Here’s how Microsoft is helping India with its COVID-19 catastrophe
May 5, 2021 at 8:48 am
To alleviate India’s severe oxygen shortage, Microsoft worked with the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum to provide oxygen concentration devices to healthcare facilities in India. The first arrived last week. (FedEx Photo via Microsoft)
With several thousand employees across 11 locations in India, and many more employees in other countries with families in India, Microsoft is acutely aware of the devastation sweeping the country during a second wave of coronavirus infections.
NPR reported Tuesday that India now has more than 20 million reported coronavirus infections and nearly 3.5 million people who are actively being treated for COVID-19. CBS News reported that the disease has killed 120 people an hour on average over the last two weeks.
SEATTLE The pileup of bodies waiting for cremation is 10 miles long in Lalita Uppala’s hometown of Jabalpur. Fifteen of her cousins and their families are stricken with the coronavirus.
Tech Moves: Longtime exec Kurt DelBene to retire from Microsoft; Hiya promotes Kush Parikh to president; and more
January 27, 2021 at 1:31 pm
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Tech Moves covers notable hires, promotions and personnel changes in the Pacific NW tech community. Submissions: tips@geekwire.com Kurt DelBene‘s second stint at Microsoft will end later this year.
The former Microsoft Office president, whose recent role has included leading the company’s pandemic response, will retire at the end of Microsoft’s fiscal year in June, the company confirmed this week.
DelBene was originally at Microsoft for more than two decades, leaving the company amid a reorganization announced in 2013. He went on to work as a senior advisor to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, appointed by then-President Obama to address problems with the Healthcare.gov web portal. He was also a venture partner at Seattle’s Madrona Venture Group.