GoPro Hires Former Microsoft Exec Tony Bates as President

Where do you go if you've been passed over to run one of the biggest tech companies in the world? GoPro, apparently.

GoPro announced Wednesday that it has hired Tony Bates to take over as its president and board member. Bates was previously CEO of Skype and became an executive VP at Microsoft when it acquired Skype for $8.5 billion in 2011.

Bates had been in the running to succeed Steve Ballmer as CEO of Microsoft earlier this year, according to multiple reports, but the company ended up picking Satya Nadella instead. Bates left Microsoft in early March, about a month after Nadella took over Read more...