Hopkins. The president tweeting out the following. Quote, because we have done so well with energy over the last few years, thank you, mr. President , we are a Net Energy Exporter and now the Number One Energy producer in the world. We dont need middle eastern oil and gas and in fact, have very few tankers there but will help our allies, end quote. So has the rebuilding of our fossil fuel industry made mideast crises like these easier to handle . What do you think . I mean, opec used to call the shots in middle eastern terror, middle eastern disruption used to have a major disruption, even back in the 1980s, in our own economy. Certainly in the 1970s, especially when the environmentalists, the epa started. Thankfully because of the fossil fuel industry, the innovation, fracking, all the deregulation thats come across, terrible events like this will have ultimately a de minimis impact on the energy that powers our modern american lives. I agree. We are less dependent on foreign oil but
Weather and traffic. If you still have the tiredness left over after your three plates of thanksgiving goodness last night. Just be careful out there. No rain in northeast ohio, per se, in in terms of heavy rain, but a lot of drizzle in some cases, and the radar just doesnt pick that up. It shows clear, but your windshield wipers working, and thats because the drizzle is just too light to be picked up by 38 in mansfield, 38 there in oh heria. I dont in elyria. Visibility is good in most except ashtabula. The fog and drizzle will make driving around, especially early this morning, before the sunrises, a little but more tricky as you get to those stores around the region. You are hitting those roadways this morning, and right now no accidents to report to you, 80 towards the score and turnpike looking fine. Here is close look around metro cleveland, heading over to 480 and 490, no problems, down 271, and 76 interchange. On the east side, lots of shopping 0 to be done, as well, if youre c
Apple products are getting bigger and smaller. The company will unveil a wearable device on september 9 at an event as well as two larger iphones. They are also working on larger ipads with a 12. 9inch screen beginning production in the First Quarter of next year according to people with knowledge of the matter. With sales of current ipads falling for two straight quarters, will bigger screens mean bigger sales . Cory and i spoke with jean muenster. I started by asking jean, is bigger indeed better . It is. It is needed. Ipad sales have been down 5 for the past year. Bigger is better. Ultimately it is going to open up some newuse cases for ipads that we havent thought of, whether it is business or education. It is much needed. It has been a little bit slow on the innovation curve on the ipad. I think it will be positive for sales. What kind of use cases do you see . You could argue medical, design, manufacturing. This deal with apple which was inked about two months ago said they were
Program. The Brand Ambassadors are requesting rides from lyft, recruiting the drivers resulting in canceled lyft drives. Were are joined by our bloomberg contributing editor, paul kedrosky. Are you surprised that it has gotten this down and dirty . No, not really. Travis is an aggressive business guy. The smashing out marketing is what they have done all along. The idea that you might use Brand Ambassadors to try to recruit lyft drivers to uber should not surprise us. You just wrote a big cover story on uber, they have denied this in the past. The ceo said this has not happened but also saying that he believes that competition is good. Lets take a listen to what he had to say. Competition is good for the consumer but i like to say if youre out on the court, if you are lebron james, you are going to want to dunk on somebody. Competition can be fun but it is better for the consumer, better for the driver. Do you believe him . They have not denied this in the past. They came out and actua
Larger iphones. They are also working on larger ipads with a 12. 9 inch screen beginning production in the First Quarter of next year according to people with knowledge of the matter. With sales of current ipads falling for two straight quarters lrks bigger screens mean bigger sales . I started by asking jean, is bigger indeed better . It is. It is. T is needed. Bigger is better. Ultimately it is going to open up some new use cases for ipads that we hasnt throuth of whether it is business or education. It is much needed. It has been a little bit slow on the innovation curve on the ipad. What kind of use cases do you see . You could argue medical. This deal with apple which was inked about two months ago said they were going to come up with 100 combinations. Right now the simple answer is we dont fully know but there are clearly benefits to bigger screens and they will be nailing gap. What does this mean for much larger screen size . It is probably negative in ipads case. About 25 versu