Yahoo Is Wooing I.B.M. Technical Talent

The tug-of-war is not just on the business side, but on the technical side too, as demonstarted in the last week of so (the MSFT-Google defections flap). Now Yahoo is recruiting scientists who pioneered an advanced search-engine technology at I.B.M.’s Silicon Valley research laboratory.

It has announced the appointment of Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan to Head of Yahoo Research. Raghavan will lead research efforts to in areas such as search and information navigation, social media, community, personalization, and mobility. More details in the release.

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