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☆ Buy top tech stocks like Apple ahead of their results before it's too late, Bank of America says
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-27 | by ( Michael Bloom | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

The investment bank says stocks like Apple are table-pounding buys ahead of quarterly results this week. CNBC Pro combed through Bank of America research to find buy-rated tech stocks with more room to run. Apple Bank of America recently raised its price target on the iPhone maker to $256 from $230. Shopify Time to buy shares of the Canadian provider of websites for businesses, according to Bank of America. Analyst Brad Sills recently upgraded Shopify to buy from neutral as a "more balanced growth & margin profile" take hold.

Persons: Wamsi Mohan, Apple, Mohan, GenAI, Brad Sills, Sills, Shopify, Sachin Salgaonkar, Mark Murphy, Satya Kumar, Samir Organizations: Bank of America, CNBC, Microsoft, Apple, Micron Technology, Sea, Apple Bank of America, Apple Vision, Micron Locations: Bank, Shopify, U.S, Singapore, Southeast Asia, Asia, Brazil, Boston, New York

☆ Leaked Microsoft org chart reveals the top people running Mustafa Suleyman's new AI organization
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-06 | by ( Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Microsoft in March hired Suleyman, head of startup Inflection AI and cofounder of AI pioneer Deepmind, to be CEO of a newly formed "Microsoft AI" group. Here are top players at Microsoft AI:AdvertisementKarén Simonyan, CVP and chief scientistKarén Simonyan Inflection AI Inflection AISimonyan is one of three Inflection co-founders. Kya Sainsbury-Carter, CVP Microsoft AdvertisingSainsbury-Carter is an 18-year veteran of Microsoft. Qi Zhang, CVP Microsoft AI APRDZhang is based in Beijing and has been at Microsoft for 22 years. Chris Daly, VP strategy and business operationsDaly joined Microsoft AI in May after spending about nine years in investment banking at Robey Warshaw.

Persons: —, Mustafa Suleyman, Suleyman, Karén Simonyan, Karén, Simonyan, Satya Nadella, Rob Cromwell, Cromwell, Gabor Hirschler, Hirschler, Mikhail Parakhin, Jordi Ribas, Bing, Rukmini Iyer, Iyer, Rajesh Sundaram, Sundaram, Ali Akgun, Panos Panay, Sainsbury, Carter, Qi Zhang, Zhang, Mike Davidson, Davidson, Michael Bhaskar, Bhaskar, DeepMind, Chris Daly, Daly, Robey Warshaw Organizations: Service, Microsoft, Business, Bing, Enterprise, Microsoft Edge, Carter, Microsoft Advertising, Pacific Research, Development, Twitter, NBCNews.com, Walt Disney Internet, Microsoft AI Locations: Copilot, Beijing, Asia, Pacific, London

☆ Microsoft introduces Copilot AI chatbot for finance workers in Excel and Outlook
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-29 | by ( Jordan Novet | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Microsoft on Thursday announced that it will release a Copilot chatbot that can perform key tasks for people working in finance. The software company will first offer the tool in public preview. The Copilot for finance will initially run a variance analysis, reconcile data in Excel and speed up the collections process in Outlook. Additional features will come to the finance Copilot later this year, Lamanna said. The Japanese advertising agency Dentsu will use the Copilot for finance tasks, Lamanna said.

Persons: Charles Lamanna, Lamanna, it's, Cory Hrncirik, Hrncirik Organizations: Microsoft, CNBC, Wednesday, SAP, Microsoft Dynamics Locations: San Francisco

☆ Microsoft CVP discusses AI and partnership with FWD group
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-27 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailAI offers 'powerful tools' for banking, financial services and insurance industry: Microsoft CVPBill Borden, corporate vice president of worldwide financial services at Microsoft, explains its partnership with Hong Kong insurance company FWD Group and how artificial intelligence can be used in the industry.

Persons: Bill Borden Organizations: Microsoft, Group Locations: Hong Kong

☆ Leaked email shows Microsoft's VP in charge of data center energy is leaving a month after his promotion, joining an executive exodus
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-29 | by ( Eugene Kim | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Microsoft's VP of Energy Brian Janous is leaving. Brian Janous, Microsoft's VP in charge of data center energy strategy, is leaving just a month after being promoted to his current position, Insider has learned. Janous spent more than 11 years at Microsoft, primarily overseeing the company's cloud infrastructure energy and sustainability efforts. He was the first employee on Microsoft's energy team and was promoted to VP of Energy in June 2023, according to his Linkedin page. Janous is the latest executive to leave Microsoft's broader Cloud Operations and Innovations team, which manages the company's all-important cloud infrastructure.

