Two a long time ago, when Microsoft;s search and marketing unit was even extra of a revolving door than now, two long-time managers,
Windows 7 Product Key, Christopher Pane and Dane Glasgow, parted approaches with Microsoft.(Payne was Microsoft;s search chief — when the company;s lookup engine was known as “Windows Live Search” (not just Live Search); Glasgow was General Manager of Live Search.)In January,
Office 2010 Key, Payne resurfaced — as an eBay employee.After leaving Microsoft Payne founded a Seattle startup known as Positronic Inc. Positronic is all about machine-learning and data-mining — everything from natural-language processing and scalable databases,
Office Professional Plus 2010, to cognitive algorithms and distributed grid computing/parallel computing.Payne is listed,
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, as of January 2009, on LinkedIn as a vice president with eBay. On Payne;s profile, it says: “Positronic was acquired by eBay in December 2008.”Glasgow also was involved with Positronic and will be joining eBay, as well, according to my tipster. (I;ve been unable to verify this part with the tip so far.)I;ve contacted eBay for more information on its plans for Positronic and its executives. I;ll update this post if and when I hear back.Update: Courtesy of the January 8 post to the eBay blog:“I can confirm reports that Christopher Payne, co-founder of Positronic, Inc.,
Office 2010 Professional Plus, has joined eBay as VP of Search. Additionally, Positronic co-founder Dane Glasgow has joined eBay as VP of Engineering. I can also confirm that eBay has acquired Positronic to help with efforts at leveraging machine learning to provide a more predictive and compelling customer experience.”