Policy advocates, industry stakeholders and government officials testify in front of Senate Commerce subcommittee about the future of commercial spectrum for broadband in telecommunications. This hearing is just over 2 and half hours. [inaudible conversations] the hearing on subcommittee and munication scum media and broadband will now come to order. Today the subcommittee is convening a hearing on the future of spectrum. I want to thank Ranking Member thune and roger wicker for working to get this scheduled and to be here for this important hearing and also to chair cantwell for what she has done in this space, her staff and the staff of the full committee. The importance of this conversation, and coming together spectrum policy could not be more immediate with an upcoming deadline that must be met. Spectrum is a limited Natural Resource and the challenges are many. We have spectrum challenges across the industry, government, technology, policy, and politics. When we dont find solutio
New Board Members, and one of them is the yahoo co founder. Another is the chairman and director of the Charles Schwab corporation. Shareholders will be voting on the nominees at the companys annual meeting june 25. We will have more on this later this hour. First, the Top Technology headlines ibm has posted an eighth straight quarter of declining sales. Sales fell almost four percent in the First Quarter while profit tumbled 21 . The hardware and consulting spots, butits were cloud revenue was up more than 63 . New York Attorney general Eric Snyderman has sent subpoenas to six highfrequency trading firms. He is seeking information on their trading strategies and the arrangements firms have with the exchanges. He says he is concerned some trading platforms may Sell Services that are giving high for traders an edge in the market. Plans to on rehabilitate its business, instead the once prominent Bitcoin Exchange will ask a Japanese Court to liquidate its assets, saying that a rehab plan
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Another is the chairman and director of the Charles Schwab corporation. Shareholders will be voting on the nominees at the companys annual meeting june 25. We will have more on this later this hour. First, the Top Technology headlines ibm has posted an eighth straight quarter of declining sales. Sales fell almost 4 in the First Quarter while profit tumbled 21 . The hardware and Consulting Services units were weak spots, but cloud revenue was up more than 63 . New York Attorney general Eric Snyderman has sent subpoenas to six highfrequency trading firms. He is seeking information on their trading strategies and the arrangements firms have with the exchanges. He says he is concerned some trading platforms may Sell Services that are giving High Frequency traders an edge in the market. Giving up on plans to rehabilitate its business, instead the once prominent Bitcoin Exchange will ask a Japanese Court to liquidate its assets, saying that a rehab plan was too complex. Mt. Gox filed for ban
Supervisors City Operations and Neighborhood Services committee. We have been joined by supervisor yee, eric mar is in route. We also have been joined by supervisor scott weiner, we want to thank the clerk of the committee derek evans and we want to thank the following members of the stgtv staff who are covering the meeting today. Jessy larson and melokian and we also want to welcome the member of the public that are here and who are watching. Make sure to silence all cell phones and device and complete the speaker cards and copies of any documents that are included to part of the file should be submitted to the clerk. Items today will appear on the february 29th agenda unless others stated. Thank you and if you could call item number two, please . Item number two is a hearing, calling on city agencies including the Police Department and District Attorneys Office to report about the increases in robberis on city streets and public transit. This is an item that has been introduced by su