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Good friday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. I am Carl Quintanilla with Morgan Brennan and jon fortt they addressed the policy on political ads, the Company Remains under pressure about the election Elizabeth Warren says heres the thing, trump isnt just posting a lion his own page for his own followers, facebook is accepting millions of dollars from trump to run political ads, including ones with misinformation and outright lies. Joining us to breakdown the speech, response and more at post nine, early facebook investor, roger mcnamee, author of zucked. What were you most surprised by, rocker that he wanted to come out in public and say all of that to me, the tin ear is so extreme that if it hadnt been for all the other nonsense coming out of washington, it wo ....
Countrys biggest bank is taking issue with and where he sees the economy going on. And later, personal finance expert suzeor orman is here. Im melissa lee, coming to you live from studio b at the nasdaq. On the desk tonight and we start off with a full slate of Earnings Reports. Microsoft, alphabet, visa, snap, all on the move after their latest results. We have full team coverage. We start off with steve kovach, who has all the details from microsofts quarter. The stock is higher right now, steve. The Conference Call is in about a half hour. Microsoft shares are up. The solid beats on the top and bottom lines, but heres whats more important. Reversing some trends that weve seen. Azure cloud growth up 29 versus the 26 gross the street was looking for. Thats exactly what investors wanted to see, after several quarters of declining growth. Now, what to listen for in the earni ....
His story hit a nerve around the world. The palo alto teen rejected by 16 colleges, but was hired by google. How did he do it . On tuesday, we first introduced you to 18 year old stanley xiong, a Gunn High School graduate who had a 4. 42 gpa near perfect sat score and built his own ea document signing startup this past spring. As College Admissions decisions came down, it was rejection after rejection. Some of them were certainly expected. And, you know, stanford, mit, you know, its it is what it is, right . But yeah, for some of them, like cal poly, some of the state schools, i really thought, you know, i had a good chance and it turns out, however good of a chance i had, i didnt get in. But shortly after the lowest point in his life came the ultimate high. Stanley got hired by google as a Level Four Software ....
And also at one market in san francisco, mike isaac. Good morning to all of you. We start of course with that apple story. U. S treasury secretary jack lew with some stuff tough talk about the 14. 5 billion dollar ruling that came yesterday. The decision creates an environment of uncertainty. Our concern with European Commission action is that it is using a state aid theory to make tax law and it is doing it in a way thats retroactive and overrides National Tax Law authority in our view and we think that it undermines the environment in europe. For International Business because it creates uncertainty. It undermines the cooperation between paul ryan the House Speaker called it awful. Are you surprised to see such tough talk about a situation determined ....
Regulation. Whatever happened to that . Why didnt that get presented to the commissioners . Guest i think youre referring to a couple months ago there was discussion of a hybrid proposal, but that included title ii. And, in fact, there were several different proposals, all of which included title ii. So the chairman really had been considering title ii as part of a Net Neutrality solution. Now id say for about four or five months now. Host well, our guest reporter Gautham Nagesh, had a front page story this week in the wall street journal on the process guest oh yes, i saw it. Host what i wanted to ask was some of the Companies Involved with the white house according to mr. Nagesh are pretty successful companies. Why do they need further protection, as it were . Net neutrality protection, when theyve been successful ....