Sean Suchter

Microsoft Strikes Bing Deal With Twitter, Facebook: The Official Announcement

John Paczkowski in News on October 21, 2009 at 11:29 am PT

Here’s official confirmation of the search partnership Microsoft has struck with Twitter, first reported by BoomTown earlier this morning. It’s being distributed as Qi Lu, president of Microsoft’s Online Services Division, presents at the annual Web 2.0 Summit.

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 Adds Some Twitter Real-Time Data to Bing (And Stalks BoomTown in the Process)

Kara Swisher in News on July 1, 2009 at 3:06 pm PT

Microsoft just announced in a blog post that it was “integrating more real time data into our search results, starting with some of the more prominent and prolific Twitterers from a variety of spheres.” Microsoft said it is not indexing all of Twitter in its new Bing search service–not yet, that is–nor has it made any kind of exclusive deal with Twitter to add this real-time feed. The software giant is the first major search service to do this on a regular basis, using public APIs from Twitter–and it is an aggressive move, which seems to be part of its major push by Bing.

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.

Microsoft Mugs Yahoo, While Yahoo Dithers: How to Lose to a Bear and Influence Nobody

Kara Swisher in News on December 9, 2008 at 8:05 am PT

BoomTown really does hope that in some secret airport hangar right now Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer and Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang are meeting, in order to hammer out a fair search deal that will benefit them both. I’d even insist that Yahoo’s noisiest board member, activist shareholder Carl Icahn, be there too, to make sure all sides were copacetic and there would be no last-minute switcheroos and backstabbings. Because, long ago in galaxy far, far away, what is now going on between Microsoft and Yahoo would have seemed inane.

Former Yahoo Tech Star Qi Lu Likely to Be Named Microsoft's Digital Head by Next Week

Kara Swisher in News on December 4, 2008 at 5:01 am PT

Former Yahoo tech star Qi Lu is poised to take on the big job of being Microsoft’s top digital executive, according to several sources inside and outside the company. The appointment could be announced as early as next Monday. A variety of details is still being ironed out, including whether the well-regarded techie Lu will be “paired” with another executive at Microsoft with more general business experience.

It's Official: Yahoo Search Exec Suchter to Microsoft

Kara Swisher in News on November 20, 2008 at 12:45 pm PT

Yesterday, BoomTown reported, based on sources, that Yahoo search exec Sean Suchter was headed to Microsoft. Now it’s official. Here’s a Microsoft statement on the hiring of Suchter, an important tech leader at Yahoo, from Satya Nadella, SVP for Search, Portal and Advertising.