Jan Pedersen

It's Opposite Day: Yahoo Grabs a Microsoft Exec!

Kara Swisher in News on October 8, 2009 at 5:21 am PT

For a long time now, it has been Microsoft constantly raiding the Yahoo talent pool, as one top tech exec after another has left its Sunnyvale, Calif., HQ to join the Redmond, Wash.-based software giant. Well, turnabout is fair play for Yahoo, as it nabs a top Microsoft ad exec.

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 Acquires Yahoo…VP of Ops

John Paczkowski in News on March 30, 2009 at 12:18 pm PT

Add another name to the list of Yahoo employees defecting to Microsoft. Dayne Sampson, Yahoo’s VP of Operations for Search and Advertising, has fled the company for its former suitor, Microsoft confirmed to Digital Daily.

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.