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Welcome to squawk alley. The founder of aol ventures is with us. John, its good to have you back. Jon fortt is out today but Kayla Tausche is here. The dow is down about triple digits. A few select companies are driving whatever gains we have in the nasdaq composite this year. Six companies, amazon, google, apple and gillian account for more than half of the 64 billion in value added to the nasdaq composite in 2015. The concentrated gain in a few stocks is boosting concerns of dwindling leadership, a market top, some say. The nasdaq itself is up about 7 so far this year. And i think if you tak...

Good morning it is 8 00 a. M. At uber headquarters in San Francisco, 11 00 a. M. On wall street, and squawk alley is live. Good tuesday, welcome to squawk alley. Joining us this morning is walter isaacson. On cnbc newsline kara swisher, good morning to everyone. Quite a market rally we have on our hands here. We have attentions of actual armt and gender bias leading a team to lead the probe. Dierdre has more on that. Eric holder will lead the investigation joined by uber board member arianna huffington, and also leann hornsey. These are quick first steps, but it will be important to see what c...

Higher welcome to squawk alley. Im carl quintanilla. Jon fortt and Kayla Tausche at post 9. Mike santoli is here along with confides president and cofounder john broad. Good morning to all of you. Our top story is apple moving higher again today, the top gainer on the dow. Stocks the number one winner on the dow this week, up 6 . Its been a big few days for tim cook and company, rolling out the latest ios yesterday. Sprint and tmobile reporting historic preorders for the iphone which hits store shelves on friday. Cook was on Good Morning America this morning talking about his vision for the fu...

Japan was closed. Oil coming off the best week since august. Bond markets are closed. This morning its the largest tech deal in history. Dell agreeing to buy emc for 67 billion. You will hear what ceos of both companies told cnbc. We will hear where things stand now with inbev and san miller. And twitter planning companywide layoffs. A big move from newly installed ceo, jack dorsey. Dell agrees to acquire emc in a cash and stock deal valued at 67 billion. Transaction includes a special stock that tracks the performance of emcs stake in vmware. Michael dell will lead the combined company. He ta...

Lately is because the market changed its tune, gone are the days when you beat the bottom line it was enough to send your stock higher. Gone are the days when you beat the top line, gone are bit pitting the bottom line and raising guidance is enough to raise the share price. Now you need to best the earning numbers and guide them dramatically higher vndz a stock thats got low expectations or heavily shorted. Thats right, the gauntlet is demanding because the economy is slowed and getting slower according to much of the recent data. So lets go over whats worked this year. All right . Whats embl...