Headline this morning. Breaking news in the investigation of the german wings crash. The french prosecutor speaking right now saying the descent of that airplane could only have been voluntary. The planes commander was locked out of the cockpit. He can be heard trying to break down the door to get back in. The Prosecutor Says the copilot was breathing right up to the point of impact. Investigators do not know why the copilot did not respond. Neither pilot has been identified by name. The airbus almost this new graded on impact. The flight data recorder was damaged. The airbus almost decent integrated on disintegrated on impact. Bombing shiite military installations the rebels control major cities and forced him as president to flee. Forced yemens president to flee. The attacks are infuriating iran. Military action from outside yemen against territorial integrity and against the many people will have no result but bloodshed and slaughter of the people. As we have seen, a lot of people w
Salesforce raising its forecast. They have seen the biggest firstquarter they have had. This underscores their attractiveness as a takeover target. Cory johnson is in san francisco. It looks like a strong report. We heard no comment on the deals. But they are 1000 focused on customer satisfaction. Cory thats a lot of percents. Thats like a hundred percent focused 10 times in a row. Here is the big take away. If you want to compare it to what the analysts expected, its better than that. It typically is. The reaction in post market trading is muted. Last quarter, the stock jumped 12 . The next day its down 5 . Right now it is up 2 . We will see how it shakes out in trading. What we saw is while better than , expected, it has dramatically slower growth. Yes, its the biggest firstquarter they have had, but its only 23 bigger than one year ago. Compare that to one year ago. 37 a year ago. So to go from 37 to 23 sales growth that is a lot slower. It is different Growth Potential than what we
We begin with breaking. Salesforce raising its forecast. The biggest firstquarter they have had. This underscores their attractiveness as a takeover target. Cory johnson is in san francisco. We heard no comment on the deals. They are 1000 focused on customer satisfaction. Corey thats a lot of percents. Here is the big take away. If you want to compare it to what the analysts expected its better than that. The reaction and market trading is muted. Last quarter, the stock jumped 12 . The next day its down 5 . We will see how it shakes out in trading. While better than expected it has dramatically slower growth. The biggest firstquarter they have had but only 23 bigger than one year ago. Compare that to one year ago. 37 a year ago. They went from 37 to 23 sales growth. That is a lot slower. It is different Growth Potential than what we would have expected a year ago. One of the reasons from that is that they spent less on marketing. The big knock on salesforce is that they spend a lot on
After a wave of consolidation we break down the results from two of the key players. Mark will the drama pay . Itv reports. We see if the numbers are as big a hit with investors as Downton Abbey is with global viewers. Welcome to countdown, i am mark barton. Anna i am an edwards. On a edwards anna edwards. Stay with us for the bloomberg exclusive with megaupload founder. Mark the markets moving in asia and stocks under pressure as the global selloff continues. Weve seen 400 billion over the past three weeks. Lets start off with the stock market. Lets start off with the stock market. Were basically seeing a decline across the regional benchmark. In japan we are down 1 and the yen is a little bit stronger down 7 10 of 1 . One of the stories right now is asia with a very weak retail sales number in the u. S. To some extent, investors started to book those profits in japan. Australia was down because of the banks and the big mining stocks. That is up. 5 . That market hasnt really done anyt
Illegally. Cybersecurity is obvious. And protecting the infrastructure from cyber and terrorist attacks. And the fourth priority was i want to do everything i can to make sure secretary jay johnson, who is an honorable man, i want to make sure he succeeds in the mission of keeping the country safe. Lets go to cybersecurity. We have had a number of hearings on this. I ask witnesses what are the top proorities and thinks we have to get done. The top priority is facilitate the sharing of information. And i am talking about threat signatures, vulnerabilities. We are not talking about the meta data. It is just impossible for businesses to have to really try to comply with a multitude of different jurisdicational requirements for data breaches. It is cruci w it is crucial we set of federal standard. Those are the those are the top two priorities. Those should be Pretty Simple to accomplish but it has not been simple because you have a legitimate interests. People concerned about american pri