Microsoft's Purna Virji Talks Tech's Impact on Business
Hope King sat down with Purna Virji, Senior Manager of Global Engagement at Microsoft, to talk about how companies utilize advances in technology to expand their businesses.
Virji talks the rise in A.I. across industries. We dig into the feud between tech heavyweights Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, who publicly disagree on how A.I. will impact our future as humans.
And how Asia is embracing the technology to become more competitive, as opposed to being fearful of it. Virji digs into relationship-based marketing and why it is important for companies to expand their business strategy.
The Week's Top Stories is a guided tour through the biggest market stories of the week, from winning stocks to brutal dips to the facts and forecasts generating buzz on Wall Street.
Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell was tricked into an extended phone call in January with Russian pranksters posing as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, during which Powell appeared to discuss the economic impact of interest rate hikes.
Amazon on Thursday reported stronger-than-expected revenue and profits for the first quarter, sending its stocks higher in after-hours trading. But its prices took a dip in the evening amid concerns about a continued slowdown in the company's profitable cloud computing unit AWS.
A key index of underlying inflation that is closely followed by the Federal Reserve remained elevated last month, keeping the Fed on track to raise interest rates next week for the 10th time since March of last year.