We will go straight into the second panel. Somewould ask monica Background Information about the Senate Intelligence investigation into russian intelligence. Some of that work has been quite insightful for us and lead to us contacting facebook and asking for similar insight to be done as to when he as to whether there was any russian activity in the u. K. I want to ask about the information that facebook has provided. Is it correct to say that all the unit all the evidence so far and the number of people that were exposed to content creation disputed by the Internet Research agency in st. Petersburg, all of that announced so far comes from the analysis facebook did identifying payments made in ruples related to advertising around that content. Monica the information we gave to the committee in testimony is the best source of information for the details about that. Didhat testimony, colin speak to how facebook conducted that investigation. Payment in rubles was one of the signals. That
Contains it is something we understand why people are concerned about it. Its one of the reasons why the Electoral Commission approached us in october of last or and said we would like you to assess about whether or not there was indeed misinformation coming from another country. And we were keen to cooperate on that. We reported some findings from an initial investigation to chair the committee. I think its fair to say we havent done enough work having reflected on that. Is we wont be able to tell you until that work is completed. We are committed to telling the committee the outcome of those results. The one thing i would say is unlike the u. S. Election, we intelligence any reports that suggests there were downright russian interference using facebook involved in the brexit referendum. Different where there is an Intelligence Report demonstrating. Obviously the referendum was about the membership of the European Union Going Forward. Countries within the eu, not the u. K. , had more
We are live from bloombergs European Headquarters in london. Coming up this hour, autos. Peugeots first half earnings surge. We are speaking to the cfo live from paris in about 10 minutes time. Make sure you stay tuned for that. First up, barclays german john mack farland says hes going to step up the pace of cuts to the british lender. The Bank Reported secondquarter profits of 1. 8 5 billion pounds. That matched analyst estimates. Profits at the Investment Bank jumped 35 . For more, we are joined by our london finance reporter, julie of her lane. Julia these results sound like mcfarlane is ready to take the bank by the scruff of the neck. Julia he is going to run down the noncore by 2017 to bring down riskweighted assets. I think he is there to accelerate the whole process that jenkins started. You had equities down 2 and Investment Banking fees down 11 . It has been offset by the macro performance. Manus in terms of these job cuts, where do we think they are going to come from . Wil
Feet last night to welcome adam jones with a standing ovation. This is something different, and i just want to get in the box and get on with the gamie. And saved at sea. A survivor, 32 hours in scott lands. Good morning. Welcome to cbs news headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. Today James Comey Testifies on capitol hill before the committee that oversees the fbi. This is into the alleged collusion between the campaign and russia. Late last night they tweeted, comey was the best thing and it was used as a just fi kay for mr. Trumps tweet followed comments by Hillary Clinton who said it was the 11th hour interference by comey and Russian Hackers that cost her the election. I was on the way to winning until the combination of jim comeys letter on october 28th and russia wikileaks raised doubts in the minds of people who were to find a vote for me and got scared off. Clinton also took on some of the blame for her loss. Tomorrow comey testifies before clo
The chinese company, alibaba. They sold 50 of that stake in 2012. Yahoo still owns a part of alibaba, said to be valued at 24 billion. There was an idea of a spin off, but the board decided a reverse of the spinoff, operating businesses by committees selected by the board. She has announced a plan to return the Iconic Company to greatness and that is what we will talk about. I am pleased to have her. Welcome. Marissa thank you for having me. Charlie good to have you here. Tell me how you see see yahoo today and what you want to do to return this Iconic Company to greatness . What is the plan . Marissa yahoo was the original internet icon and a huge part of peoples daily lives, more than half of the viewers will view a yahoo product sometime today. And it is an amazing opportunity to say, how can we take something that was such a huge part of peoples lives, even today, and transition as we see a shift in technology. With mobile, with video, wearables, so many great opportunities in term