To celebrate the bloomberg 50. Our annual list of those that have measurable accomplishments. Jason but first, the biggest ipo, saudi aramco. Those shares surge to a market value of 2 trillion. Carol a culmination of a fouryear effort from the kingdom. We are in london to talk about this. A lot of questions. Now it is publicly traded and it is an ipo but it is only a small percentage, 1. 5 is out there in the public in terms of the company. Reporter the ipo has not turned out the way they expected it to happen. If you remember back to 2016 when they initially announced plans for the ipo, the plan was to sell as much as 5 of the company. What we really have to look at is what is the purpose of the ipo . It is seen as a means of diversifying saudi arabia away from its Oil Dependent economy, to raise money from International Investors and to deploy that on projects outside of the core energy industry. Ipothey managed to do the and the valuation did not get close to what they wanted but it
Docusign makes the glass door lift. We will talk to the doc you sign ceo about what makes the company so unique. Automation, transportation, the self driving semi makes its valley islicon listening to your most intimate moments. It is the focus of a Bloomberg Businessweek indepth piece about how the Smart Speaker left users vulnerable to their conversations being transcribed. It was one of their most read stories on the terminal wednesday. I spoke to bloomberg journalists about the story, including the devices, and use of contractors to transcribe intimate conversations. Lets hear from austin carr in new york. We spoke to dozens of transcribers and contractors. Everywhere from ireland to india. They had ethical quandaries with the service. They were eavesdropping on a lot of siri alexa customers in order to improve the systems speech recognition by transcribing recordings we submit to the cloud. The fascinating thing was the profound disparity you mentioned. Contractors felt it was eth
Employees, they do not. Jason much more of that ahead but we begin with our top stories. A busy week in d. C. With impeachment hearings. Trade talks hitting a series of road bumps. So much more and legislation passed by congress, supporting hong kong protesters. Lets break it down with Ryan Teague Beckwith in d. C. So ryan, help us understand everything that happened there in the nations capital. Ryan yeah. This was a long week. And i think the last news day was june 15, 2015. Last slow news day was june 15, 2015. [laughter] this was a particularly newsy week. The sondland testimony from the ambassador to the e. U. On what day was that even . Thats how long of a week its been. Jason wednesday. The sondland testimony on wednesday established pretty definitively that there was at least one quid pro quo holding out the white house meeting in exchange for investigations into the bidens. Sondland testified that he was not definitively sure that there was a second quid pro quo on the aide bu
Jason visa c. E. O. Al kelly, no relation, says consumers are still swiping and tapping despite talk of a recession. Carol and then theres this weeks cover story. Google and the generals. The search giant wants to build its military business, its employees they do not. Jason much more of that ahead but we begin with our top stories. A busy week in d. C. With impeachment hearings. Trade talks hitting a series of road bumps. So much more and legislation passed by congress, supporting hong kong protesters. Lets break it down with Ryan Teague Beckwith in d. C. So ryan, help us understand everything that happened there in the nations capital. Ryan yeah. This was a long week. And i think the last news day was june 15, 2015. [laughter] this was a particularly newsy week. The sondland testimony from the ambassador to the e. U. On what day was that even . Thats how long of a week its been. Wednesday. The sondland testimony on wednesday established pretty definitively that there was at least one
The search giant wants to build its military business, its employees they do not. Jason much more of that ahead but we begin with our top stories. A busy week in d. C. With impeachment hearings. Trade talks hitting a series of road bumps. So much more and legislation passed by congress, supporting hong kong protesters. Lets break it down with Ryan Teague Beckwith in d. C. So ryan, help us understand everything that happened there in the nations capital. Ryan yeah. This was a long week. And i think the last news day was june 15, 2015. [laughter] this was a particularly newsy week. The sondland testimony from the ambassador to the e. U. On what day was that even . Thats how long of a week its been. Wednesday. The sondland testimony on wednesday established pretty definitively that there was at least one quid pro quo holding out the white house meeting in exchange for investigations into the bidens. Sondland testified that he was not definitively sure that there was a second quid pro quo