Another Yahoo Executive Announces Exit
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Yahoo! Inc., the Internet company that agreed last week to allow Google Inc. to sell advertisements on some of its search results, said its senior vice president of search technology is leaving.
Qi Lu’s last day will be August 31, Diana Wong, a spokeswoman for Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo, said in an e-mail yesterday. His move was planned for some time, she said. Mr. Lu is one of Yahoo’s 15 top managers, according to its Web site.
Yahoo’s executives have fled since it ended talks with Microsoft Corp. about an acquisition, striking the agreement with Google instead. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is seeking to oust Yahoo chief executive officer, Jerry Yang, who he blames for scuttling a Microsoft deal. The exodus of employees may make it harder for Yahoo to prosper as an independent company.
“Losing management is one thing. Losing your engineering human capital is much more difficult to replace,” an analyst at Canaccord Adams Inc. Colin Gillis, said. He recommends selling Yahoo shares. “It’s going to cause a cave-in from the top down.'”
Another of Yahoo’s top 15 executives, Jeff Weiner, will step down as head of the network division at the end of June. Stewart Butterfield and Caterina Fake — co-founders of the Flickr photo- sharing site, which Yahoo bought in 2005 — also are leaving, the company said this week. Engineer Jeremy Zawodny announced his departure last week.
Yahoo’s chief data officer, Usama Fayyad, also is leaving, the New York Times reported last week.