Microsoft Building Trust Along With IoT And AI

Last week's big news from Facebook's (FB) F8 conference was Facebook's long-anticipated foray into the online dating game. Alphabet's (GOOG) Google I/O is happening this week in Mountain View, California and featured an impressive demo of its state-of-the-art AI capabilities. Here in Seattle, the "counter-programming" as it were, is the Microsoft Build 2018 Developer Conference. Perhaps as something of a direct response to Facebook's recent high-profile issues with data privacy as well as Google's own troubled past on this topic, Microsoft (MSFT) CEO Satya Nadela in his opening keynote pointedly addressed the issue of civic and ethical responsibility for technology companies. This underscores the message he gave in a recent interview on NBC's Today Show, where he said that'Trust' will push the company ahead of Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and Google.