Since becoming CEO of Microsoft, Satya Nadella has championed a growth mindset, pushing the company to continually evolve and learn from others and its own past. Now, the person most… Read More
Microsoft will combine its Global Sales and Marketing Organization and Worldwide Commercial Business under Judson Althoff, further positioning the eight-year Microsoft executive as a key leader under CEO Satya Nadella.… Read More
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s family is donating $15 million to Seattle Children’s Hospital to support its work in neurosciences medicine and mental health care. Satya Nadella and his wife Anu… Read More
With several thousand employees across 11 locations in India, and many more employees in other countries with families in India, Microsoft is acutely aware of the devastation sweeping the country… Read More
The news this morning that the Biden administration has halted the sale of TikTok’s U.S. operations further illustrates the extraordinary nature of the Trump administration’s move to force the divestiture… Read More
Nearly a year into a pandemic that ushered in a new era of virtual work, Microsoft announced a new tech platform called Viva that aims to improve wellbeing by analyzing… Read More
Microsoft’s profits rose 33% in the December quarter as CEO Satya Nadella touted a “second wave of digital transformation.” But what does the future really hold for the tech giant?… Read More
Microsoft’s revenue climbed 17% to more than $43 billion for the December quarter, and profits rose 33% to $15.5 billion, eclipsing Wall Street’s expectations amid growing demand for the company’s… Read More
Startup founders and tech giant CEOs are putting money behind cricket teams and leagues, betting that the sport will continue growing in popularity — even in the U.S., where it… Read More
Microsoft is rolling out new cloud technologies for wrangling, protecting and analyzing large amounts of corporate data, escalating its competition with Google, Snowflake and Amazon in the $25 billion global… Read More
Slack could gain new inroads to enterprise customers, and access to additional sales and marketing horsepower, if reports of its impending acquisition by Salesforce come to fruition. The combination promises… Read More
[Editor’s Note: Akhtar Badshah, who led Microsoft’s philanthropic efforts from 2004 to 2014, writes about the roots and impact of the company’s giving campaign in his new book, “Purpose Mindset:… Read More
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella saw his total compensation rise 3% to $44.32 million during the company’s fiscal year 2020 that ended in June. The number, revealed in an annual filing… Read More
Here’s what we’re talking about on the GeekWire Podcast this week: A long-awaited report from a U.S. House antitrust subcommittee landed this week, and it slammed Amazon, Facebook, Google and… Read More
Schedule super quick meetings just to check in with colleagues. Read more. And try to fit “moments of transition” into your daily schedule. Those are some tips from Microsoft CEO… Read More
Satya Nadella is a big fan of cricket. But on Sunday he wound up for a different sport as the Microsoft CEO threw out the virtual first pitch for the… Read More
[Updated at 3 p.m. Pacific on Friday, Sept. 4.] Amazon issued a searing response Friday to the Department of Defense’s reaffirmation of Microsoft as the winner of the coveted $10… Read More
Microsoft may be toying with the idea of buying Tik-Tok, but more than ever, its bread-and-butter is basic cloud services and server software for businesses. Speaking of M&A, Microsoft was… Read More
Microsoft broke its silence on its interest in acquiring hit social video app TikTok in the United States in a statement Sunday afternoon, confirming the talks and saying it’s prepared… Read More
[Update, Saturday, 2:50 p.m. Pacific: The Wall Street Journal reported that negotiations between ByteDance and Microsoft are on hold following the president’s comments Friday evening opposing the deal.] Welcome to… Read More
Microsoft posted revenue of $38 billion, up 13%, beating Wall Street’s expectations for its fiscal fourth quarter ended June 30. The COVID-19 pandemic and related stay-at-home orders boosted the company’s… Read More
Over the next three years, Microsoft says it will double its number of Black-owned suppliers and spend an incremental $500 million with those companies; double its investment activity with Black-owned… Read More
Decisions by Microsoft and Amazon to refrain from sales of facial recognition software to law enforcement agencies could have negative consequences long-term if U.S. lawmakers fail to enact regulations governing… Read More
Twenty-five years ago, more than a decade before the debut of the iPhone, a different piece of technology had people lining up outside stores around the world: Microsoft’s Windows 95.… Read More
Microsoft is bringing traditional Windows apps back into the fold, after years trying to get developers to shift focus to a new class of Universal Windows Platform apps that can… Read More
Microsoft says it has created one of the world’s top supercomputers for the exclusive use of OpenAI, the San Francisco-based artificial intelligence company pursuing breakthroughs in artificial general intelligence, or… Read More
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has gone “All In” to give a lucky winner a behind-the-scenes look at Microsoft’s headquarters campus in Redmond, Wash., and much more while raising money to… Read More
Microsoft reported $35 billion in revenue, an increase of 15% from a year ago, as increased demand for its productivity, gaming and cloud technologies overcame the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on… Read More
UPDATE: Microsoft posts $35B in revenue, up 15%, sees ‘minimal net impact’ from COVID-19 in quarter Will problems in the Windows PC and server supply chain drag Microsoft down? Or… Read More
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and President Donald Trump aren’t exactly the best of friends, but that didn’t stop the White House from including the world’s richest individual on a list… Read More