Welcome to the 14th annual state of the net conference. Thank you for coming. Some have been here for 14 years in a row and i really appreciate. A lot of you have been here for a number of years. I think you as well. This year has been an interesting year. Not only national affairs, but also in internet policy. It has been a really interesting convulsive, different year. A lot of things have changed. We are really excited. When put together a great group of speakers that will be here to talk about a lot of those changes that have happened to us in internet policy in the last year. Also scope out what we think this year will look like. That is kind of the point of state of the neck. In january. My name is tim and im the executive director of the organization founded by jerry berman who was over here. You will hear from him at lunch who founded the organization and found the concept. [applause] jerry is a giant and we are happy to have him back. He will be introducing in the program so y
Halftime report starts now. Just because were not up or down a thousand points of the dow does not mean the markets are calm in fact, the dow has been up and down tripledigits today now right now we are holding on to the strong gains, but with three hours to go, you never know what could happen risk also coming off just a bit as stocks rise volatility gauges are falling but the vix still above 20 match. Com soaring the dating site which oend owns tinder as more people sign up chipotle down and comp sales missing targets and it expects the decline to continue toward the middle of the year and wynn resorts and michael kors an and hasbro rallying and wynn, get to that story soon. Im Tyler Mathisen breaking news out of washington, Senate Leaders have announced a longterm budget deal. Kayla is on the hill with details. This is a deal in discussion since this fall. But earlier today just a few minutes ago leadership from each party in the senate took to the floor to announce they had resolve
Lets start in the business section. A story that is fascinating came out a couple of weeks ago. It is about a trifecta of wellknown individuals, jeff bezos, warren buffett, and jamie dimon talking about fixing the health care system. The biggest guys around. The details on this story remain hazy. What will be the solution in health care . How are they going to try to fix this . Theyre trying to find a ceo who can spearhead this initiative in the three companies. What is interesting, and we pick up the narrative, the reaction within the industry. The health care industry, amazon is at the door, this is a big deal. That is where we picked up. Julia this is not what we were expecting. We should make the point that at the moment they are tackling the situation with their individual companies. What does this mean for the individual players, the insurers, the pharmacies, the middlemen . Carol pharma, right . Right. All of this is a massive cocktail of what is happening in health care . Why d
That has fascinated else but came out a couple weeks ago. A trifecta of wellknown individuals. Warren buffett, jeff bezos, jamie dimon talking about fixing the health care system. The biggest guys around. The details about this remain hazy. What is going to be the solution and health care, and how will they try to fix it . Can spearhead this initiative between amazon. Com, berkshire hathaway, and jpmorgan. Where we try to pick up the narrative is the reaction within the industry. The Health Care Industry is like, amazon is at the door . It is not what we were expecting from amazon, a foray into health care. Its a situation with their individual companies what does this mean for the individual players . The insurers, the middlemen . This is a massive cocktail of what is happening in health care. Why do prices keep getting higher and consumers feel like they are getting the shortest straw of all . Theres an expectation that there is middlemen. Pharmacy, benefit managers. There seems to b
Came out a couple weeks ago. A trifecta of wellknown individuals. Warren buffett, jeff bezos, and jamie dimon talking about fixing the health care system. The biggest guys around. The details about this remain hazy. What is going to be the solution in health care . How are they going to fix this . And what ceo can spearhead this initiative between amazon. Com, berkshire hathaway, and jpmorgan. Where we try to pick up the narrative is the reaction within the industry. The Health Care Industry is like, amazon is at the door . Julia and it is not what we were expecting from amazon, a foray into health care. They are just tackling a situation with their individual companies. What does this mean for the individual players . The insurers, the middlemen . All of this is a massive cocktail of what is happening in health care. Why do prices keep getting higher and consumers feel like they are getting the shortest straw of all . The speculation is that there is middlemen. Pharmacy benefit manage