Slavery had been abolished, two years after the emancipation proclamation. Meantime, President Trump ready for a planned rally saturday in oklahoma, where 100,000 protesters are scheduled to gather in oklahoma. Protesterstipolice ahead of the president is first rally in months. Meantime, big tech in the spotlight amid scrutiny at home and abroad and charges with the eu. Joining us now is the leader of u. S. Antitrust efforts against microsoft back in the day. Gary, thanks for joining us. Lets start without strong you believe the eu case against amazon is. Gary pretty strong, based on everything we read. The eu is going to charge with amazon with misusing data it gets from merchants on its site. Think, is going to claim amazon uses that data to help amazon make copycat products that compete against the very merchants they are supposed to be supporting. The press has done great analytical reporting, and it appears that exactly the cake that is exactly the case, based on interviews with f
Shift toward ecommerce. I think for investors, for business in general thats really the question of this moment right now for those businesses that have had this shift to online and have been able to capitalize that, were going to have skzinga on later d theyve done well in engagement because of that shift, how much of that are they going to be able to retain and continue for the rest of the year how much can platforms like apples ios and app store, were getting wwdc coming up in a few weeks, what changes can they and developers make to retain more of that benefit and maybe see a continuing shift in behavior thats unclear, but a lot hangs on that, morgan. Thats so right, jon, and that shift online i think is everything and a big part of that is ecommerce its one of the reasons im keeping a close eye on the u. S. Postal service right now, which is set to report its Quarterly Earnings tomorrow. Last night the usps announcing its finally getting a new postmaster general, louis dejoy, had
In infections or deaths could mean the tokyo economy could go in reverse. There is cautious optimism in europe. Spain and italy reported a decline in infection rates as people are told to stayathome over the easter break. Haidi we are getting breaking news out of south korea. The latest reading of the impact of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic having on this explosive economy. Of threetting a plunge point 8 when it comes to Industrial Production. That is actually better than the survey. We were expecting a contraction to the tune of four point 5 but 3. 8 percent contraction, worse than a contraction we saw in the month of january. When it comes to the year on year number, 11. 4 gained. A lot better than the 3. 4 that was surveyed and bouncing back well and truly from a contraction of 2. 4 percent. Seasonality issues will also be at play but we are expecting to it continued disruption when comes to supply chains, manufacturing, and overall industrial productivity and activity in korea a
Cspan is brought to you by your local cable and satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Next a Congressional Panel looks at Online Platforms and impact on entrepreneurship in the u. S. Well hear from google, apple, facebook and amazon officials who talk about ecommerce. This portion of the house judiciary hearing is is an hour and 50 minutes. Good afternoon. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to the second of our series of hearings investigating competition in the digital markets. This one on innovation and entrepreneurship. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. 30 years ago the First Software for the worldwide web was released into the Public Domain to create a Global Communications network. Within a few years, search and browsing services were built onto the software to give people tools to communicate, share and explore information throu
Employees and if you break a company like that up, if you can manage it do it, theres going to be unattended consequences. Tonight at 8 30 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. Next on cspan3, a house judiciary subcommittee on whether Big Tech Companies like google, apple, facebook and amazon engage in anticompetitive practices that hurt smaller online companies. Rhode island congressman David Cicilline chaired the hearing. Good afternoon. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to the second of our series of hearings investigating competition in the digital markets. This one on innovation and entrepreneurship. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. 30 years ago the First Software for the worldwide web was released into the Public Domain to create a Global Communications network. Within a few years, search and browsing services were built onto the software to give people tools to c