Today. Thank god youre here. We have some news comcast is reporting and when you report on a company like comcast, there are many Different Things that people watch. Not necessarily the bottom line number but let me give that to you any way. Earnings per share, 52 cents that was up almost 27 year over year it was 3 cents ahead of expectations consolidated revenue grew 10 . 9. 8 to 21 21. 2 billion. That is above expectations of 20. 855 consolidateded revenue was one of the things that people might look at, but maybe more so is ebita growth Strong Revenue and ebita growth increasing by 10 . First half ebita growth the best in six years a lot of this, sorkin you see the main cylinder . Squawk box. Part of it. Film revenue up crazy Nbc Universal, outstanding quarter according to the company, grew ebita by 20 Comcast Cable delivered what the company is calling a great quarter is a strong balance between financial growth and solid subscriber metrics you watched this over the years. What do
My first guest had two Long Distance love affairs. The one with a girl who loved 10 hours away. He created a video chat platform that brought him closer to his girlfriend. The other, getting into the United States was more difficult. He tried not once or twice, to get a visa. When he finally got it, he created zoom, now worth a billion dollars, he has a reputation as a hard charger. He sends employee s emails in n the middle of the night. And he expects people to be at work friday afternoon. Lets start with the friday afternoon thing, what is that . Our philosophy, we want our customers to really enjoy using our solution. And we want to make sure our employees work very hard. Quite often friday afternoon our customers are using our service. We want to make sure our team is ready. Whenever they have issues, we can make sure they can get help. That never happens, friday 6 00 p. M. , 7 00 p. M. , a lot of us are there. I wonder how that affects your ability to recruit and retain talent in
Panel this morning consisting of two distinguished journalists who have been in kenya following the campaign and the election in kenya. I will introduce them in just a minute. My name is mark, i am a Senior Advisor for africa here at csis. Some years ago i was ambassador in my nairobi and i had the opportunity to spend several years there prior to this years election. I want to start off with a few remarks and then turn to our gas. As all of you know, this week, some 1 15 million kenyans went to the polls to elect members of parliament, to elect 49 counties in this was a remarkable event, if only because of the thousands of Campaign Appearances by different candidates because of the passionate participation being such a large part of the electorate and also because of the technological sophistication of this process including the speedy electronic tallying of votes on election day. As you all know, incumbent president one the presidency by a margin of victory that was larger than predi
Welcome to our kenyan election review. We did a kenyan election preview. I am not sure many of our forecasts or predictions came to pass which is maybe a good thing. I will introduce, very happy that we have a panel this morning consisting of two distinguished journalists who have been in kenya following the campaign in kenya and i will introduce them in just a moment. My name is mark bellamy, Senior Advisor for africa at csi us, ambassador in nairobi, i had the good fortune to spend several weeks in nairobi prior to this year at the election. I want to start with a few opening remarks to frame this mornings discussion and turn to our guests. As all of you in this room know, last week 15 million canyons went to the polls to elect a president , to elect members of parliament, to elect governors to 49 counties and a number of other officeholders. By any standard and certainly by african standards this was a remarkable event. If only because of the thousands of Campaign Appearances by dif
Zinke. Good afternoon, everyone. To get started this afternoon, i just will give lay of the land herer i i will proceed with my Opening Statement and then senator cantwell with hers. After senator cantwells remarks we will hear from our colleague, the montana senators, senator dains and senator tester. Senator danes is on the complete here and senator tester, good to have you here as well. They will introduce our distinguished witness and other member of the montana delegation, representsive ryan zi zingk zinke. I will swear in the witness and ask him three questions we address to all nominees at confirmation hearings. So thats how we will proceed this afternoon. I think its important for us all to recognize we also have a vote that is scheduled about 4 15. So that will cause a little bit of an interruption but we do want to try to move as expeditiously through this hearing as we can. Before i proceed, id like to recognize an individual who is wellknown to this committee room. Thats th