Persons: Energy Brian Janous, Janous, Brian Janous, Microsoft's, Aditya Dalmia, Brian, Noelle Walsh, Scott Guthrie, Jennifer Weitzel, Osvaldo Morales, Michael Czamara, Dan Madrigal, Jeffrey Cox, Eugene Kim Organizations: Energy, Microsoft, Microsoft's CVP, Cloud Infrastructure, Planning, Industry, Operations, Innovations, Cloud Infrastructure Lease, Data, GM, Tejas Sukhadia, Innovation Locations: Microsoft's

☆ Here are Friday's biggest analyst calls: Apple, Nvidia, First Republic, Whirlpool, Meta, FedEx & more
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-17 | by ( Michael Bloom | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +6 min

Here are Friday's biggest calls on Wall Street: JPMorgan upgrades Chubb to overweight from neutral JPMorgan said the insurance company is defensive. CFRA upgrade Whirlpool to buy from hold CFRA said in its upgrade of the stock that shares are attractive. Citi initiates Bumble as buy Citi said the dating app continues to take market share. Citi reiterates Nvidia as buy Citi said it's bullish on Nvidia's adoption of AI. Citi reiterates Meta as buy Citi said it likes Meta's improved operating leverage. "

☆ Inside Microsoft's plan to use the new OpenAI-powered Bing to steal share from Google and net billions of dollars in ad revenue
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Microsoft has begun to showcase ad formats within the OpenAI-powered new Bing search engine. A slide from a Microsoft Advertising roadshow event held in Amsterdam in March. Dennis WesterbeekAdvertisers can't currently buy ads specifically on the new Bing chatbot; their current Bing ad campaigns will extend to the chatbot automatically, agency sources said. Dennis Westerbeek, a senior digital advertising marketer at digital ad agency Adwise, was excited when he saw the new search ads. Westerbeek, who attended a Microsoft Advertising roadshow in Amsterdam, said he was also impressed that the new Bing had reached 100 million daily active users.

☆ Microsoft just laid out the $2 billion reason why it's going all in on ChatGPT
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-08 | by ( Lara O'Reilly | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Microsoft said it can add $2 billion in revenue for every 1 percentage point of search share it gains. Microsoft's ad business already grew to $18 billion in the last 12 months. And search advertising is such a lucrative section of the roughly $500 billion digital ad market that it almost doesn't matter if Microsoft barely dents Google's dominance. Even growing its share of search users by a couple of percentage points could grow its revenue by billions of dollars. "The moneymaker for search advertisers is short-tail, transactional terms," Goodwin said.

☆ Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi: If customers want a particular chip, we will support them
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-12 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: 1 min

Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailMicrosoft's Yusuf Mehdi: If customers want a particular chip, we will support themMicrosoft CVP Yusuf Mehdi joins 'TechCheck' to discuss Microsoft's collaboration with Intel, the use of cloud and advanced AI, and the offering of chip choices for customers.

☆ Leaked Microsoft documents show where and how the tech titan's new moonshot team is placing its bets, from quantum computing to government cloud services
▼ + stars: | 2022-09-22 | by ( Ashley Stewart | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

The team formed to manage Microsoft's biggest moonshots just released its first growth strategy, according to internal documents viewed by Insider. Microsoft expects the total addressable market through the company's 2025 fiscal year for Microsoft Federal to reach $105 billion, and $149 billion for the Microsoft Communications unit. Azure Quantum, led by CVP Zulfi Alam: "Azure Quantum team is engineering the quantum machine to solve for a better future." Azure for Operators, led by CVP Martin Lund "is accelerating the Cloud transformation of mission critical communication networks for Core and Edge services." Mission Engineering, led by Zach Kramer: "Mission engineering is delivering the innovation and technology that creates the ecosystem that transform mission."

☆ Atragerea noilor clienţi – Winning new customers (expert din Germania, training in limba engleză)
▼ + stars: | 2021-04-16 | by ( Alte Articole | ) www.civic.md time to read: +2 min

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Persons: Hans Jürgen Reichel, Hans Jurgen Reichel Locations: CVP, Germania

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