SATYA NADELLA

Activision's stock price hinges on Microsoft's planned acquisition and billionaire investor Warren Buffett is betting on it. There's a future world at stake.

Microsoft's results could benefit from sales of Office 365 productivity software subscriptions from customers wanting to avoid getting hit with price increases.

Security software makers are taking aim at Microsoft now that the company has shown just how big of a target it's become.

A top California state civil rights lawyer who was pursuing a discrimination case against video game giant Activision Blizzard has been fired, and another has quit in protest.

Despite its successful transition to the cloud, Microsoft still has a persisting problem when it comes to software updates. The company is trying to fix it.

Microsoft said that it “will not stand in the way if Activision Blizzard recognizes a union.”

In 2015, Microsoft bought Christian Reber's to-do list app, Wunderlist, for a sum that was reported to be between $100 million and $200 million.

The blast radius wasn't limited to social media. Even Amazon got pulled downward after hours ahead, of its fourth-quarter earnings announcement on Thursday.

Thousands of people braved a morning chill on a ceremonial boulevard in India's capital to watch a display of the country's military power and cultural diversity, but the colorful annual Republic Day spectacle was curtailed amid COVID-19.

The metaverse is a virtual universe that blends aspects of digital technologies including video-conferencing, games like Minecraft or Roblox, cryptocurrencies, email, virtual reality, social media and live-streaming. Quite how these pieces will fit together is a work in progress, but some tech giants already see it as the future of human communication and interaction. It’s “the next frontier,” Mark Zuckerberg said when he changed his company’s name from Facebook to Meta Platforms Inc. Commercial

Microsoft's planned $68.7 billion acquisition of gaming company Activision Blizzard is just the latest signal of how CEO Satya Nadella aims to dominate the metaverse.

Microsoft stunned the gaming industry when it announced this week it would buy game publisher Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion, a deal that would immediately make it a larger video-game company than Nintendo.

Microsoft's agreement to pay almost $69 billion for Activision Blizzard marks the highest price ever paid by a U.S. tech company in an acquisition.

A controversy over misconduct at Activision Blizzard made the publisher more affordable. It could help Microsoft win more game subscribers, an investor said.

Microsoft is paying nearly $70 billion for Activision Blizzard, the maker of 'Candy Crush' and ‘Call of Duty,’ as it seeks an edge in the fiercely competitive businesses of mobile gaming and virtual-reality technology. (Jan. 18)

Microsoft takes big $68.7 billion swing on video game company Activision Blizzard while legacy media stays on sidelines

Microsoft is paying nearly $70 billion for Activision Blizzard, the maker of Candy Crush and Call of Duty.

Microsoft says it is opening an inquiry into how it responds to workplace sexual harassment and gender discrimination.

The Department of Justice said on Tuesday that Microsoft demanded more information than was necessary from permanent residents in hiring process.

From Satya Nadella at Microsoft to Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, CEOs, founders and insiders have been cashing in their stock at the highest pace on record.

The rare vote for an activist initiative comes after a board-level investigation into co-founder Bill Gates' activities almost two decades earlier.

Newly named Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal (PUH-rag AH-gur-wahl) has emerged from behind the scenes to take over one of Silicon Valley’s highest-profile and politically volatile jobs.

These are the stocks posting the largest moves in the premarket.

Microsoft's Windows 10 release cadence now aligns with Windows 11, which came out last month. Users can stick with Windows 10 through 2025.

The announcement comes weeks after one of GitHub's most prominent competitors, GitLab, went public. GitLab was worth twice what Microsoft paid for GitHub.

While Microsoft expects fast growth to continue in its Azure cloud business, the company is investing in security, with a major executive hire and acquisitions.

Microsoft's failed attempt to take over TikTok's U.S. assets last year was "the strangest thing I've ever sort of worked on," CEO Satya Nadella said on Monday.

Microsoft is enhancing its Teams Phone service with a walkie-talkie feature, which Zoom Phone doesn't have.

Chief Microsoft lawyer Brad Smith is a major company stockholder, having joined the software maker in 1993 and become its president in 2015.

TakeLessons complements the on-demand learning content Microsoft already offers through LinkedIn Learning, which is available to premium subscribers.

The remarks from Nadella come as Microsoft pushes back reopening indefinitely due to concerns about the Covid-19 delta variant.

Microsoft used the announcement as an opportunity to talk about new features in its Teams communication app that can help people work remotely.

Microsoft is buying video editing technology after the service saw strong growth in the pandemic, notably in video formats used on TikTok and Instagram.

Microsoft will bring out Windows 11 six years after Windows 10, the longest stretch between operating system releases in the software company's history.

The combative post-Snowden relationship with government appears to have mellowed at a meeting last week. Should we be worried about what they might all do together?

