Yahoo lures away top executive from Google

10/16/2012
BLADE NEWS SERVICES

SAN FRANCISCO — Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has lured away one of Google’s top advertising executives to help engineer a turnaround at Yahoo.

Henrique de Castro is leaving Google Inc. to become Yahoo’s chief operating officer in early 2013. Mr. de Castro, 47, is vice president of a major division that works with Google’s advertisers.