Amazon To Allow Many Employees To Work From Home Indefinitely

October 13, 2021
The new policy was announced in a blog post and is a change from Amazon’s previous expectations that most staff members would return to the office at least three days a week when offices reopen in January. The message was signed by Amazon CEO Andy Jassy and said that it is ultimately for the company […]
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Microsoft CEO Says Failed TikTok Deal Was “Strangest Thing” He’s Ever Worked On

September 28, 2021
In August 2020, video-sharing platform TikTok was in talks to sell its US operations after the Trump administration threatened to ban the platform unless its parent company, ByteDance, found a US buyer for it.  Tech giant Microsoft became a potential acquirer at one stage but backed out in September 2020 after Oracle was chosen to […]
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Bill Gates Raises $1 Billion As Corporate CEOs Support Clean-Energy Push

September 21, 2021
BlackRock is making a five-year, $100 million grant to clean energy from its charitable foundation. Microsoft, alongside other supporters such as General Motors, American Airlines, and Bank of America, is providing a mix of equity capital and “offtakes”, or purchase agreements tied to the clean-energy projects. “We’re not doing this to make money,” Larry Fink […]
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Bill And Melinda Gates Finalise Their Divorce After 27 Years Of Marriage

August 3, 2021
Bill Gates and Melinda French Gates were one of the most prominent couples in global business, working together at Microsoft between 1987 and 1996. The couple married in 1994 and launched the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in 2000. However, more recently, Melinda expressed her discomfort with her husband’s connection with billionaire investor and convicted […]
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Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Becomes Ninth Member Of $100 Billion Club

July 9, 2021
Steve Ballmer is the ninth person to reach the $100 billion milestone, amongst the likes of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Microsoft’s Bill Gates, French businessman Bernard Arnault, and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. Since the start of 2021, Ballmer has seen his worth increase by $20.1 billion. In 2014, the American businessman purchased the Los Angeles Clippers […]
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Sustainable Thinking Applied: 10 Brands We Celebrate

April 30, 2021
While the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are not legally binding, governments are expected to own and establish national frameworks to achieve the 17 Goals by 2030. Coupled with this, private-sector enthusiasm for the SDGs is strong and growing and we see more and more companies translating interest into actions. Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) […]
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Microsoft Eyes TikTok Purchase

August 3, 2020
Should a deal be struck, CEO Satya Nadella could acquire the fastest-growing social media platform in the world.
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Bill Gates Steps Down from Microsoft Board

March 16, 2020
The 65-year-old said that he wished to devote his time to ‘philanthropic priorities’.
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Bill Gates Donates $100 Million Towards Fighting Drastic Impact of Coronavirus

February 17, 2020
Last week the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation committed $100 million towards the fight against coronavirus, though Gates has also warned the spread of the virus could be “very, very dramatic”.
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Microsoft’s Carbon Negative Pledge: Is CSR Far More Complex Than We Think?

February 12, 2020
Microsoft recently pledged to remove "all of the carbon" from the environment that it alone has emitted since the firm began operating in 1975.
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Microsoft Tested 4-Day Work Week and Increased Productivity 40%

November 6, 2019
Microsoft’s Japanese division attempted a 4-day work week for the month of August this year; the results? A whole 40% more productivity from employees.
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5 Things Microsoft Got Right

July 31, 2019
Ever since its slow but grand inception in the tech scene, Microsoft has been carrying the torch of computing technology and though rivalled by many great firms, it has maintained its competitiveness across several tech spheres and markets. But how has it managed to excel so profusely of late?   Microsoft, being such a prevalent […]
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