Last week, Yahoo CFO Susan Decker sent out a memo detailing the structure of the company's new Advertiser & Publisher Group. Buried in the "Marketing Products Division" section, under "Engineering," is this tiny bit:

Qi Lu, EVP, Engineering will lead all engineering efforts for APG and will partner with Mark Morrissey in Product Management to ensure development and delivery of leading edge products. Qi continues to report to Zod [Nazem] with a dotted line into APG.

A dotted line! That's how it starts. Though the language notes that Qi Lu will still technically report (solid line) to Zod, the nefarious dotted line over to the AGP gives Decker the thin end of the wedge into gestating her own engineering group. Innocent synergy or first signs of Zod's legendary influence finally eroding?

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