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Redmond, US-based software giant is losing two of its top executives: Former Skype chief Tony Bates and marketing head Tami Reller, according to a report by tech news site Re/code.

Redmond, US-based software giant is losing two of its top executives: Former Skype chief Tony Bates and marketing head Tami Reller, according to a report by tech news site Re/code.

TechCrunch looked more closely into the compensation package of Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Satya Nadella submitted by the company in a filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

Tech giant Microsoft invested $15 million in location-based social networking app Foursquare and inked a licensing deal to use the latter's places database in their products and services.

ValueAct Holdings President Mason Morfit plans to influence Microsoft on how it sells Windows, the operating system that is behind most of the software giant's products, Bloomberg reported.

While the search for the next CEO of Microsoft Corp intensifies. lead contender Satya Nadella took the time to mingle with Paris startups in a conference, Bloomberg reported.

With Microsoft wanting to consider an internal employee for its new chief and its rumored shortlist dwindling with the promotion of Steve Mollenkopf as new Qualcomm chief, a TechCrunch report said the tech giant's new CEO might be Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise chief Satya Nadella by default.

Sources interviewed by Bloomberg said the Microsoft Board had favored Ford CEO Alan Mulally and internal executive Satya Nadella as the front runners to lead Microsoft.