After layoffs, Microsoft targets 7% of US workforce for buyouts - who’s affected?Microsoft is offering voluntary retirement buyouts to approximately 7% of its U.S. workforce for the first time in its 51-year history. Thi...
23 Apr, 2026, 11.52 PM IST
Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs in push for efficiencyMeta Platforms is set to lay off approximately 8,000 employees, about 10% of its workforce, on May 20. This significant workforce reduction...
23 Apr, 2026, 11.25 PM IST
Microsoft plans first voluntary employee buyout: ReportMicrosoft is planning its first voluntary employee buyout in the Windows maker's 51-year history. Microsoft is also adjusting the way it do...
23 Apr, 2026, 09.25 PM IST
Meet Daniel Shapero, who went from ‘employee #300ish’ to becoming the new CEO of LinkedInDaniel Shapero has been appointed the new CEO of LinkedIn, succeeding Ryan Roslansky. Shapero, who joined LinkedIn in 2008 and most recentl...
23 Apr, 2026, 02.39 PM IST
Microsoft HR head Amy Coleman sends a strong 'let go' message to employees. Here's what her email readTech giant Microsoft has made some sweeping changes in the HR department. In an email to employees, Microsoft Chief People Officer Amy Cole...
26 Mar, 2026, 03.16 PM IST
Microsoft's Rajesh Jha, head of experiences and devices unit, to retireRajesh Jha, a senior executive at Microsoft overseeing Windows and Microsoft 365 apps such as Word and Microsoft Teams, will retire after m...
13 Mar, 2026, 07.58 AM IST
For 20 years, he lived and breathed Microsoft, then was laid off, and now he shares a warning about Big TechAfter two decades at Microsoft, Joe Friend, 62, was unexpectedly laid off, forcing him to accelerate retirement plans and re-evaluate his c...
26 Oct, 2025, 10.36 AM IST
Microsoft had warned Bill Gates about sending 'flirtatious emails' to female employee in 2008The matter was dropped after Gates told them he would stop.
19 Oct, 2021, 01.00 PM IST
Microsoft says it warned Bill Gates about flirting in 2008Brad Smith, then Microsoft's general counsel and now its president and vice chair, and another executive met with Bill Gates after the comp...
19 Oct, 2021, 10.15 AM IST
Microsoft to help Indian Railways employees connect with healthcare servicesMicrosoft had launched Kaizala designed for the Indian market to enable large group communications and work management.
04 Apr, 2019, 01.50 PM IST
Nokia all set to suspend operations at Chennai plant todayIn a separate tax case, the Supreme Court had ordered Nokia India on March 14 to give a Rs 3,500 crore guarantee before it transfers the pl...
01 Nov, 2014, 09.40 AM IST
Microsoft's global job cut next year to have marginal impact in IndiaMicrosoft plans to complete retrenchment and transformation of its handset business by June 30, 2015, most of which will be done by end of ...
18 Jul, 2014, 04.00 AM IST
Chennai Nokia factory to be contract manufacturing unit of MicrosoftThe Nokia factory in Chennai will become a contract manufacturing unit for Microsoft, the management of the handset maker told employee rep...
24 Apr, 2014, 10.09 AM IST
Nokia may complete handset business deal with Microsoft by month endNokia today said it expects US $ 7.2 bn deal with Microsoft for sale of its mobile devices and services business to complete by the end of ...
19 Apr, 2014, 07.27 PM IST
Voluntary retirement scheme is optional to employees, says NokiaFinnish handset major Nokia today said the voluntary retirement scheme announced by the company for the employees of its facility near here...
15 Apr, 2014, 09.12 PM IST
- Microsoft trains Indian Army to bag corporate jobs
The Indian Army has launched a vocational training programme in association with global software maker Microsoft Corporation to equip over ...
07 Dec, 2010, 11.13 AM IST
- 'Indian cos keen on increasing productivity at low cost'
Indian companies that are clients of large IT multinationals are more demanding than their other Asian counterparts, and are keen to know h...
03 Apr, 2009, 01.47 AM IST