Quite a decline for gold. We are just about one hour away giants,nings for tech amazon and google. The air is pregnant with expectations. A good way to put it. Google sold the Motorola Mobility unit. Here with us for the hour is atter isaacson, former ceo cnn, managing editor at time but he is also known for his biographies on steve jobs, and many others. He will tell us about the next book he is working on. Were also watching another piece of news we have talked about, Time Warner Cable reporting results. That was not the big news, but the big news is who is after them. It is turning into an epic takeover battle. The ceo Robert Marcus was talking about how he was sending over this takeover bid from charter communications. There are scale benefits associated with consolidating. We acquired insight several years ago and achieved meaningful synergies. You just not like the charter did bid . Company,ervalues our and it is significantly lower than the value we think we can create on our ow
Billion. Both boards have approved the deal but they a face lengthy regulatory scrutiny. If it goes through, however, comcast will have sealed its dominance over the cable industry. It also potentially ends a battle by charter communications, the fourth largest cable operator, to take over t. W. C. I spoke with our senior west coast correspondent, jon erlichman, chief washington correspondent peter cook, as well as Bloomberg News reporter, alex sherman, about the deal and started by asking jon how it all came together. Charter had this great interest in doing this deal with Time Warner Cable. Time warner cable wanted them to pay more money. Charter was talking to comcast about the possibility of comcast acquiring some of the assets of Time Warner Cable and along the lines they decided comcast, its a better move to get bigger than everybody else and have control over marks like new york and los angeles and chicago, philadelphia, the d. C. Area. They truly are the biggest player in the c
Regulatory scrutiny. If it goes through, however, comcast will have sealed its dominance over the cable industry. It also potentially ends a battle by charter communications, the fourth largest cable operator, to take over t. W. C. I spoke with our senior west coast correspondent, jon erlichman, chief washington correspondent peter cook, as well as Bloomberg News reporter, alex sherman, about the deal and started by asking jon how it all came together. Charter had this great interest in doing this deal with Time Warner Cable. Time warner cable wanted them to pay more money. Charter was talking to comcast about the possibility of comcast acquiring some of the assets of Time Warner Cable and along the lines they decided comcast, its a better move to get bigger than everybody else and have control over marks like new york and los angeles and chicago, philadelphia, the d. C. Area. They truly are the biggest player in the cable business in the united states. Right. But is this deal going to
Dominance over the cable industry. It also potentially ends a battle by charter communications, the fourth largest cable operator, to take over t. W. C. I spoke with our senior west coast correspondent, jon erlichman, chief washington correspondent peter cook, as well as Bloomberg News reporter, alex sherman, about the deal and started by asking jon how it all came together. Charter had this great interest in doing this deal with Time Warner Cable. Time warner cable wanted them to pay more money. Charter was talking to comcast about the possibility of comcast acquiring some of the assets of Time Warner Cable and along the lines they decided comcast, its a better move to get bigger than everybody else and have control over markets like new york and los angeles and chicago, philadelphia, the d. C. Area. They truly are the biggest player in the cable business in the united states. Right. But is this deal going to go through, peter . The regulators made it clear with at t and tmobile they
Dominance over the cable industry. It also potentially ends a battle by charter communications, the fourth largest cable operator, to take over t. W. C. I spoke with our senior west coast correspondent, jon erlichman, chief washington correspondent peter cook, as well as Bloomberg News reporter, alex sherman, about the deal and started by asking jon how it all came together. Charter had this great interest in doing this deal with Time Warner Cable. Time warner cable wanted them to pay more money. Charter was talking to comcast about the possibility of comcast acquiring some of the assets of Time Warner Cable and along the lines they decided comcast, its a better move to get bigger than everybody else and have control over marks like new york and los angeles and chicago, philadelphia, the d. C. Area. They truly are the biggest player in the cable business in the united states. Right. But is this deal going to go through, peter . The regulators made it clear with at t and tmobile they wa