By Noel Randewich and Sruthi Ramakrishnan SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Qualcomm Inc, the worlds biggest maker of cellphone chips, unexpectedly named Chief Operating Officer Steve Mollenkopf as chief executive on Friday, heading off the possibility he might be poached to run Microsoft Corp. Mollenkopf had been in line to eventually succeed CEO Paul Jacobs, the […]

(Reuters) – Chipmaker Qualcomm Inc said Chief Operating Officer Steve Mollenkopf will become chief executive in March, replacing Paul Jacobs who will become executive chairman. Bloomberg News reported on Thursday that Microsoft Corp was considering Mollenkopf as a candidate for chief executive as it reaches the final stages of a process to find a replacement […]