It is nice to look at all the people that were like, they tried to stop us, but that was not the whole story. And what i am about is about telling the whole story. So let me take you back to a time before women could vote. 1898 and your name is. Unice randall girls are considered so unimportant in the small town where you are born, but you are not even written into the ledger that lifts the birth. I just want to warn you, there is a little bug that zoom has where it overheats when you are doing a large broadcast. So you will hear a loud fan now and then, nothing is wrong, its just a fan. It will stop and 20 seconds. Everybody knows about it, nobody knows what to do. T is listed as a bug they are like, we are working on it. That does not help me, but im glad they are working on it. Sowhat i want to consider is important is the little town, but she is not written into the birth ledger. She finds out she does not exist when she goes to get married. Imagine her surprise. Up on a farm in ma
Sparking intense criticism of President Donald Trump as the country inches closer to an electition. Morere than 6. 8 million cases he been confirmed since the pandemic began. It showed signs of decline in august, but recently the tide has changed with fresh outbreaks in several states. About 20,000 flags were planted at the foot of the Washington Monument tuesday as a way to honor the victims. Democrat nancy pelosi, the house speaker, and an outspoken critic of trump, spoke at the event. This was preventablele, not l of it, but much of it. And what could be lost in the future is preventable too if we embrace science. The white house defended its antivirus measures as appropriate. Press secretary Kayleigh Mcenany pointed to early estimates which suggested 2 Million People would die. The fact that we have come nowhere near that number is a testament to this president taking immediate action to shutting down travel from china. Trump is still promising to have a vaccine by the end of the y
Welcome to squawk alley for your wednesday morning im Carl Quintanilla with julia bore steen, mike san tolely with us for the hour dow is lagging down 60 jackson hole tomorrow, of course, were watching hurricane laura, the retailers but mike, crm, continues to astound. We thought 20 gain was impressive its now at session highs of 27 today alone on what bloomberg called the best revenue surprise in a decade. Yeah. Its pretty remarkable obviously the results themselves are emboldening people to say that this was as expensive as the stock has always looked undervalued or misvalued or didnt appreciate the durability of what theyre doing on the market share side of things for the longterm. What is interesting, too, if you look at it compared to some of the other software bell weathers over the last couple years, as big as todays move is, its kind of a catchup if you look at how microsoft and adobe in particular their anointing crm into that class inpenetrable areas that seem like theyre goi
The tech giants in the us are dominating the business agenda today. Jeff bezos is stepping down as amazons Chief Executive. The Online Retail giants founder will move to become the compa ny s executive chairman. He will be replaced as ceo by andy jassy, the current boss of amazons Cloud Computing business. And this comes as the firm reported 386 billion in sales in 2020, thats up 38 on the year before. Their profits almost doubled, rising to 21. 3 billion. So whats been the reaction to the news bezos is stepping to the side, and what do we know about the new boss . Duncan howe is e commerce strategist at cheil uk, which is a Digital Marketing and advertising agency. Duncan, welcome to the programme. Executive chair man still means he will have a lot of control and very much involved in and is on, but it is the day to day responsibility. What do you think about this move . I responsibility. What do you think about this move . I think it is a bit of think about this move . I think it is
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