Satya Nadella is Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft.
Satya Narayana Nadella is an engineer and Indian American business executive. He is the Chief Executive Officer of Microsoft, succeeding Steve Ballmer in 2014. Before becoming CEO, he was the executive vice president of Microsoft’s cloud and enterprise group, responsible for building and running the company’s computing platforms.
Microsoft
Sat, Aug 19th, 1967
American
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Mangalore University, Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Master’s degree in computer science
University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Master’s degree in business administration
Microsoft - CEO
Sun Microsystems - Member of technology staff
The strong advertising revenue comes from Microsoft’s LinkedIn social network. This also indicates a strong uptick in advertisers’ activity leaving the pandemic woes behind.
General Motors will work with Microsoft to promote productivity. The partnership will also help to introduce new mobility services to General Motors’ customers.
In its biggest gaming acquisition to date, Microsoft sealed a deal with taking over ZeniMax Media’s global operations while getting straight access to some of the popular gaming franchises. The acquisition will be closed by the second half of 2021.
The e-commerce retail giant Walmart is the new player in the race for acquiring the Chinese social media platform TikTok. However, Walmart will be joining Microsoft in the bid for TikTok. Walmart sees a massive opportunity in integrating TikTok’s audience to its e-commerce retail business.
A push by the Trump administration has got Microsoft to consider a massive acquisition of TikTok’s global operations. It remains to be seen if Microsoft is willing to shell some more tens of billions of dollars for this deal.