Reports: Insider Satya Nadella Likely To Be Microsoft's CEO
The nearly six-month-long search for Microsoft's next CEO is nearing an end, and news reports indicate it's likely the technology giant will turn to Satya Nadella, executive vice president of its Cloud...
View ArticleLongtime Microsoft Executive Satya Nadella Likely To Become Software Giant’s...
Multiple news reports say Microsoft is likely to choose company veteran SatyaNadella its next CEO, ending a very public search that’s taken almost half a year. A Microsoft spokeswoman declined to...
View Article8 Things Worth Knowing About Microsoft's New CEO, Satya Nadella
While it's never been considered a "cool" company, Microsoft is still a force — worth $300 billion, and Windows operating systems still run on a big chunk of the world's computers. While the profile of...
View ArticleWhat Bill Gates' New Role Could Mean For Microsoft
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates is stepping down as chairman of its board and into a new role, which the company is calling "technology adviser." The change comes as a new CEO — Satya Nadella — takes...
View ArticleWhat New CEO Satya Nadella's Microsoft Might Look Like
When Strategic News Service publisher Mark Anderson made his predictions for 2014, he included a “new Microsoft that no one expected.”With the promotion of Satya Nadella to CEO and Bill Gates as...
View ArticleMicrosoft To Cut Up To 18,000 Jobs; 1,351 In Puget Sound Area
Microsoft says it will cut up to 18,000 jobs in what observers are calling the company's largest layoff ever. The news came in an e-mail from CEO Satya Nadella.
View ArticleAnalyst: Microsoft CEO 'Seizing The Moment' Restructuring For Mobile World
More than 1,300 Microsoft employees in the Puget Sound region got their pink slips Thursday as part of announced cuts to the worldwide workforce that could total 18,000 by the end of the year — the...
View ArticleSteve Ballmer Resigns From Microsoft Board, Saying He'll Be Busy As New...
Former Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer is leaving the board of the software company he led for 14 years.In a letter released on Microsoft's website, Ballmer said he has confidence in...
View ArticleHas Microsoft’s Tax Policy Hurt Washington State’s Ability To Pay For Schools?
Editor's Note: This story has been updated to clarify the timeline of when Microsoft opened its Nevada office and when the state lowered its royalty tax. The updated version also adds that Microsoft...
View ArticleMicrosoft Cuts 3,000 Jobs Worldwide, About 600 In The Puget Sound Region
Microsoft has given layoff notices to 3,000 more workers worldwide, with 638 of them in the Puget Sound region, according to a spokesman for the company.
View ArticleMicrosoft Workers Swim, Play Hopscotch, Dress Up In A Bacon Suit For Charity
Imagine being cut loose from your regular work responsibilities for four months to dream up ingenious ways to get your coworkers to donate to charity.
View ArticleOn Microsoft Campus, Teachers Protest Tax Breaks Ahead Of State Ed. Funding...
On a day when frenzied holiday shoppers will pay a significant sum in state sales taxes, a group of teachers is organizing a protest near the Redmond campus of a corporation that they wish paid more...
View ArticleMicrosoft's Quarterly Profit Hit By Charge For Layoffs Connected To Nokia...
Microsoft’s profit dropped 11 percent in the most recent quarter, partly due to expenses connected to layoffs after the company’s purchase of the Finnish cell phone maker Nokia.
View ArticleAmazon Posts Fourth-Quarter Profit As Cloud-Computing Revenue Climbs
Amazon shares jumped 13 percent in after-hours trading on news that the company returned to profitability in the fourth quarter. Strength in the cloud-computing business was an especially bright...
View ArticleAmazon Shares Surge On Optimism About Cloud-Computing Revenue
Amazon shares jumped more than 5 percent after the company provided results for its cloud-computing business for the first time and showed it to be more profitable than investors expected.Profits have...
View ArticleDevelopers: Microsoft Should Sell Windows Phones to Businesses
Microsoft’s plan to buy Nokia’s cellphone business shows the company is serious about competing in the smartphone world. But developers of smartphone apps say Microsoft should focus on getting...
View ArticleMicrosoft at a Crossroads
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmerwill retire sometime in the next 12 months, and there’s plenty of speculation about who will succeed him.But Strategic News Service publisher and KPLU technology commentator...
View ArticleBallmer Gets Less than 'A' Grade in Compensation
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer was awarded 79 percent of his target bonus for the year through June as the software giant cited falling profits for its Windows division and sluggish sales of the Surface...
View ArticleMicrosoft Board Member Faces Scrutiny
When Microsoft holds its annual meeting Nov. 19, shareholders will finish voting for the company’s board of directors. Usually it’s a straightforward affair, but this time, the candidacy of John W....
View ArticleGates Chokes Up at Ballmer's Shareholder Goodbye
Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates choked up while reading from prepared remarks during Steve Ballmer's final shareholders meeting as chief executive.The co-founder of the software giant said progress was...
View ArticleFord CEO Mulally Not Leaving For Microsoft
Ford CEO Alan Mulally says he will not leave the automaker for Microsoft and will stay at Ford at least through 2014.Mulally is widely credited with saving Ford after being hired away from Boeing in...
View ArticleMicrosoft Earnings And Revenue Climb, Still No CEO Announcement
In the face of a steadily declining market for personal computers, Microsoft succeeded in boosting both revenue and profit in the most recent quarter, coming in ahead of analyst estimates. Sales...
View ArticleAstronauts On The International Space Station Will Try Out Microsoft HoloLens...
Two holographic devices made by Microsoft and NASA are scheduled to lift off in a spacecraft from Cape Canaveral this Sunday on a resupply mission headed for the International Space Station. Astronauts...
View ArticleMicrosoft Will Cut 7,800 Jobs And Narrow Focus On Mobile
It’s been just over a year since Microsoft bought Nokia’s phone business, and now the software company is admitting it hasn’t gone according to plan. Microsoft will cut 7,800 jobs – mostly in that...
View ArticleMicrosoft Shares Slump After Reporting A Big Loss Related To Nokia Expenses
Microsoft shares slumped more than 3 percent after the company reported a net loss of $3.2 billion in the most recent quarter as it wrote down much of the value of its Nokia acquisition.Total revenue...
View ArticleFeeling Overwhelmed With Organizational Tasks? Microsoft Says Cortana Can Help
Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 10, includes a feature they hope people will find particularly useful – a virtual kind of butler ready to help you manage your life.The digital personal...
View ArticleNorthwest Business Leaders Prepare For Meeting With Chinese President
Chinese President Xi Jinping will meet with titans of Northwest commerce this week on their home turf: Think Boeing, Starbucks, Microsoft and Amazon. Visits from Chinese dignitaries are often...
View ArticleBill Gates’s Nuclear Energy Startup TerraPower Signs Deal With Chinese...
Clean energy is a big part of the Chinese president’s agenda while he’s in Seattle. That includes a focus on nuclear power – an issue that Microsoft founder Bill Gates has been working on. In 2006,...
View ArticleMicrosoft Pares Expenses By Cutting Jobs; Stock Climbs On Cloud Computing...
Microsoft quietly cut jobs this week but released few details. That news comes in what’s otherwise been a good week for the company as the stock reached a 15-year high.
View ArticleWashington Businesses Speak Up In Favor Of Trans-Pacific Partnership
Executives from Washington industries, ranging from software to aerospace to agriculture, are speaking out in favor of the Pacific trade agreement known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
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