Satya Nadella: News
25 Jan 2023
MicrosoftMicrosoft's profit declines by 12% in Q4 amid economic uncertainties
Microsoft has announced its earnings report for the final three months of 2022. The tech giant recorded its lowest growth in revenue since 2016, while profit dropped by double digits.
24 Jan 2023
MicrosoftMicrosoft extends partnership with OpenAI in a multibillion dollar investment
Microsoft has decided to extend its partnership with ChatGPT owner OpenAI via a "multiyear multibillion dollar investment."
17 Jan 2023
MicrosoftOpenAI's viral chatbot ChatGPT is coming to Microsoft Azure service
Microsoft has announced the expansion of Azure OpenAI Service to the general public. As a cherry on top, the company has revealed it will add OpenAI's viral chatbot ChatGPT to the cloud-based service "soon."
04 Jan 2023
Microsoft#NewsBytesExplainer: How Satya Nadella brought Microsoft back from irrelevancy
Microsoft was seen as a relic of the past when Satya Nadella took charge as CEO in 2014. It had missed every significant tech innovation in the past decade and was battling a complacent and political work culture at that time.
01 Mar 2022
MicrosoftMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella's son Zain Nadella dies at 26
Zain Nadella, the son of Microsoft Corporation's Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella and his wife Anu, died on Monday morning, the company said in an email to its executive staff.
30 Nov 2021
TwitterIndian CEOs now manage these leading Silicon Valley technology companies
Parag Agrawal's transition from the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Twitter to the microblogging platform's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) is a landmark moment for the company.
13 Jun 2021
MicrosoftMicrosoft announces Windows 10 retirement, teases launch of next-generation Windows
Microsoft has recently announced that it will end support for Windows 10 on October 14, 2025.
11 Jun 2021
MicrosoftMove over consoles, Microsoft will now develop Xbox streaming sticks
It is no secret that the availability of gaming consoles including the PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X has taken a hit due to the ongoing global chip shortage.
26 May 2021
MicrosoftMicrosoft's Satya Nadella teases 'next generation' Windows announcement 'very soon'
Earlier this week, we had reported that Windows 10 could see significant user interface (UI) changes at Microsoft's Build 2021 virtual conference.
01 Feb 2021
FacebookAustralia calls Google's bluff; Microsoft offers Bing as replacement
Last month, Google had threatened to disable its flagship search engine in Australia to coerce the government from passing a controversial new law forcing Google to pay local media outlets for sharing their news content.
03 Aug 2020
TwitterNewsBytes Briefing: William English, computer mouse co-inventor, dies at 91
A lot has happened over the weekend.
01 Aug 2020
IndiaUS will ban Chinese app TikTok, declares President Donald Trump
After indicating his views about TikTok, owned by Chinese giant ByteDance several times, United States President Donald Trump said on Friday (local time) that he will ban the popular short-form video app.
30 Jun 2020
MicrosoftMicrosoft suspends all advertising on Facebook, Instagram
Microsoft has suspended all advertising on Facebook and Instagram at least until August.
27 Jun 2020
MicrosoftMicrosoft is closing all its stores: Here's why
In a bid to adjust with the new 'normal', Microsoft has announced the plan to close its physical stores permanently.
30 Apr 2020
MicrosoftMicrosoft Teams' daily active users surge by 70% to 75mn
As the novel coronavirus pandemic forces more and more people to switch to the routine of remote meetings and chats, work communication tools continue to gain benefits.
14 Mar 2020
MicrosoftBill Gates steps down from Microsoft's board: Here's why
Bill Gates, one of the richest men in the world, has decided to step down from the board of Microsoft - the company he co-founded more than four decades ago with Paul Allen.
18 Feb 2020
IndiaMicrosoft opens a new engineering center in India
In a bid to expand its footprint in the Indian market, Microsoft has launched a new engineering hub in the country.
31 Jan 2020
MicrosoftWho is Arvind Krishna? Little-known facts about IBM's new CEO
After Alphabet and Microsoft, International Business Machines (IBM) has decided to bring an Indian-origin Chief Executive.
14 Jan 2020
MicrosoftIt's just bad: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella speaks on CAA
Hyderabad-born Satya Nadella, who is leading Microsoft, has become the first CEO of a tech giant to weigh-in on India's new law of citizenship that has sparked protests.
18 Oct 2019
MicrosoftSatya Nadella gets 66% salary hike. Guess his total earnings?
