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• Transformation requires making big bets: EMC’s Jon Peirce

  EMC's senior VP, IT, Jon Peirce talks about moving the technology company’s own IT function from a ‘regulated monopoly’ to provider of competitive advantage.

• Too many tech fish in the c-suite: Embracing new roles that overlap with IT

  Research shows relatively few CIOs are equipped for the demands of a digital world, leading to the introduction of roles like the CMO, CDO and CINO to better take advantage of digital trends. So how can CIOs continue to embrace the expansion of the c-suite into what has always been their domain?
  

• Microsoft rented Elop for 14 months at $1.3M per month

  Microsoft's 14-month rent of former Nokia CEO Stephen Elop cost the firm at least $18 million, or about $1.3 million each month.

• Apple's Tim Cook breaks into top 10 CEO list

  Apple CEO Tim Cook today moved up several spots in an annual ranking of the top chief executives in the U.S., climbing eights spots and breaking into the Top 10 for the first time.

• Apple's Ahrendts sells $8.7M in stock as Watch launch nears

  Apple's head of retail and online sales, Angela Ahrendts, has sold almost 70,000 shares of company stock worth approximately $8.7 million since the first of the month, according to filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

• Tim Cook's 2014 pay package dwarfed by new hire Ahrendts'

  Apple CEO Tim Cook's total 2014 compensation of $9.2 million, while more than double his pay package the year before, was dwarfed by the $73.4 million awarded to one of his subordinates, retail chief Angela Ahrendts, regulatory filings revealed yesterday.

• Twitter stock jumps on report that CEO is on way out

  After reporting slowing growth and getting passed by Instagram in number of users, Twitter's stock price jumped Tuesday on speculation that CEO Dick Costolo might be leaving the company.

• The party's over for Microsoft CEO Nadella

  Well, that honeymoon didn't last long.

• Microsoft shareholders approve Nadella's mega-millions pay package

  Microsoft's shareholders have approved CEO Satya Nadella's multimillion-dollar pay package but by a margin much smaller than similar votes in the past..

• ISS says Microsoft's Nadella is paid too much

  A prominent advisor to big-time investors has urged clients to vote against Microsoft's pay package for its new CEO, Satya Nadella, saying that his compensation this year was out of whack when compared to competing companies and the firm's track record.

• Apple hands 8 execs stock awards worth up to $27M

  Apple recently awarded eight executives stock grants that were worth almost $13 million each at Thursday's closing price, with as much as another $14 million up for grabs.

• The six mindsets of effective leadership

  The world of IT leadership has changed; it’s no longer about keeping IT systems humming. It is now about the ability to lead high performance organisations that partner with the business to consistently deliver services.

• Nadella's 2014 comp package tops $84M

  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella may have been on the job only eight months, but his compensation package for 2014 topped $84 million, according to regulatory filings Monday.

• Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, backs off 'karma' advice to women about pay

  One hundred and forty characters weren't enough space for Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, to backpedal from comments he made at a women-in-computing conference, so he took to his firm's website.

• Microsoft's Nadella on Windows 9: 'It came and went'

  Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said Windows has been re-architected to give it a central role in the Internet of Things.