And jon fortt making his way back from out west. You know why we cued the billy joel at the top, shares of twitter had their dose of honesty. Extending their losses, revenue up 61 in the quarter. Executives voiced concerns about user growth. Here is jack dorsey the interim ceo on last nights Conference Call. Chronic initiatives we mentioned in previous earnings calls like instant timelines and log dot experiences have not yet had meaningful impact on growing our audience or participation. This sun acceptable and were not happy about it. Joining us this morning from one market in san francisco, colin sebastian. Good morning. Good morning. People are noting the clash between last nights call and the media rounds they did in the prior quarter where they were enthusiastic about the game plan and about the product. Why the uturn . On one hand twitter is, theres a tale of to sides of twitter. On one hand, adam bains team, on the revenue site of the business is performing extremely well. Twit
Former fed chair Alan Greenspan will join us. A new program were monitoring. That call and any news out of the Conference Call as he examines a tesla. Right now. Relatedly, we do have solar city. Did he help build those cars . Work on the Assembly Line . There are teslas everywhere in norway. One of the biggest usages hydropowered, as well. Its so interesting. So anyway we have earnings coming up here, as well. Earnings getting crushed after weak guidance on the companys Conference Call last night. Down about 14 right now. Investors are looking to see whether facebook can deliver now after the bell. Its up about 1 today. Weve got a top tech Portfolio Manager who says theres only one number in facebook earnings that matter. Hell tell us where it is coming up. But lets get to fed headquarters in washington where Steve Liesman is standing by with more on todays announcement. Steve . Hey, bill thanks. The fed leaving Interest Rates unchanged in july as expected. But the question is whether
Welcome to our conversation with titled security versus security. We welcome Monika Bickert of producte head policy and counterterrorism at facebook. We are here to do a review of a new movie because no news has broken since then, in m onikas orbit. We met at the aspen security um, and my main focus was why no one ever puts likes or comments up when i post pictures. Will address some of the news of the day, but it want to do that at the end, because i want to make sure we spend a lot of time at the beginning talking about the great and incredible ika and facebook are doing in the counterterrorism space, which is the goal of this country goal of this company. The frame we wanted to lay out here is, i know many of you have likely been to panels in which it is titled, security versus liberty. Security versus privacy. And my view, shared by many others, sometimes that is in it is an inappropriate lenso view this debate. And i would suggest it is inappropriate for two reasons. One, it impli
And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer, even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . David when you joined google, google was a very small company. Did you, in your wildest dreams, ever imagine it would become the second most valuable company in the entire world . I dont think any of us did. I certainly did not. When i met larry and sergey, they just seemed incredibly intelligent. We had this huge argument over something technical, and i hadnt had that good of an argument in a long time, and i thought, ive got to work with these people. I wanted to join a company that was gonna stay in one building. Today, of course, we are many buildings. So you were the ceo of novell, at the time that you were getting ready to go to google. What propelled you to pick google as the company you wanted to go to . Because you had many opportunities. Well,
Administrations tax cut dreams a reality. Lets get straight to ylan mui in d. C. With the latest. Reporter melissa, two big hurdles for tax reform are now out of the way the house passed its budget for 2018 just about an hour ago the Senate Passed its version out of committee. This is important, because once they reach a final agreement on the budget, republicans will unlock the special rules that allow them to get tax reform done without any help from democrats. House Speaker Paul Ryan trying to keep that momentum going this afternoon with a visit to a maryland factory he said tax reform is critical to helping american businesses build more, grow more, and do more get the rates down so were on par with the rest of the world. And encourage businesses to invest in their businesses in america. Reporter ryan was referring there to the move toward full expensing in a tax framework agreed to by the white house and republican leadership. That measure is highly controversial and very expensiv