IQ News: Stein Leaves Microsoft For IXL Spending Spree In NY

Armed with a venture capital war chest, iXL, Atlanta, has moved into an aggressive expansion mode in New York and has hired a new president to run an office in the city.
Lara Stein, president of iXL, New York, left her high-profile position in business development at Microsoft’s m3p creative development office in Manhattan, where she was producing content for the Microsoft Network for a year and a half. There is no longer a m3p office in New York, and Microsoft has unloaded or discontinued most of the original shows it had commissioned for MSN.