Microsoft Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Satya Nadella received a massive 66% raise in salary, during the fiscal year 2018-19.
15 Sep 2019
IndiaEngineers' Day: The Indian legends making us proud
Not many people know this, but the birth anniversary of Bharat Ratna awardee M Visvesvaraya is commemorated as Engineers' Day.
24 Jun 2019
India#CareerBytes: Couldn't clear JEE Advanced? Here are seven alternative options
Results for the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced were declared on June 14, and the counselling process for the same is currently underway.
24 Nov 2018
MicrosoftMicrosoft becomes US' most valuable company, surpassing Apple and Amazon
Microsoft has surpassed both Apple and Amazon to become the most valuable company in the US in terms of market capitalization.
11 Aug 2018
MicrosoftMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella sells $35mn-worth shares in biggest sale
Microsoft's Indian-origin CEO Satya Nadella has netted over $35 million after selling almost one-third of his common shares in the software giant.
23 Jul 2018
Elon MuskMeet Rohit Prasad, the Indian-born engineer who created Amazon's Alexa
Despite being a distant sci-fi vision in the 1970s, virtual assistants have become commonplace now.
14 Jun 2018
PepsiCoIndian-American Dhivya Suryadevara to take over as General Motors CFO
Another person of Indian origin has made their mark on the international platform. Indian-American Dhivya Suryadevara has been named the new Chief Finance Officer (CFO) of General Motors (GM), the US' largest automaker.
04 Jun 2018
Reserve Bank Of India (RBI)Business Roundup: Here are today's top 5 Business news
Here comes your daily roundup of business news.
04 Jun 2018
MicrosoftMicrosoft acquires GitHub: Is this the end of open-source software?
Microsoft has acquired world's largest open-source code repository website, GitHub for a whopping $7.5 billion in an all-stock deal.
04 May 2018
FacebookNeeraj Arora could be the new CEO of WhatsApp
After WhatsApp CEO and co-founder Jan Koum confirmed that he is quitting the company, reports have surfaced that the popular chat app's next potential CEO could be Neeraj Arora, who's the head of "All Things Business" at the company.
22 Apr 2018
Amazon7 engineering colleges (other than IITs/NITs) for Computer Science courses
With entrances for engineering colleges already going on, and with the plethora of engineering colleges in India, aspiring computer science engineers might find themselves overwhelmed by the options.
20 Apr 2018
Deepika PadukoneOla's Bhavish Aggarwal joins Padukone, Kohli, Nadella in TIME 100
A Bollywood star, an Indian cricketer, and an Indian-origin tech giant CEO feature in this year's TIME 100 list- an "annual list of the world's most influential people...whose time, in our estimation, is now."
01 Apr 2018
IndiaMicrosoft Ventures to fund Indian tech start-ups
Global-tech major Microsoft is looking at investing in Indian tech start-ups through its venture-funding arm "Microsoft Ventures".
24 Feb 2018
MicrosoftWho are the 10 highest-paid CEOs in tech industry?
We all know how hard it's to be a CEO. The Chief Executives, especially those at large companies, have more responsibility on their shoulders and also face greater pressures.
07 Nov 2017
IndiaKnowing Satya Nadella beyond Microsoft
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was recently in India.
30 Sep 2017
Bill GatesTaking three-dimensional (3D) selfies? Yup, AI can do that
Every day we are discovering new things that we can do with the help of AI.
15 Sep 2017
IndiaEngineers' Day: The Indian legends making us proud
Not many people know this, but the birth anniversary of Bharat Ratna awardee Mokshagundam Visvesvaraya is commemorated as Engineers' Day.
08 Sep 2017
MicrosoftSatya Nadella turns author with 'Hit Refresh'
More than three years ago, on a cold February day, Microsoft's board of directors placed a huge responsibility on Indian-origin business executive Satya Nadella.
25 Jul 2017
IndiaMicrosoft mulls on investing $100 million in Ola's parent firm
According to reports, Microsoft is now mulling on investing $50-100 million (Rs. 320-640 crore) to acquire a minority stake in ANI Technologies Pvt. Ltd, which runs Ola, the home-grown ride hailing platform.
28 Jun 2017
IndiaModi makes a business pitch that American businesses can't refuse
Modi's first US tour under Trump regime had him woo investors and then in the role reversal, get wooed.
25 Jun 2017
IndiaModi brainstorms with American CEOs, while Trump's shadow looms
Although Donald Trump is widely criticized, he is still the President of the United States and this means treading carefully around him lest he does something disastrous.