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Yusuf Mehdi, Microsoft’s consumer chief marketing officer and one of its longest-serving executives, is leaving the company after 35 years. He announced the decision in an internal memo to staff on Thursday, first reported by Business Insider. Mehdi isn’t walking out the door immediately. He plans to work through the next fiscal year—which at Microsoft…
FILE Picture (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File) Microsoft has finally put numbers on its voluntary retirement program, and the package combines healthcare coverage, cash severance, and a partial stock vesting bump for long-serving US employees who decide to walk away. The terms were meant to go live for staff on Wednesday, but according to The Verge,…
GitHub CTO Vlad Fedorov has published a public apology after two major incidents left thousands of repositories and pull requests in broken states. The platform’s April uptime has dropped below 85 percent—far below its 99.9% SLA—driven by a sharp surge in AI agent workflows demanding 30 times current infrastructure capacity. Ghostty developer Mitchell Hashimoto, GitHub’s…
Microsoft’s former CEO Steve Ballmer is quite angry with Joseph Sanberg, the founder of once high-flying fintech startup Aspiration Partners. Ballmer invested millions in the Aspiration Partners, along with several other tech celebrities. Green fintech startup Aspiration Partners offered what it called sustainable banking services like credit cards and investment products that avoided fossil fuels….
Oracle announced to cut jobs across its global office last month, impacting thousands of employees. The layoffs, which were communicated through an early 6am email, have triggered reactions across the tech industry. Amid this, a former Microsoft senior executive has shared a LinkedIn post with a message for the laid off Oracle employees. Sara N,…
FILE (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein, File) It seems investors’ anxiety about the rise in capital expenditure of companies to fuel their artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure and strategy has reached China as well. In the past few months, some of America’s biggest technology companies including Amazon, Meta, Google and Microsoft have seen billions wiped out from their…
Microsoft has appointed Charlie Bell, its former security chief, as the company’s new engineering quality head — less than a year after CEO Satya Nadella said AI writes 30% of its code. The move comes amid rising Windows 11 bugs, underwhelming Copilot adoption, and growing evidence that AI-generated code introduces more errors than it eliminates….
Microsoft’s Commercial CEO Judson Althoff has reshaped his leadership team, promoting four executives to senior vice president roles. This move aims to accelerate AI adoption and enhance agility, as the company navigates a significant AI platform shift. The restructuring focuses on tightening customer feedback loops and empowering faster decision-making to meet evolving market demands. Microsoft’s…
Elon Musk, Satya Nadella (File photos) As the AI race hot up in 2025, the corporate leadership in Google, Microsoft, Meta and other tech companies changed the way companies work. Driven by the high stakes of the AI race, the world’s most powerful tech leaders shifted into what Silicon Valley calls “Founder Mode”. From personally…
Norway’s $2 trillion Sovereign Wealth Fund recently voted against two key proposals involving Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella. At the company’s annual shareholder’s meeting on December 5, the Fund voted against Nadella’s compensation package as well as him continuing as chair of Microsoft’s board. Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund is managed by Norges Bank Investment Management. As…
