Microsoft has finally concluded its protracted search and chosen its new CEO: Satya Nadella, who as executive vice president of the company’s Cloud and Enterprise group has successfully steered the shift of the company’s back-end server software and tools to the cloud.
Microsoft’s cloud chief, Satya Nadella, will lead the company as its next chief executive officer, according to a report from Bloomberg.
Last April, Microsoft committed to matching Amazon’s Web Services prices for compute, storage and bandwidth.
Bing has barely any market share in China, but Microsoft hopes to change that in the next year or two by investing more resources into the local version of the search engine.
The Syrian Electronic Army claimed credit for grabbing control of a pair of Microsoft company Twitter accounts and the firm’s primary blog for a short time Saturday.
Ford CEO Alan Mulally, seeking to end speculation over a possible move to Microsoft, told the Associated Press on Monday that he will not become the software company’s next CEO.
Steve Ballmer, still Microsoft CEO , is nearly $3.2 billion richer than he was a year ago, his good fortune driven by a 34.5% increase in Microsoft’s share price during 2013.
Skype said its social media properties were targeted, with the Syrian Electronic Army appearing to claim credit for the hacks.
He will be responsible for driving the company’s technology strategy with a focus on accelerating innovation, product development and R&D.
Verizon Communications will report on law-enforcement requests for information on its customers that it received in 2013, following similar moves that major online companies have made, but rival AT&T has not.
