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Taking shares in group led by Satya Nadella is a vote of confidence
Acquisition a sign that group’s future lies in fostering more open, online networks
Revenue boost from cloud business and upbeat forecast add to stock price confidence
Move that will see division’s chief depart is part of group’s cloud computing push
Results reinforce hopes that software company’s profit margins have bottomed out
Compassion among teammates is admirable but managers have to take a different view
Microsoft’s chief executive outlines how empathy can change corporate culture
Over chicken at Lord’s, the cricket fan talks about empathy, Bill Gates’s shadow — and why he has doubts about his doosra
Tech giants agree partnership for Alexa and Cortana AI assistants to swap commands
Titles about the relentless march of technology dominate the FT/McKinsey annual prize
Women feel rage and resentment that eviscerates any joy in work
Nadella sketches out plans for post-smartphone platform that will depend heavily on AI
A levy on machines, some say, could thwart job-creating technologies
GE scrapped its practice of ranking employees for a reason. It is a flawed concept
The technology chief executive is future-proofing his own employees
Silicon Valley fears vilification like bankers for prospering at expense of everyman
The chief executive reboots in an effort to capitalise on machine learning
Apple, Microsoft and Google’s launch of innovative products hint at a sector revival
Efforts by chief executive Satya Nadella to push group faster towards cloud pay off
Software company’s transformation to openness is the only way businesses can stay young and relevant
The profits look fudged, but the non-GAAP critics should back off
This is data ownership but not as we knew it. Nor is it the way that the internet was meant to work
LinkedIn deal an opportunity to propel growing services group
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