Amazon and Alphabet See Sales Surge

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Tech giants Amazon and Google's parent Alphabet have posted a surge in sales over the last three months. The BBC's Dave Lee considers what these results say about the health of the economy. Also on the programme, President of Princeton University in the US, Professor Christopher Eisgruber shares how the establishment is overwhelmingly white and middle-class and the challenges faced by the university in trying to overcome this and ensure the student mix is more diverse. German photographer Frederik Busch talks to Business Matters about how he has spent the past eight years photographing office plants and now hopes to publish a book of his work. Roger Hearing is joined for comment throughout the programme by Saadia Madsbjerg, Managing Director at the Rockefeller Foundation in New York and Shalini Mahtani, co-founder and chair of The Zubin Foundation in Hong Kong. PICTURE CREDIT:LEON NEAL/AFP/Getty Images