The channel while cutting overhead. Bbc america is available in 80 million u. S. Households and airs shows like the musketeers. Twitter shares soared 20 today following a strong earnings report, its biggest daily gain since the day after its ipo. The ceo says changes made to the service are working. He says revenue rose mostly because users spent more time on twitter, and the audience for tweets beyond twitter itself is more than twice its active user base. And Edward Snowden temporary asylum in russia is set to expire tomorrow. He has requested an extension. Coming up at the bottom of the hour, an indepth look at how snowdens revelations about federal government spying have impacted business, government, and your privacy rights. First, to our lead story of the day. Amazon make its objectives public in its dispute with a book group over ebook prices. It has been going on since may. Its key objective is to lower ebook prices. Amazon argues that if ebooks were priced at 9. 99 instead of
Photo disappearing app the next member of the 10 billion valuation club. An essay weaker nsa leaker Edward Snowdens temporary asylum in russia is set to expire tomorrow. A bill to review surveillance practices has cleared the house and goes to the senate. We will have a look at how snowdens revelations have changed the fields of business and government and you. Objectivees its public in a dispute with hash the group over ebook prices. Has been going on since may. In a blog post, amazon said its key objective is to lower ebook prices. At 9. 99s were priced instead of 14. 99, there would be higher sales which means more money for authors and publishers and amazon. Amazon writes, while we believe that 35 should go to the author and a 35 to , we believe 70 of the total revenue should go to hachette. Joining us via skype is an small distributor serving presses and literary agents. And a published author of several books on amazon. You have been supportive of amazon throughout this dispute.
Business sentiment disappointing. Road map like this, breaking news across the pond, news editor, rebecca brooks found in the guilty in the phone hacking case, but far from over. The nations largest drugstore results fall short of estimates. A new milestone for cystic fie bro sis, shares shore after a late stage trial succeeds, but can it pass . We have a live report. Former news of the world editor, rebecca brooks, found not guilty of the phone hacking conspiracy. We are in london this morning with more. Good morning. Reporter hi there, carl. This is the trial of the century here in london. We had nearly eight months worth of evidence. The jury has gone through pages of evidence, and they have taken seven full days to find brooks not guilty on all the charges against her, including conspiracy to hack phones, conspiracy in the course of justice, and, of course, conspiracy to bribe officials, otherwise known here to commit crimes in a public office, so shes walking out of here a free wo
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