Facebook said to offer hundreds of millions of dollars to allow users to pay for play. Betty welcome to daybreak asia , i am betty liu at bloombergs Global Headquarters in new york. Yvonne i am yvonne man out of seoul this wednesday morning. Appear in south korea, we are watching what is happening about 30 something miles away from seoul. Our neighbors to the north, so to speak. For the markets, it has been a perfect storm. For not only what is happening in pyongyang, but the hurricane heading to the u. S. Amid debt concerns. Betty we are putting out fires left and right. That was reflected in the markets today. Lets pull up the board. We opened up after the long Labor Day Weekend and went straight down. You can see the dow closing off 234 points. The nasdaq taking it on the chin, as well as the s p. Selling across the board. Asia, whiching into had been reacting the past several sessions this week to the north korean headlines. Lets bring up new zealand, which is just opening up, down
Facebooks russian revelation. The social media giant said they found political ad spending linked to fake accounts from russia in the runup to the president ial election. But first, dell completed the biggest Tech Acquisition in history of emc. The Historic Deal created the new Dell Technology. Dell, vmware, and secure works. Dell faced several major legal hurdles along with emc stockholder skepticism. I sat down with michael dell and asked him for the oneyear report card. Michael i am very pleased with how its going. Reaction has been strongly positive, our teams are very engaged. Our customer nps scores have continued to improve. Our Employee Engagement scores our record high levels of , synergies are coming to your they are coming bigger and faster than we thought. We are paying down debt and aggressive pace. A lot of things that could go wrong did go wrong. The big surprise is we have not had a lot of surprises. Is aee the success, vmware very important part that the family is enjo
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Confirmed the first case of ebola has appeared in the united states. The patient is in the dallas, texas, area. Confirming just moments ago that the man traveled to liberia in west after but was considered healthy when he returned to the u. S. More than a week ago. He returned on the 19th of the september, and arrived on the 20th of september. Had no symptoms when departing liberia or entering this country, but four or five days later around the 24th of september began to deaf symptoms. I have no doubt that we will control this case so it does not spread widely in this country. This case of ebola will be isolated and treated and wont have lasting effects anywhere in the u. S. He does appear confident. In a has been his m. O. Over the past few months as he has come out and talked regularly to the country in the world about ebola. But you know what, after listening to that, i think there are a lot of questions. A significant amount of number one, we did hear that this patient did not com