Piggybacking on a Mashable post, Doug Caverly notes that Yahoo's former vice president of business operations, Matthew Heist, has left the Web giant for travel meta-search engine SideStep. Heist will
act as the company's senior vice president of global search.
While personnel changes in any competitive industry are par for the course (Google recently lost engineer Benjamin Ling
to Facebook), Yahoo has had an exceptionally tough time in recent months -- following a major reorg in August, and the ousting of CEO Terry Semel in June.
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