Like for americans all over the country. Americans hear from judge Amy Coney Barrett. The terrified runin that a jogger had with this Mountain Lion we speak with the man live tonight. Announcer live from cnbc global headquarters, the facts, the news the news with Shepard Smith. Early voting happening at this moment in 46 states voter turnout turn voter turnout continues to be recordshattering. Take a look at these lines in texas. Early inperson voting kicked off just today some people report they had to wait for hours joe biden spent the day in florida with a focus on Senior Citizens and black voters. Right now President Trump is set to speak at a Campaign Rally in johnstown, pennsylvania. Pennsy. Its aen airport rally, where le flying its one of his airport ralliess like in. Where he flies in, speaking and flying out in air force one. We have never seen numbers like in. In texas early voting comes on the heels of a federal Appeals Court ruling just yesterday that the state can limit c
Means, what healthy competition means, julia, in this era that were in my take thus far is that theres been a difficulty applying kind of legacy, antitrust law to technology will new ground get broken here because congress, as we learned in elementary school, makes the laws absolutely. And theres been a lot of talk about the need for new, different types of laws. But jon and carl, what i think is really interesting here is the question of how much of todays hearing will really focus on the antitrust issues, which are the purported focus here, and how much will we hear other criticisms, other questions about the likes of hate speech, manipulation, voter manipulation and the spread of misinformation on these platforms such as, you know, youtube which is owned by google as well as on facebook so i think there are a lot of Different Things at play here. While antitrust will be at the center, carl, dont you think well see this veer off into other directions as well yeah. Thats sort of my qu
Impact that its products have on smartphone addiction in children cnbcs leslie picker has more on this story for us. Leslie hey, bill, thats right, its a twist on activist investing. Jana and california state teachers retirement system, sending a letter over the weekend to apples board pushing for changes there. In the letter, they say that apples ubiquity has created unintended negative consequences for children, particularly when it comes to their physical and mental health. They want apple to form a committee to study this issue and add more restrictions for younger users. Apple already provides tools that allow parents to restrict what their kids do on their phones, but jana and calsters believe there should be more thats done there. The letter was part of the firms announcement of their own social impact fund the plan is to raise money then use their activism knowhow to target Companies Like apple they they believe could do better when it comes to social issues now, investors and
Those losses right after the numbers came out. And one of the reasons facebook shares may have traded lower is because the stock had run up so much in anticipation of strong earnings in a quarter where the company beat pretty much across the board. Revenue, earnings and user numbers all better than expected. Cfo david wayner who we spoke to right after those numbers were out telling us that video as well as growing engagement particularly on mobile devices are factors driving results. We have nearly 1. 5 billion users on facebook. Thats nearly half the worlds online population. And thats growing very nicely. We added 173 Million People to facebook year over year. Thats our strongest growth in nearly two years. And those people are coming back. Weve got 65 of our monthly users coming back every day. On the Earnings Call were going to be looking for more insight into the success of those video ads as well as the role of instagram ads. And were going to be looking also for some details on
Julia. Reporter well, netflix shares skyrocketing as much as 20 higher in after hours trading as its results blew apast expectations. Netflix beating projections on revenue, earnings and subscriber numbers with guidance for the Fourth Quarter also better than expected. On the call, investors will be looking to understand what drove these results and whether this kind of growth is sustainable. Some hot topics to watch in the video q and a just about to kick off now. The companys growing investment in original content production, which Reed Hastings said is less expensive than licensing a series or film. International growth in profitability is always in an area of interest. And we can look for some insight into the companys new china strategy. Hastings Just Announced they plan to license content to existing Online Service providers, rather than operating their own service in china. Theres always interest in Reed Hastings perspective on competition on the heels of Goldman Sachs recommend