time

John Paczkowski in News on March 27, 2009 at 7:36 am PT

If Yahoo employee defections to Microsoft continue apace, there may come a day when Redmond will no longer need to buy the struggling company’s search business. It will already have acquired it. This week yet another Yahoo alum joined Microsoft: Jan Pedersen, a former chief scientist and VP in the company’s Search and Advertising Technology Group.