(Reuters) Big job cuts at Microsoft. The world’s largest software company is cutting up to 7,800 positions – most of them in its phone business. This move comes just one year after it launched one of the largest layoffs in tech history – some 18,000 jobs – as it tried to focus on cloud computing and mobile software services. Microsoft will write off $7.6 billion associated with Nokia’s handset unit it bought last year. It’s […]
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Microsoft unveils first Lumia smartphone without Nokia name
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) said it would roll out its Lumia 535 smartphone this month with an affordable price tag in its key markets, dropping the Nokia name just months after buying the Finnish company’s handset business. Loaded with its latest Windows Phone 8.1 operating system, the Lumia 535 and Lumia 535 dual SIM will be priced at around 110 euros (about $137) before taxes and subsidies, Microsoft said in a statement. The phone will feature a wide-angle 5 megapixel front-facing […]
Exclusive: Microsoft CEO Nadella to visit China amid antitrust probe – source
(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella is set to visit China in late September, a source familiar with the matter said on Thursday, as the Chinese government conducts an into the world’s largest software company. It is not clear if Nadella, who took over as Microsoft CEO in February, will meet with any Chinese government representatives as part of his visit, or try to resolve issues with the State Administration for Industry […]
Microsoft expected to announce thousands of job cuts Thursday
SEATTLE Thu Jul 17, 2014 12:03am EDT (Reuters) – Microsoft Corp is set to cut more than 6,000 jobs in an announcement expected early Thursday, according to sources familiar with the matter, as it trims its newly acquired Nokia phone business and reshapes itself as a cloud-computing and mobile-friendly software company. What could be the deepest job cuts in the company’s 39-year history come five months into the tenure of Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella, […]
The Fall Of An Icon: Nokia’s Device To Be Acquired By Microsoft
The Fall Of An Icon By: Natalie Kate Ann Juntado As the day gets closer for Microsoft to officially acquire Nokia’s device on the 25th of April, many of us are quite happy for Nokia, for them to finally rise again. Nokia phone has been overtaken in recent years by the likes of Samsung and Apple, it will be then reborn as a Microsoft mobile, if a supposed letter leaked online is accurate. “The […]
Nadella outran better-known candidates for Microsoft CEO
(Reuters) – The race to determine the next head of Microsoft Corp looks to have ended where it began, with the software giant poised to take the route of least risk and tap rising internal star Satya Nadella for the job. After a bruising, five-month selection process, the list of contenders was cut to six serious candidates, with the chief executive job nearly going to Ford Motor Co CEO Alan Mulally, an outsider favored by […]





