"There is no place for hate and racism in our society. Empathy and shared understanding are a start, but we must do more," Nadella said in a tweet on Monday. "I stand with the Black and African American community and we are committed to building on this work in our company and in our communities."
Altman said he was "looking forward" to returning to his previous role at the AI firm.
Delhi Capitals join hands with Satya Nadella to own MLC team in US
Nadella has been ranked fifth among 50 global corporate heads by Fortune Magazine in its annual 'Businessperson of the Year' compilation, followed by CEO of Milwaukee-based maker of water heaters A O Smith Ajita Rajendra on the 34th spot, HDFC Bank's Managing Director Aditya Puri on the 36th position and Banga on 40th.
Gates has sold 20 mn shares each quarter under a pre-set trading plan
...compared with 153,000 in all of 2024.
A poetry aficionado and a cricket fan, Microsoft's new CEO India-born Satya Nadella learnt lessons in teamwork and leadership by playing the gentleman's game.
'Returning Indians can leverage their international skills and the strong funding environment for start-ups here.'
Nadella has previously described cricket as his "passion"
The offer of $196 per share represents a premium of 49.5 per cent to LinkedIn's Friday closing price
A cricket buff and poetry loving electrical engineer from Hyderabad Satya Nadella is the next occupant of the Microsoft corner office in Redmond from where Bill Gates built his software empire.
The Delhi high court on Friday awarded Rs 20 lakh to Microsoft in damages in a 12-year-old copyright infringement suit. Microsoft said that a Mumbai-based firm was illegally using its software programs in which its copyrighted products, including Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office and Windows Server were being reproduced and used for commercial purposes at the firm's offices. The court had on May 24, 2010, passed an injunction restraining the Mumbai firm from infringing the plaintiffs' software programs.
This would be the first visit to India as Google CEO.
Wojcicki, 54, said in her blog post that she will focus on "family, health, and personal projects I'm passionate about." Wojcicki, who was previously a senior vice president for ad products at Google, became CEO of YouTube in 2014.
The India centre, which is the seventh such facility for the company globally, will function as a satellite to Microsoft's Redmond-based Digital Crimes Unit.
In webcast address to India, Microsoft CEO says Azure seeing 'incredible' momentum here, with technology adaption racing in unprecedented ways.
Microsoft CEO holds all-hands-meet with India employees, reiterates thrust on 'mobile-first, cloud-first' strategy
For Microsoft so far, Nadella has proved a Santa
Institute recalls them as fairly average in their batch of 1989 while students attribute success stories to the environment here.
In August, Steve Ballmer said he would retire within 12 months.
Here are a few issues that are most talked about Modi's California visit
Speaking at a fireside chat with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, he said the big change driving this transformation was the deepening of mobile networks which were working at a much faster pace than before.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi praised the stellar achievements of Indian Americans in his remarks at the state dinner in which he had his high-profile guests often in laughter.
He will be in Mumbai for a day to deliver a keynote address at Future Unleashed.
Nadella advised the start-up community to learn from the failures
Google will lay off 12,000 jobs across the globe, its CEO Sundar Pichai announced on Friday, becoming the latest tech giant after Microsoft, Facebook and Amazon to retrench staff en mass amid the global economic downturn. In an email to employees, the Indian-origin CEO said: "I have some difficult news to share. We've decided to reduce our workforce by approximately 12,000 roles." Pichai said the layoffs at Google were carried out after a "rigorous review" of its operations.
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US President Barack Obama plans to honour Microsoft's Indian-origin CEO Satya Nadella with the 'Champions of Change' award.
With Satya Nadella becoming CEO at software giant Microsoft, 10 Indian-origin persons holding top posts at global corporations manage businesses worth about $350 billion.
These leaders also created wealth for their investors.
Indian-American businessman Sanjay Govil is convinced Twenty20 cricket can be the next big cultural import into the United States, following a trail blazed by yoga and Bollywood-style weddings.
These include executives from firms such as Google, Facebook and Apple.
"In terms of local taxes, in terms of local small business productivity, local large business competitiveness, their educational outcomes, their entrepreneurial work, that's what matters," the Microsoft CEO said.
These leaders also created wealth for their investors.
The $9.5 billion Nokia deal was the last in a string of bad deals struck by Chief Executive Satya Nadella's predecessor, Steve Ballmer.
In the first major realignment of workforce since India-born Satya Nadella took over as CEO, Microsoft has announced slashing of up to 18,000 jobs worldwide by next year as the software giant attempts to sharpen focus on cloud and mobile offerings.
8 CEOs on the list are female, and they far outpace the median pay for the Equilar 100 as a whole
Bezos wears it on his sleeve, Nadella keeps it quiet
The US president-elect met Silicon Valley's most powerful executives -- CEO of Microsoft Satya Nadella, Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Tim Cook of Apple, Elon Musk from Tesla, Larry Page and Eric Schmidt of Alphabet -- parent company of Google among others.
In the US and elsewhere, Microsoft employees view their new CEO as 'a performer, a doer' who will change things for the better. Ritu Jha and P Rajendran report.
Microsoft Corp said on Wednesday it would cut 7,800 jobs and write down about $7.6 billion related to its Nokia handset business, which it acquired in 2014.
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