The meeting follows a wave of cyberattacks that have brought added urgency to security issues.

The sounds that people will hear as they use Windows 11 are generally shorter and lower-pitched than those in Windows 10, the most popular PC operating system.

Amazon previously protested a high-profile Pentagon cloud contract that was awarded to Microsoft.

While Apple and Google delighted investors Tuesday, both companies offered hints to analysts and investors that the Delta variant and a slow recovery from the pandemic around the globe could create unknown problems in the future.

Microsoft signaled that improvements in advertising and labor markets should boost parts of its business, alongside continued Azure cloud strength.

Microsoft's Azure Virtual Desktop got more popular during the pandemic. Now Microsoft is coming out with Windows 365, an alternative that requires fewer skills.

The deal could help keep up the growth in Microsoft's security business.

Microsoft's performance under CEO Satya Nadella more "than anything else" is why Nadella was also named chairman, independent director John Thompson told CNBC.

Satya Nadella's Microsoft has become easier for companies to work with, it hasn't made deals that went bad, and its Teams and Azure assets are now common.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said the world needs a "more open platform," during the company's Windows 11 announcement on Thursday.

A build of an operating system named Windows 11 offers hints of what Microsoft could show Thursday when it talks about what's next for its PC operating system.

The change reflects the success Nadella has had in the past seven years making Microsoft more prominent in technology and business altogether.

From October 2025, there will be no new updates or security fixes for Windows 10.

There are good reasons for Microsoft to be readying a major Windows update this month. For one thing, Windows 10 has been around longer than its predecessors.

"Virtual events are here to stay," LinkedIn's Scott Roberts said of the investment in Hopin.

While the most recent Windows update was minimal, now Microsoft has something more major in mind, as Satya Nadella suggested to developers last week.

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella teased a big update to Windows, and he pointed to Azure updates that could attract developers at large companies.

Microsoft is regularly asked what it's doing as it reopens offices. Now it's being more transparent about some of its updates.

Controversy has not been a hallmark of Satya Nadella's Microsoft. Now he's confronting his predecessor Bill Gates' behavior from 21 years ago.

Despite damaging allegations suggesting Bill Gates pursued women who worked for him, don’t expect changes to his roles at the two iconic institutions he co-founded, Microsoft and his namesake philanthropic foundation, raising accountability concerns from critics.

This is the second consecutive update Microsoft is issuing to boost the performance of its PC operating system, as people stay home because of the pandemic.

Microsoft said Thursday it will raise the percentage of revenue that developers receive from sales of video games through its app store.

Microsoft says it supports Australia's plans to make the biggest digital platforms pay for news and would help small businesses transfer their advertising to Bing if Google quits the country. (AP Photo/Rick Rycroft)CANBERRA – Microsoft said on Wednesday it supports Australia’s plans to make the biggest digital platforms pay for news and would help small businesses transfer their advertising to Bing if Google quits the country. Morrison this week confirmed he had spoken to Nadella about Bing replacing Google in Australia. There are no plans to make smaller search engines such as Bing pay for linking users to Australian news, but the government has not ruled that option out. AdBut Google is resisting the Australian plan because it would have less control over how much it would have to pay.

(AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)CANBERRA – Australia's prime minister said on Monday that Microsoft is confident it can fill the void if Google carries out its threat to remove its search engine from Australia. Prime Minister Scott Morrison said he has spoken to Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella about its search engine, Bing, filling the space. AdAlthough Bing is Australia’s second most popular search engine, it has only a 3.6% market share, according to web analytics service Statcounter. AdThe mandatory code of conduct proposed by the government aims to make Google and Facebook pay Australian media companies fairly for using news content the tech giants siphon from news sites. But Google is resisting the Australian plan because it would have less control over how much it would have to pay.

The logo of Microsoft is displayed outside the headquarters in Paris, Friday, Jan. 8, 2021. Analysts surveyed by FactSet were expecting Microsoft to earn $1.64 per share on revenue of $40.2 billion for the fiscal quarter. The coronavirus pandemic sparked a massive shift to the cloud and to Microsoft that won't likely be reversed once the crisis is over, said Daniel Elman, an analyst at Nucleus Research. “So many people are already familiar with the Microsoft user interface that it’s a comfortable option," Elman said. Its cloud computing business segment grew 23% to $14.6 billion.

“More people may die if we don’t coordinate,” Biden told reporters during a news conference Monday in Wilmington, Delaware. The Trump administration is working on its own distribution plan, while Biden’s chief of staff indicated his transition team will proceed with their own planning separately because of the obstruction. Last week, a larger group of Republicans in Congress called on the Trump administration to allow Biden to begin receiving national security briefings. Since defeating Trump, Biden has devoted most of his public remarks to encouraging Americans to wear masks and embrace social distancing measures. But on whether Biden should receive coronavirus briefings, many of Trump's allies on Capitol Hill remained dug in.

