Comments on: Updated: Industry Moves: Microsoft Picks Qi Lu To Head Digital http://paidcontent.org/2008/12/05/419-microsoft-digital-head-exists-or-will-by-next-week-qi-lu-likely-to-be-n/ The economics of digital content Thu, 23 May 2013 17:49:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: anuj http://paidcontent.org/2008/12/05/419-microsoft-digital-head-exists-or-will-by-next-week-qi-lu-likely-to-be-n/#comment-65196 Sun, 07 Dec 2008 23:50:03 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2008/12/05/419-microsoft-digital-head-exists-or-will-by-next-week-qi-lu-likely-to-be-n/#comment-65196 Sid Parakh, a McAdams Wright Ragen analyst, said the collection of former Yahoo search talent at Microsoft could suggest the company has shifted back to a strategy of build rather than buy.

"Google is the technology leader in the industry, and to catch up with them there is clearly a lot of technology development that Microsoft is undertaking at this point," he said.

Qi Lu is a 47-year-old computer scientist, he left Yahoo in August after spending 10 years with yahoo.

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