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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.