The main event was organized in washington. This is bloomberg. Caroline coming up, google steps up its cloud business. We have all of the highlight highlights from googles conference. The next wave of u. S. Tech one nano degree at a time. Interest as a Search Engine with a more personalized touch. Google sees reliability as a competitive advantage. Conference, dan ranked google ahead of those companies as the most reliable copywriter for 2016. Clients. O attracting it in the latest speech, he says he sees cloud becoming one of the Core Products such as search advertising. Google cloud is a natural extension. We are just doing it for businesses. Increasingit means availability and lowering costs. We also talked about i is going to open up new businesses, for example Financial Services and we can. Ave Better Services we can have new ways of delivering products to customers. Ai Machine Learning is huge. I deeply believe this is the driving force of a transformative time. Is this why you w
Attention is now turning to tomorrow s meeting between president xi and President Trump. And well be live at londons city hall where Business Leaders from europes big cities are working out how to get through the uncertainty of brexit. And as iceland legislates to enforce equal pay we want to hear from you what would you do to level the pay of men and women. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Welcome to the programme. Perhaps some transparency on what people are actually paid. Illjust throw that one out there. Send us your comments. It has been a week since the United Kingdom finally gave the European Union notice it wants to leave. The british Prime Minister theresa may has suggested Freedom Of Movement of people between the uk and the eu could be extended after brexit. Thats just one issue the European Parliament is discussing and it matters because it can veto any final agreement made between the uk and the european council. One of the other big issues theyll be looking at is the size
Pitch as its expected to field acquisition offers this week. And unexpected fireworks from the Vice President ial debate last night. Well look at the highlights and the impact on the campaign. Amazon hitting another alltime high yesterday. Announcing prime reading, which unlocks thousands of kindle books for free. What that means for the industry. But first up, twitter shares rising in the premarket amid some increasing talk about a possible sale of the company. Comes more than a week after david broke the news that twitter has received expressions of interest from a number of Tech Companies that are considering whether to make a bid for the social media company. Little more color being flushed out by some regarding splits on the board between av and dorsey, the role nodas had in sort of driving morale. Yeah, interesting story from bloomberg. Our reporting sort of is where it was, you know, perhaps it is this week as i last reported. There was a formalization, more or less of a process
Category 3 storm packing winds up to 120 miles an hour triggering mass flooding. Margaret brennan is live in daytona beach. Reporter this storm is off the coast of daytona. Conditions have definitely worsened. One of the biggest focuses is storm surmg. Weve been seeing these waves rip up from the ocean, up over the promenade, and they ear coming into the backyard of this hotel. There is actually a tennis court that was here just a short while ago. It is completely submerged like a pool. Theres garbage can submerged in it as well. Surprisingly, the volleyball net is still sort of hanging in there. But in general, president obama making a statement just a short while ago saying that storm surge is a top concern. Weve got about 4 feet in terms of storm surge coming in here. It feels like and looks like its higher in part because we have the high tide coming in here at 12 45. The biggest concern is jacksonville, florida, about an hour and a half north of here, and up the georgia coast in t
Great reporting by alex sherman over the last few days for this. The verizon sale will not include yahoo cashiers in alibaba, and verizon will be integrated with aol. Alex sherman is joining us now. You scooped this on friday. Talk us through what happened in the last 72 hours because there were still stumbling brocks tumbling blocks on friday. Alex verizon was always a favorite and we have been talking about that since january. Verizon upped its bid. In the last round of bids, verizon was still only bidding between 3. 75 billion and 4 billion. That was not the high bid. Yahoo had more or less put pressure on verizon saying if you want to buy this thing, you have been the presumptive buyer the whole time, you have to step up and increase the bid. We realize you do not want the nonessential into little property that is not part of the deal, but you still have to bump it up a little bit. Verizon figured when push comes to shove, at the very end here, that is when we will make our move. B