Zuck and other Silicon Valley power players gathered in Paris to meet with...
This week, French President Emmanuel Macron convened the Tech for Good Summit, gathering up top Silicon Valley executives — including Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, fresh off of his appearance in front...
View ArticleMicrosoft's acquisition of GitHub could be announced as soon as Monday (MSFT)
Microsoft and GitHub have agreed to an acquisition, according to a Bloomberg report.The deal, which follows recent deal talks reported by Business Insider, could be announced as soon as Monday.It's...
View ArticleMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella asks Silicon Valley to give it a chance before it...
Microsoft is buying GitHub for $7.5 billion. The news is causing some angst for programmers — GitHub is the center of the world of open source software development, and Microsoft has a history of...
View ArticleHere are 15 jobs at Microsoft that will pay you more than $170,000 a year
Microsoft is on the upswing, thanks to CEO Satya Nadella.Customers love Microsoft, Wall Street loves Microsoft, and, importantly, developers and engineers increasingly love Microsoft.Which means that...
View ArticleRead the memo Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sent to employees about the...
Microsoft has faced sharp criticism for its work with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, an agency involved in carrying out President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" immigration policy, under which...
View ArticleRead the letter 100 Microsoft staff reportedly sent to Satya Nadella...
Microsoft staff wrote to CEO Satya Nadella calling on the firm to cancel its $19.4 million contract with the US's Immigration, Customs and Enforcement agency.They are dismayed at President Donald...
View ArticleAmazon poached 30 executives from Microsoft in the past 3 years — 6 times as...
Amazon poached more Microsoft executives from 2015 to 2017 than any other tech company, CNBC reports, citing the data-collecting startup Paysa.Microsoft is known for churning out quality employees, but...
View ArticleMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella's master plan is clearly working, and the company...
For the first time, Microsoft has topped $100 billion in revenue.Wall Street analysts have been swooning with delight, with at least one predicting the company will soon hit $1 trillion in market...
View ArticleA 20-year-old Tesla intern's team just won $130,000 and a private session...
SmartARM, founded by two 20-year-old college students, just won Microsoft's 2018 Imagine Cup.The prize includes $130,000 in cash and Microsoft Azure cloud credit — plus a one-on-one advice session with...
View ArticleMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella sold $35.9 million worth of his shares in the...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella sold $35.9 million worth of stock, according to regulatory filings. It's his largest stock sale since he took over in 2014. In 2016, Nadella sold $8.3 million worth of...
View ArticleThe man in the red polo: Meet Scott Guthrie, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella's...
Meet Scott Guthrie, the executive VP of Microsoft's cloud and artificial intelligence business. He's a long-time Microsoft exec, and a trusted lieutenant to CEO Satya Nadella — the two worked together...
View Article4 years after the CEO of Microsoft publicly flubbed a question on how women...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in 2014 that women who have "good karma" don't need to ask for a raise — they should get one naturally.That comment angered people in and out of the tech industry.Four...
View ArticleWhen CEO Satya Nadella took over Microsoft, he started defusing its toxic...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella bought all the members of his senior leadership team a copy of the book "Nonviolent Communication" in 2014 when he took over the company.At the time, Microsoft was known for...
View ArticleThe CEO who will run Microsoft's $7.5 billion bet on open source explains the...
Microsoft's $7.5 billion acquisition of GitHub just got EU approval, bringing the deal much closer to a final close. Nat Friedman, who will become CEO of GitHub when the deal closes, says that the...
View ArticleSilicon Valley's ultimate status symbol is the sneaker. Here are the rare,...
For many of the Valley's elite, the right pair of kicks is a trademark accessory carefully selected to convey a mix of power and nonchalance, creativity, and exclusivity.With help from the team at the...
View ArticleGitHub is now officially part of Microsoft following the close of its $7.5...
It's official: Microsoft now owns GitHub.Microsoft acquired the developer platform for $7.5 billion in a deal first reported in June by Business Insider.GitHub announced it now has 31 million...
View ArticleThe 15-year-old book CEO Satya Nadella handed his execs to start defusing...
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella asked members of his executive team to read the book "Nonviolent Communication" after he took over in 2014, in an effort to change the company's culture.At the time,...
View ArticleThe 15-year-old book Microsoft's CEO asked his execs to read says the best...
Interrupting people may seem impolite, but it's the best way to inject life into a boring conversation.That's one of the points in "Nonviolent Communication," a book that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella...
View ArticleOne of Microsoft's fastest-rising stars is leaving the company (MSFT)
Javier Soltero, one of Microsoft's rising stars, is leaving the company after four years, with the intention of "getting back to building new things." He came to Microsoft after his startup, Acompli,...
View ArticleThe CEOs of Microsoft and Google are heading to the White House next week...
Tech executives including Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Google CEO Sundar Pichai are expected to attend a meeting with the Trump administration next week. The sessions will focus on jobs of the...
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