Are shaping up. And harnessing the power of sd printing in health care. We meet the firm thats revolutionising the way artificial limbs are made making them cheaper and easier for those who need them most. And as you are hearing. Like it or loath it facebook is bigger more profitable and more controversial than ever. What do you think about that . Has it got too much influence . Just use the bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to Business Live. We start with facebook because despite the ongoing controversy over everything from fake news to extremist and violent content the Social Networkjust keeps getting bigger and more profitable. Facebook has been warning for some time it cant keep growing at this rate but the latest results show no sign of a slowdown. Facebook made profits ofjust over 3 billion in the first three months of this year. Thats a jump of more than 76 on the same period last year and more than investors were expecting. And it is creeping ever closer to two billion users 1. 91;
Thats turned french politics upside down now is the last chance for the two president ial candidates to appeal for voters before the polls open on sunday. Well get the inside track on the last week of the contest and ask how much the winner can achieve when they get into office. No specific question today. Just letters know what you think of the programme. Be nice just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to Business Live. The head of the American Investment bank Goldman Sachs, has warned that britains Financial Centre the City Of London will stall when the country leaves the European Union. Lloyd blankfein told the bbc that the bank had Contingency Plans to move staff to mainland europe, depending on the outcome of brexit talks. At the moment Goldman Sachs employ 6,500 people here in the uk. The bank is due to move into a new premises in 2019 as it tries to bring all its london staff into the same building the stakes are high for Goldman Sachs. It has around 3a,000 staff worl
Later in the programme well get the inside track on a tech company which aims to tackle the worldwide problem of poor eyesight. A new survey has found that online spending in the uk has fallen for the First Time Since 2013. Today we want to know whether your expectations of the future are affecting your Spending Decisions . Do get in touch just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Hello and welcome to Business Live. So Emmanuel Macron has won the french presidency, and now the hard work begins. His first challenge will be to form a government with crucial parliamentary elections in june. The outcome of that will determine how much power the new president has to tackle the lengthy list of economic problems. France has had a high Unemployment Rate for decades currently around 10 of the workforce or 3 million people. That compares with less than half 4. 3 across the border in germany. The problem is worse for young people 24 of those between the ages of 15 and 2a dont have a job. The other big iss
To chris wright, the man responsible for signing Spandau Ballet. The New York Times is offering people a brexit tour of london. It is the brexit means brexit tour. Were asking you today whats your most memorable tour and was it that expensive . Just use the hashtag bbc Business Live. Hello and welcome to Business Live. We start with the worlds second biggest car maker, toyota, which has just reported its latest set of financial results. Its not good news. Full year profits are down 21 . This is the first time in five years that the company has reported a drop in earnings. Our correspondent Rupert Wingfield hayes is in tokyo. Rupert, what more can you tell us about the figures . Good morning, rachel. It is a fall for toyota as expectedment more than expected, but its still, you know, if profits of 16 billion are bad then it is a problem that a lot of companies would like to have, but thats a fall to 1. 83 trillion yen and there is expectation that it will fall again this Financial Year
To stay on hold of a record low of 0. 25 . And the company that created photoshop, well be speaking to the boss of the Software Firm adobe, shantanu narayen. Today we want to know, do you use snapchat . What do you use it for . Let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. I know that tanya is a user of snapchat, i have seen the selfies and we start with snap, the Company Behind the messaging app snapchat. It lets you send photo messages that disappear after a few seconds. But it seems the confidence of investors has gone missing almost as fast. Snaps shares plunged in after hours trading on its first set of Financial Results since that huge Flotation Back in march. Snap lost 2. 21 billion in the first three months of the year. Thats way more than the same time last year. Why . Well, mostly because of huge pay outs to staff with Stock Options in the flotation. But heres the number investors are really looking at. By the end of march 166 Million People were using snapchat every day. Tha