I am stephanie ruhle. Friday is here. Not just a bloomberg, everywhere. I hope you are paying attention , not the next two hours your christmas shopping. We will guide you through how and where to get the best stuff. The top business stories of the morning. U. S. Stocks may be taking a timeout. They have been going back and forth between red and green for the first half hour of the trading session after an extraordinary trading session that added more than 4 to the s p. , withp is up slightly numbers like that, it basically looks unchanged. It is a slight positive. Stocks in europe have turned down after being up earlier in the day. And blackberry comes up short in the struggling comes up short. The struggling smartphone maker posts revenue that fell well short of estimates, generated positive flow earlier than promised, but shares are down 9 . We will speak with blackberrys ceo john shannon at 11 30 a. M. Eastern john chen at 11 30 a. M. Eastern. This guy cannot get out of the headlin
Their tune. Ebay and paypal are separating with paypal to become an independent company next year. By a had faced pressure from carl icahn and others who urged them to split their marketplaces and payment business. With this move, donahoe will leave once it is complete. American express executive dan shulman is c. E. O. Designate of the new palpal company. Is it a good idea . I have been asking various members of the paypal mafia that question. These are the paypal founders who sold the company to ebay in 2002. Here are some of their opinions. There are still a lot of synergies between ebay and paypal. No matter what happens, whether they spin it out or keep it in, there has to be a Firm Commercial agreement. I think that is a priority. Will paypal grow faster if it were not within ebay . Maybe, maybe not. Would it be valued differently by the market or have a better multiple all that stuff . I dont really care. If it spun out and had its own stock, you could motivate the Management Te
Well as drivers. For those of you who are not familiar with how lyft works. Please forgive me if you are already familiar with lyft. Can you talk a little slower . Certainly. Lift is a smartphone and people log in with their facebook account with their email address. To request a ride they tap a single button. The driver accepts the ride within seconds and arrives within minutes. The photo is displayed as well as with how many minutes it will take them to an arrive. Passengers are called prior to their arrival to communicate any needs they have. All payment happens by credit card to the apps so no cash is exchanged. Who are lyft drivers . Among the safety Transportation Services. Drivers are people like you and me. The reason for that is that lyft under utilize transportation capacity, there are empty seats with cars on the road. In fact 80 percent of cars on the road are empty. You have probably seen that driving around town or over the bay bridge wefrm not making good use of the seat
Vehicle inspections, as i mentioned rides that are fulfilled on our platform are provided through our Standard Vehicle supply. Those are our typical lyft vehicles which to my knowledge dont require any special equipment. They are not vehicles equipped with a ramp or lift, they are for meeting the same mechanical requirement and go through that same inspection process that has been required by us and the puc which complies with the general population. There is not special training with respect to the provision of rides to individuals with disabilities and i certainly would be open to conversation about any content that you would recommend be included for those individuals who will be receiving rides on the lyft platform. For example i mentioned that these individuals will receive a text message inviting them to communicate with the driver to communicate their access needs. Those individuals that can enter a Standard Vehicle, if its your opinion that there are specific types of training
The math makes sense, you would say 50 watts but unfortunately the program is only able to claim and incentive ieds that smaller amount because that is the amount thats above the states title 24 code base line. This is something that weve been able to break through with the barren program and something we hope to do with other programs. The bay run has given us this interesting proof of concept. The success has been remarkable. In 18 months of bay run we have served 9500 residential units. Its built on our expertise with programs. Bay run is flexible, comp prehence and accessible. Weve expanded on this longterm model of energy watch but we want to do more for all our customers moving forward. We think that cca gives us the opportunity to do that. We want to more completely account for and incentivize project savings. We know that we might not start right away with the ccas Energy Efficiency program, but we cant help but think about what the next generation of Energy Efficiency program