Amazon, microsoft, and starbucks. Lets kick it off now with my exclusive interview with amazon Vice President of alexa devices. She told us that they would not rule out partnerships with major rivals like apple and google if it means improving their voice activated technology. I am focused on trying to reduce friction for customers and drive towards what we call our Customer Experience north star. Really the idea there is that alexa is more humanlike. So, it is conversational. So we can shorten the path from where the customer is starting and where they want to be with less and less work on their part. Emily is alexa be responding with the uhhuhs like in the snl skit . May be. I joke that that is Something Like a human would do. Emily when it comes to understanding human language, whether it is an adult talking or a child talking, or are we there when it comes to how much improvement can be made . We are definitely not there. It is day one, super early stages. We like to say we are on
Even when it looks like a company has already made a turn around, you need to stay close to them in order to know whether managementceed or fail. I mention this because when were dealing with a gigantic company, a turn around or a lack thereof can affect the entire stock market. Thats buy the dow jones fell 143 points. The nasdaq actually advanc advanced. 23 . What caused the dow to get clocked . This was all about ibms busted turn around story. The failu yes, 20 straight quarters of declining sales. Because of the way the dow is weighted, the downward tug of ibm stock, shaved more than 57 points off the dow, and i have been procuring some successful turn arounds, wall martimartwal mcdonalds and cocacola. Ibm is in the midst of an incredibly difficult turp around. While at the same time expanding into faster growing new tech areas that attract a different and morrow bust group of investors. Ibm wants to become known as the company that uses watsons platform. Watson wants to be viewed a
Now, Shepard Smith reporting live from the fox news desk. Hump day at last. First from the fox news deck, theres word a battle is waging high in trump tower as the president elects advisers fight to fill some of the new administrations top positions. Thats according to a senior trump economic adviser, plus, the website, politico, the New York Times and the Washington Post. The times report, im quoting here, firings and discord have put the trump transition into a state of disarray. But president elect trump is firing back in a big way. He tweeted today, the failing the New York Times story is so totally wrong on transition. It is going so smoothly. Also i have spoken to many foreign leaders. The times reports World Leaders have been blindly dialing into trump to talk to americas next commander in chief. President elect trump tweeted hes taken calls from the leaders of many countries including the united kingdom, china, saudi arabia, japan and, of course, russia. More on his talk with t
For the week. Vonnie 1. 5 Million Dollars worth of savings will help contribute because this is an allcash deal. An exciting day for the industry, specifically when you consider that they have been trying to consolidate and there are so many unsolicited bids between companies, monsanto included, and now monsanto is on the receiving end. Jon and the potential of that deal is being reflected lets get you up to speed on markets. Futures where are we . Im not sure we are that saw on the dow. We will update you on that in a moment. S p futures down. That is one year and not intraday. Moves, theyraday are your oneyear moved spirit lets switch up the board very quickly. Hopefully they are intraday moves through they are one year moves once again with euro down. That is the reality today, down by 10 over the last year. Around thes go world and check in with our Bloomberg Team for indepth coverage of our top stories. Matt miller is in berlin on buyers push for monsanto. Enda curran is in hong k
Estimates, revenue from this widely held stock also fell short of expectations. And this comes despite big blockbusters at the Box Office Like the force awakens and zootopia. Disney earned 1. 36 a share, below the 1. 40 that analysts expected. Revenue of 13 billion was higher than last year but wall street was looking for even more. And that along with lower ad sales in disneys Media Business weighed on shares. Julia boorstin has more on disneys disappointing quarter. Reporter disney shares falling in afterhours trading on earnings that were short of wall street estimates for the first time in years. Still adjusted earnings per share grew 11 on standout gross from the movie studio growing its revenue 22 and its operating income 27 from the year ago quarter on blockbusters the force awakens and zootopia. Ceo bob iger kicking off the thannings call by talking about the h films. There seem to be concerns about the Media Networks division including espn, its revenue is flat in the quarter,