A curated world view inhospitable to pluralistic political discourse amnesty his report has only confirmed what has long been known as both tack giants have been caught red handed countless times the worlds eyes were opened to the risk these tech platforms posed back in 28 by the facebook can break Analytical Data scandal data from 87000000 peoples profiles were harvested and used to micro target and manipulate people for political campaigning purposes and it looks like were still havent learned all the lessons last week a report in the wall street journal revealed that google partner it with Health Care Provider asuncion to secretly collect and store medical records on millions of patients across 21 states all after the company failed to convince customers to hand over their medical data voluntarily mean. Well facebook has a vivid lee deny the latest allegations made by the n. S. A. International a persons choice to use Facebook Services and the way we collect receiver use data all cl
Holding stronach bank of america reports tomorrow one of the biggest shareholders is getting more bullish. Ber shire seeking permission from the fed to boost stake in the bank beyond the 10 threshold. Did jamie and warren give the okay to ride the rally to new record highs why not those are the two. If knows two say its okay, who am i to argue with those two. Back to you. Back to you, mel. The jp morgan was quarter was fine and well talk about banks but put going in perspective and tangible book in jp morgan stock 120. Even i in my lame man can do the math and tell you tangible book its two times tangible book right now. That is a pretty big premium in this environment, i think. In erms it of mr. Buffett, he is actually sitting on a record amount of cash as well maybe thats why he wants to deploy to more banks but the indicator he mass looked at his entire career, the wilshire 5,000 over gdp in the united states. I mean that is flashing as red as maybe it has ever flashed ive been skep
Alltime high extending its gain into the fourth week as investors cheered corporate earnings. According to Lpl Financial today is historically the best day o the year f stocks and it stts the best sixmonth stretch for the ma det. Toda not disappoint. The dow jones industrtrl average was up to 27,090. Theed nasdaq a 82 and the s p 500 rose 16. And as you know, earnings can often drive rallie but this move higher appeave to be d by whats not being said on all ofhose earnings conference calls. Bob pisani explains. Were coming up on the halfway part of the earnings seas one word investors are not hearing is recession. Plenty of issues out there but the u. S. Consumer which is the engine of Global Growth istill holding up. Weve been scanneding the conference calls. 32 companies have mentioned the wordsion and that along with hopes of a trade deal is the major reaso the s p is hiing record highs today. The consumerer holding up. Bank and credit card ceos in partular have painted healthy pict
Kyle andeer. Pint rest spotify lyft uber. The algorithms are opt newsed to predict what customers want to buy regardless of the seller. We equalize the taim same criteria. With respect to popularity, we provide the ranking of each product. I just want to give you an example of an entrepreneurial sells on sales source, great for her, great for amazon, more people become amazon prime customers, sensing her success. The next thing that happens is they discover amazon rolled out a direct replica and gives itself top billing, which turns people to page 3 results which no one would see, how would any entrepreneur invest from that environment with i that can happen, which there is no assurance that it wont . Our incentive is to see the client succeed. If we do that, we do not use their individual data when we are making digs to launch private brands. Thank you. Now turning to Google Search for a moment, mr. Cohen, similar results in amazon, every day people thinking they are getting the best,
Cspan is brought to you by your local cable and satellite provider. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Next a Congressional Panel looks at Online Platforms and impact on entrepreneurship in the u. S. Well hear from google, apple, facebook and amazon officials who talk about ecommerce. This portion of the house judiciary hearing is is an hour and 50 minutes. Good afternoon. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. We welcome everyone to the second of our series of hearings investigating competition in the digital markets. This one on innovation and entrepreneurship. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. 30 years ago the First Software for the worldwide web was released into the Public Domain to create a Global Communications network. Within a few years, search and browsing services were built onto the software to give people tools to communicate, share and explore information throu