{"id":7076,"date":"2021-06-18T08:40:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T12:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=7076"},"modified":"2021-06-18T08:40:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T12:40:16","slug":"satya-nadella-ceo-of-microsoft-named-as-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/satya-nadella-ceo-of-microsoft-named-as-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Satya Nadella, CEO Of Microsoft Named As Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Microsoft has appointed its CEO Satya Nadella as the technology company&#8217;s new chairman, replacing John Thompson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nadella took over as Microsoft CEO in 2014 and has been instrumental in expanding the business, which includes major acquisitions such as LinkedIn, Nuance Communications and ZeniMax.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thompson, Nadella&#8217;s predecessor, will now serve as an independent director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The change at the top comes just over a year after Gates stepped down from the board and said he would focus more on philanthropic work at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the world&#8217;s largest charities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last month, Microsoft admitted it conducted an investigation into Gates&#8217; involvement with an employee two decades ago after it was revealed he had tried to have a romantic relationship with the employee in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company declined to comment on whether it let Gates go.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/microsoft-board-elects-ceo-satya-nadella-chairman-2021-06-16\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in Reuters.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has appointed its CEO Satya Nadella as the technology company&#8217;s new chairman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[62],"class_list":["post-7076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-companies","tag-microsoft"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7076"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7104,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7076\/revisions\/7104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}