“More people may die if we don’t coordinate,” Biden told reporters during a news conference in Wilmington, Delaware. The Trump administration is working on its own distribution plan, while Biden’s chief of staff indicated his transition team will proceed with their own planning separately because of the obstruction. Last week, a larger group of Republicans in Congress called on the Trump administration to allow Biden to begin receiving national security briefings. Since defeating Trump, Biden has devoted most of his public remarks to encouraging Americans to wear masks and embrace social distancing measures. But on whether Biden should receive coronavirus briefings, many of Trump's allies on Capitol Hill remained dug in.

Trump’s Labor Department is using a 55-year-old presidential order spurred by the Civil Rights Movement to scrutinize companies like Microsoft and Wells Fargo over their public commitments to diversity. The agency has oversight over the hiring practices of thousands of federal contractors that employ roughly a quarter of all American workers. But he said it’s more likely the Trump administration is using the move as a political tactic ahead of the presidential election. “It’s a chicken-and-egg problem.”The latest actions affecting contractors align with a broader Trump administration trend on matters of race. At least one university, the University of Iowa, suspended its diversity efforts in response the order.

Microsoft says the U.S. Labor Department is scrutinizing its efforts to boost Black employment and leadership at the tech company. The Labor Department did not respond to a question about whether it has started similar inquiries into other companies with federal contracts. The Trump administration’s move contrasts with a flurry of efforts by private companies and institutions to increase racial diversity in the wake of the Black Lives Matters protests. The Labor Department said its Microsoft inquiry follows a 1965 order signed by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson banning discriminatory hiring among federal contractors. It sets up a hotline for the Labor Department to investigate workplace training session complaints.

Microsoft is back to selling smartphones for the first time since it abandoned its mobile business more than four years ago. The company began taking orders Wednesday for the Surface Duo, a new dual-screen Android device that costs $1,399 and begins shipping in September. Microsoft is pitching the Duo as a more useful tool than a conventional smartphone, since it enables users to multitask with two separate apps or web pages at a time. Adding a mobile device to its Surface line of computers is a reversal for Microsoft after its short-lived ownership of smartphone-maker Nokia and its difficulties in transitioning its Windows operating system to the mobile era. Apple and Google's Android long ago cornered the market on phone operating systems, but Microsoft's rare partnership with Google means Duo comes with a suite of Android apps.

Sydney's S&P ASX 200 jumped 2.1% to 6,049.60 and the Kospi in Seoul picked up 1.1% to 2,276.79. Overnight, the S&P 500 added another 0.7% onto its four-month winning streak, closing within 3% of the record high it set in February, at 3,294.61. Big Tech led the way higher again, and Microsoft and Apple alone accounted for most of the S&P 500s gain. The rally followed reports showing that manufacturing has improved across much of the world, including in China, Europe and the United States. Roughly two-thirds of the way into earnings season, 84% of S&P 500 companies have reported stronger results than expected, according to FactSet.

His other company, Square, which like Twitter is based in San Francisco, is doing the same. It's too early to know whether remote work options will mean an exodus of highly-paid tech workers from San Francisco and Silicon Valley, where they've contributed to skyrocketing rents and housing prices. For companies that have built their empires on letting people communicate with far-flung friends and colleagues, moving toward remote work is not too hard of a sell. At Facebook, the CEO said employees will have to meet certain criteria to be considered for permanent remote work. This includes a level of seniority, strong performance and, naturally, being part of a team that supports remote work.

(CNN) - These days nearly every company is, or is in the process of becoming, a technology company. "One of the things I think a lot about is: If we use this term that every company is a digital company, every company is a software company, what does it mean?" Nadella said he thinks of it like a math formula: "Tech adoption" times "tech capability," multiplied "to the power of trust." "This is what I feel every company needs to do to become a software company," he said. "That's what led me all the way back to the origin of the company," Nadella said.

REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella got a 66% raise in the company's latest fiscal year. Nadella received $42.9 million in total compensation up from $25.8 million the year prior. Nadella took over as CEO in 2014 and under his leadership, Microsoft has become a major force in cloud computing. (In 2014, Nadella received a headline-making $84 million compensation package.) Google CEO Sundar Pichai received $1.9 million in overall compensation.

REDMOND, Wash. - Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella got a 66% raise in the company's latest fiscal year. Nadella received $42.9 million in total compensation up from $25.8 million the year prior. Nadella took over as CEO in 2014 and under his leadership, Microsoft has become a major force in cloud computing. (In 2014, Nadella received a headline-making $84 million compensation package.) Google CEO Sundar Pichai received $1.9 million in overall compensation.