Golden globes. Headlines from my radio cohost, carol massar. Ben bernanke said the headwinds may be waning. The outgoing Federal Reserve chairman says the country is poised for faster growth. He pointed to financial healing in the Housing Market and Monetary Policy accommodation. Total return funds lost its title as the Largest Mutual Fund in october. 41. 1 billion last year. Pulled 4. 2 billion in the month of december. U. S. Crude oil imports fell to the lowest level in 16 years. This is according to the energy administration. The fewest since january, 1998. The numbers are based on four week averages. Those are some top headlines at this hour. Thank you. Breaking news from bloomberg. Liberty media corporation. They plan to make sirius xm a subsidiary of the company. The Bloomberg Radio provides programming to serious xm. Talk about what this means. He is if he is able to bring them in, they stand to benefit from the growth. It has been doing well over the past few years. It has been
Whatsapp. Our lead story of the day, Caroline Hyde sat down with the blackberry ceo. They talked about the value of messagings bbms pprvice in light of the whatsa acquisition. I was really surprised when i started doing more research on whsatsapp. Isot of study said that bbm dominant. Would be typically places outside the u. S. It is strong. It is clearly an asset of blackberry. Messaging is a basic sort of means. There is a competing messaging Service Called message me. They said they thought a spike in users means that People Survey one it when they wanted. Whateverk will happen you want to call it, two interesting. It is it does not mean the dollar will transfer. It doesnt mean 35 billion was spent over the top. It needs a win away from the carrier. The value it doesnt mean it went away from the carrier. The value we will talk about the way people are using messaging in the enterprise as well as individuals. Blackberry also unveiled two new phones. One has the keyboard. The other is
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And now turkey has blocked access to googles youtube. Court ordered the government to lift the ban on twitter although it is unclear whether if or when it will be lifted. Twitter has signed a deal with billboard. Charts will measure the popularity of songs based on how much buzz it is generating. Twitter announced plans to his continued its music app. Shares are up more than 15 . Try net makes Cloudbased Software for medium and small businesses. It is time for microsoft the the press ast chief executive. Mobilea bigger push into and tailoring its office suite to work on apples iowa state vices for the very first time. Cory johnson is live outside the event. You have two big significant things happening in San Francisco. Have satya nadella, the new microsoft ceo, addressing the tech journalists. That is a big deal. It is a big deal that he came to us. He came to San Francisco where the Big Tech Companies are headquartered here in headquartered. Microsoft office will be on the iphone and
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