Microsoft Appoints Online Unit’s Yusuf Mehdi to Run Xbox Marketing (Plus Internal Memos!)

Game on for Microsoft online exec!
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My Picks for Yahoo’s Next CEO — Maybe Snoop Dogg, Ya Digg?

While the Yahoo board has yet to begin a search, I have already been hard at work on selecting the next CEO.
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Don't Rain on Microsoft's Ad Parade (Except It's Raining in Seattle, Natch!)

BoomTown scrambled the All Things Digital jet (aka, United Airlines, Seat 7A) late last night to get up to Microsoft’s big event for its online advertising clients today. Called “Imagine 2011: Marketing Leadership Summit” and held at its Redmond, Wa. HQ, the two-day event is designed to wow peeps by trotting out a spate of strategery concepts those who buy advertising on Microsoft’s various digital offerings from its Bing search service to MSN to Xbox to Windows Phone 7.

Microsoft Bing's Yusuf Mehdi Talks About Facebook Search Lovefest!

After yesterday’s event at which Facebook and Microsoft declared their never-ending love for each other via a search integration into the Bing service of a lot of data from the powerful social networking behemoth, I sat down to talk about it with Yusuf Mehdi, a longtime exec at the software giant. It is the first sign of a major deployment of a deal announced last year between Microsoft and Facebook. Here’s the video.

Liveblogging the Bing-Facebook Bromance: "Underdog" Search With a Little Help From Your Friends

BoomTown motored on down to the Microsoft campus in Silicon Valley on a fabulously sunny day to liveblog the latest Bing event. The software giant is updating its search service, announcing deep integration–part of a deal announced last year–with Facebook. The theme, according to Microsoft SVP Yusuf Mehdi, quoting the Beatles, search with "a little help from your friends."

More Bling From Bing, as Microsoft Adds Social Zing and More

Microsoft is holding yet another feature update event for its Bing search service later today at its Silicon Valley HQ. Online Services Division President Qi Lu will be there, as well as SVP Yusuf Mehdi, for–according to the invite–”a conversation about new directions and future opportunities of search and a demonstration of some new search innovation by Bing.” Liveblogging to begin at 11:30 am. (Note to Microsoft minions: Donuts, not cream puffs.)

More Change at Microsoft's Bing, as It Goes Deep Into Entertainment

Microsoft is rolling out a new series of updates to its Bing search service, including a deep dive into a media-rich entertainment vertical. The software company has been pushing hard in the search arena, trying to gain market share from the dominant Google and the No. 2 player, Yahoo.

Microsoft's Qi Lu Talks About Bing (and Confirms Facebook and Twitter Real-Time Data Deal) at Web 2.0

Microsoft digital head Qi Lu took to the stage at the Web 2.0 Summit conference this morning, where he confirmed a “strategic” deal with Facebook and Twitter to integrate real-time information into Microsoft’s Bing search service. BoomTown broke the news of those deals earlier today. Top Microsoft exec Yusuf Mehdi did a demo of the new tweet-powered search for Twitter; the Facebook integration is to come later.
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AOL: More Org Chart Shuffles Coming; So Are Ad Dollars. But Mum on Microsoft.

CEO Tim Armstrong says he’s still overhauling the Internet company in advance of its spinoff from Time Warner, but he has hopeful noises to make about ad sales. He has nothing, however, to say about chats with Microsoft.
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Weekend Update 8.08.09–The Lolcats Edition

It’s been a long time between weekend updates, and a long week without Peter Kafka, All Things D’s intrepid MediaMemo reporter. He returns Monday, and just in time, too, since John Paczkowski and Digital Daily will be out all next week. Must be August–do Europeans still take the whole month off? Or is that an urban legend? No matter; it definitely has not been sleepy around here.
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Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer: Bing!

MSN Changes Afoot?