Nadella, 46, replaces Steve Ballmer and becomes only the third leader the company has had in its 38-year history. Microsoft has named Satya Nadella, an executive in charge of the company’s small, but growing business of delivering software and services over the Internet, as its new CEO. Company founder Bill […]
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Microsoft close to naming CEO, Ford’s Mulally stays put
Microsoft Corp (MSFT) is closer to naming a new chief executive, according to a source familiar with the board’s thinking, but it lost a front-runner candidate on Tuesday when Ford Motor Co’s (NYS:F) chief, Alan Mulally, said he would not be going to the software giant. Mulally’s comments reignited the […]
Qualcomm promotes Mollenkopf to CEO, ends Microsoft talk
Qualcomm Inc, the world’s biggest maker of cellphone chips, unexpectedly named Chief Operating Officer Steve Mollenkopf as chief executive on Friday, heading off the possibility he might be poached to run Microsoft Corp. Mollenkopf had been in line to eventually succeed CEO Paul Jacobs, the 51-year-old son of a Qualcomm […]
