Win over the millennials who campaign. Sanders a dutch investigation implicates russia and the downing of a malaysian passenger jet over lewd over ukraine two years ago. Im mark crumpton. Bloomberg west is next. Emily im emily chang and this is bloomberg west. Its the end of an era blackberry is powering down its own business. We will take a look at what is next. Plus the future of mobility from Battery Power to self driving cars, we will hear from ford ceo , mark shield ahead. And to veterans dealmakers, we will talk about what is driving acquisitions and buyouts in the Tech Industry today. The end of an era for smartphones blackberry has said it will stop making the handsets that were once so addictive that we called them crack berries. Shares surging 5 on the news. The company struck up a deal with an Indonesian Company to distribute blackberry devices running on blackberry secure software. The move comes three years after the ceo, john chen took over and outsourced manufacturing to
Pennsylvania. It is about 55 minutes. Tom thank you. It is interesting being here because this is my hometown bookstore. This is different giving a presentation. I want to thank susie and those from barnes noble for making this possible and for book tv covering this. Afterwards. Q and a i will start with a question for myself, which is ok. I am a sports guy and i read a book about flight 93. You may know, i work for the pittsburgh penguins. Dids because nobody else and apparently nobody was going to pray while and i thought was going to for a while and i thought it needed to be written. From only about 90 miles pittsburgh were the flight crashed and i wanted to read more and write more and i was frustrated. There was a little amount written about 9 11, there was only one book about flight 93 bring about a less than a year after the crash. It was a good job, but there was not much known back then. Smith more now is known. So much more now is no. And i think that the story was merited fr
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I thought the story needed to be told. Im a history buff and go to gettysburg all the time and i have been to the temporary memorial ten times. Its only 90 miles from pittsburghy the flight crashed, and i wanted to read more and learn more and was frustrated i couldnt do that. Theres an amazing in book form written about september 11th. One book about flight 93 written less than a year after the crash. The author did a great job but there wasnt much known then and much more has come out since then. I thought the story deserved a narrative from beginning to end. Noting the flight. The documentary is just the flight. My book starts with starts in 1996 when the plot was first proposed to Osama Bin Laden and it goes through a tenth anniversary in 2011 when the flight 93 National Memorial was dedicated. The flight the two chapters on the fight are in the middle of the book. The afterstory in the county really fascinated me. I thought that the stories being forgotten. If you look at the medi