Mark Penn, Microsoft’s New Strategist, Hopes to Boost Bing

The initial focus: igniting more consumer use of Bing, the Microsoft Web search engine.

In an interview, Mr. Penn said he is assembling a “SWAT team” to work on thorny strategy questions around Microsoft consumer projects. His initial priority, Mr. Penn said in the interview, would be Bing, which lags far behind Google in market share and revenue despite billions of dollars of investment from Microsoft. Mr. Penn, whose appointment was announced Thursday, will have a new post as corporate vice president of strategic and special projects.

(Curated by Dennis Moore. Read the complete article here)

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