We will examine techs role in the responsibility eliminating terror from social media. Softbank announce the first round of Capital Commitments for a tech investment fund. With more than 93 billion in the coffers. The vision fund is asked to top 100 million in six months time and will focus on startups in the united states. Peter l joint us from tokyo with all the details. Peter it took a long time. Softbank originally announced this in october of last year. It came from the meeting with the deputy crown prince of saudi arabia. After many months of waiting that it would close, it did they did not get the full 100 billion dollars, but they got to 93 billion. A record for a tech fund. The core investors are softbank and the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund. Abu dhabi has also put in moneys as well as qualcomm, apple, and some others. One name that did not show up in the press release was Larry Ellison of oracle. It is not clear whether he is going to come in at a later round or not pa
We will examine techs role in the responsibility eliminating terror from social media. Softbank announce the first round of Capital Commitments for a tech investment fund. With more than 93 billion in the coffers. The vision fund is asked to top 100 million in six months time and will focus on startups in the united states. Peter l joint us from tokyo with all the details. Peter it took a long time. Softbank originally announced this in october of last year. It came from the meeting with the deputy crown prince of saudi arabia. After many months of waiting that it would close, it did they did not get the full 100 billion dollars, but they got to 93 billion. A record for a tech fund. The core investors are softbank and the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund. Abu dhabi has also put in moneys as well as qualcomm, apple, and some others. One name that did not show up in the press release was Larry Ellison of oracle. It is not clear whether he is going to come in at a later round or not pa
And over the past 30 years we have built and expanded in the neighborhood around us has changed dramatically. So what used to be a Light Industrial district is now a late Retail District and we are surrounded by wonderful places like anthropology and starbucks for reuse to be surrounded by auto repair shops and ball bearing manufacturers. This is symbolic of all the things we have here at powells books. The base of it says four things in latin. It starts off with vending lieberman sell the book and on the side it says carpeting the room, sees the book. And over here it says leave room, read the book and finally our favorite, by the book. What makes us unique is a combination of several things in one of the most important ones is we started out as a used bookstore so we sell used and new right next to each other and to us its the content that is king and it doesnt matter where it came from so out of our million books, half of them are used, half of them approximately new. That makes us
We have wine and beer and music on the weekends. How many book events do you do on a regular basis . On a yearly basis, about 600 a year. Often kid events, adult events, other kinds of things but we are very active. When did you open . About 35 years ago. Why . Well, you know, the story is basically i was an english major in college. I didnt want to give up the dream of being part of the literary culture and one quick way to do that was to get into the book business. I loved bookstores when i was a kid. I saw myself at the bookstore more than the library in college. I went to law school. Why coral gables . I am originally from miami beach so when i moved back from where i was going to school, coral gables was a community i didnt know very well but i explored it. It was right before an independent book shop at the time ripe for an surrounded by miami . What you think of miami is really about 26 different little cities. Miami beach, miami, miami south. So coral gables is just one of thos
Wondered what would happen, was a very positive experience. What about boston at that sometime. Yes. Boston was mixed. By and large, going to boston i had read about paul revere and his ride some lexington and the concord battles and the Boston Tea Party and also crispus attus was the first black to die in the revolutionary war. So i went to see the memorial for hem on the boston common. So i soaked up the hoyt the history of boston, so very positive. So my experience in boston really was very positive, but later in the late 50s the year i entered medical school was the year brown versus board of occasion, the Supreme Court decision, and so as this was implemented around the country, problems of not only in the south but in the north as well. And boston was one of those areas. So, my experience in boston was somewhat different from blacks who went to boston in the late 50s. They found with the political shenanigans of hicks i still remember him from south boston, running to be mayor, b