Based on several reports is appears very likely that Microsoft will announce that Satya Nadella will be the next CEO. He brings an engineering background to the C suite
The Microsoft CEO derby is heating up. As we discussed earlier this week the short list is down to a handful of candidates, including current Ford CEO Alan Mulally and former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop (soon to rejoin Microsoft in charge of devices). Apparently Elop has floated some bold ideas that may..
By all accounts Microsoft is struggling. It’s true that Bing is growing, but only slightly, while partner Yahoo continues to lose search share (to Bing) keeping the “Search Alliance” in the doldrums. Microsoft also recently took $6+ billion write-down on its 2007 aQuantive..
Yusuf Mehdi, who reportedly is the ” longest-running executive in Microsoft’s Online Services Division,” (which houses Bing) is heading over to the company’s Xbox division. Reasons for the shift aren’t entirely clear. But Mehdi is a key executive for “OSD” and..
ReadWrite/Web reports Microsoft’s Principal Scientist of Bing has left to join the Twitter team. Alek Kołcz, formerly a Scientist at Microsoft Live Labs, a co-chair at CIKM and a System Architect at AOL is now at Twitter.
The Seattle Times Newspaper published an interview with Microsoft’s CEO, Steve Ballmer. The interview covered many topics but I wanted to highlight the search specific topics