And well be getting the inside track on how to feed a hungry planet. We hear from one woman who believes she has the solution to the issue of limited resources and it involves bugs. And as facebook fights backs against claims by a former boss that the site is ripping society apart, we want to know do you agree or is facebook right to defend itself . Send your comments to hashtag bbcbizlive. Lots of comments from you already. So keep them coming in. Is Facebook Ripping Society apart . Facebook says no. Many of you disagree. We will talk about that later. The worlds most powerful central bank the Us Federal Reserve will today announce if it plans on raising Interest Rates for the worlds biggest economy. Any rise will be seen as an endorsement of not only the strength of the american economy, but also the Global Economy. This is ten years on from the financial crisis. There have been three rises since december 2016 and markets are already factoring in another rise later. Us Economic Growt
Numbers. Bitcoin tumbles after one of the biggest cryptocurrency markets thinks about banning trading. I get in enough trouble talking about things i know about. Why should i talk about things i know nothing about. And the uae oil minister tells cnbc that opec measures are bearing fruit. Opec is committed to what they have decided when we meet in november, which to continue this deal for a full year. The market is balancing. This is what we have been saying good morning were about one hour into the trading session. Its thursday. As you can see, the picture bemib behind me is not looking that positive the split between red and green for europe for the first day in six days, u. S. Equities came off their highs. The opening picture for europe is pointing to slightly weaker start to the day just below that flat line. Lets get into some of the individual markets uk has a very big earnings day as far as retailers. Tesco came out, house of frazier. Whale get into tho well get into those stori
Of other customers while youre there . Only 1 of Pharmaceuticals Business is conducted online. One entrepreneur got the bright idea to relieve some of the pain points with a digital full. Reporter when eric went to his drugstore to pick up a prescription medicatio in january of 2015, his headache was just beginning. He waited in line nearly an hour before speaking to a pharmacist. He said, im so sorry, were out of stock of zpack. Im thinking, this is january, its the only thing that pharmacies should have. I cant believe this is an experience that exists on every Street Corner in america. Reporte w42 percent of respo survey said their pharmacy was out of stock at least once, causing them to make a return trip. Eric came up with a concept for an online pharmacy. He refined it for more than a year with an old friend, pharmacist sonia patel. Most pharmacy systems are built on technology that was in use 20 years ago. It didnt work for the pharmacist, didnt work for the consumer, didnt work
Its a significant step forward for us. From the kick starter edition. Its six times faster, its got double the memory, twice the usb ports, and its filled with these wonderful new creative projects. Theres make arts, which is a digital easel to learn code by painting characters and fractels. Its immediate, and the game mechanic is step by step. You learn how to type simple commands, magic spells we call them. And you see beautiful washes of color and shapes appear before your eyes. Weve also creative a narrative adventure called terminal quest, which i think some people in this audience who came up on the commodore 64 may enjoy. Terminal quest is a mystery, a narrative mystery told step by step, where you use linux command spells to unlock new powers, save your town and borrow into basically a new world. You go down the rabbit hole, you try to solve the mystery, you dont realize it, but youre learning about the linux command line spells that make a lot of the modern world work. Another
You bring lots of different people to the table. Is this mostly parents wanting their kids to be the next Mark Zuckerberg . There is interest from parents, teachers but as we started to take the kid around the world to sierra leone for an sense, there is this sort of rising creative generation of kids who are pulling together resources, software, a bit of design and making things that perhaps the brains in this room as monumental as they are could never have imagined. We met a man. This kid and he was 13 started pulling electronic parts out of the garbage and went to an internet cafe. He looked at what the components did and within a couple years he built a battery. A couple years after that he built his own Radio Station was brought testing across sierra leone. Weve had spoken word artists used to compose and kids build servers and game consoles. The core audience now, obviously a lot of parents and teachers know in order to prepare the next generation they have to speak the language