Many people. Tencent is one of the most active investors in the world. More than 450 investments under the companys umbrella and that is more than the number in softbanks universe and includes names like tesla, snap and epic. Thirdly, american businesses operating in china, like mcdonalds and starbucks, they rely on the wechat app for their operations so being cut off could jeopardize their business there. There are so many questions still outstanding but its really hard to understate the importance the daily role of wechat for chinese internet users. Its called a superapp people use it for everything from messaging and booking a doctors appointment and we dont have an equivalent here. Tik tok is popular in the u. S. Its looking at a sale to microsoft so it could get around that ban there is no such option for wechat, carl weve tried to explain to investors just how important it is on the other side of the world. Lets bring in global head of Technology Investment strategy at deutsche.
Starting with what you will see before you. And then second beginning at 315 with the problems of tackling disinformation and we are delighted to start off today with remarks of those run the frontline we have the director performance security and infrastructure security at the department of Homeland Security and then coming right from the frontlines to deal with these issues he will give us an overview of what that government is trying to do to tackle the issue head on. And then most recently was the National Security council and the director for resilience and then to be engaged in Election Security and integrity. At that the Harvard Institute of politics and with that Public Outreach and the various issues so we would be concerned since the 2016 election. Mark will be joined by a david founder for the center for election and research one dad is devoted to this precise issue and has spent many years at the Pew Research Foundation looking at public am pulling opinion. And last but not
Economic harm to the company. But that just isnt in the case with google. So its a legitimate question as to whether googles market power insulates it. I also think its a legitimate question to ask if other attempts to regulate your industries have worked. So mr. Pachi, google has restricted the portability of user data due to compliance with the general Data Protection regulation. Specifically in 2018, google restricted the ability to export the double i. D. Of cookie based identifier that creates profiles through google data transfer. Is that correct . Congressman, not familiar with the specifics of that particular issue. But happy to follow up more once i understand it better. So youre not particularly familiar with how youre complying with gdpr. Congressman, weve long been working to comply with gdpr. We think its an important regulation, and we have we are in full come plibpliance to extent of my knowledge. I just meant not with that specific issue you mentioned there. So to compl
Hello everybody welcome to the brookings event on election and here at the Brookings Institute to have several colleagues to join me for an indepth discussion on this topic we will do a twopart event today starting with what you see before you. With the integrative process and then as second panel on the problems tackling this implication with a campaign were in the midst of. And with those keynote remarks some one from someone on the front lines. And the infrastructure security with the department of homeland security. And with they are doing with those t issues and then to go into a discussion with mark harvey with the National Security council for the person in charge of coordinating all of the initiatives. And with Election Security and integrity. And at the Harvard Institute of politics will also trying to work with the outreach on those issues and to understand whats involved on the various issues and to be and in the midterms. And with the organization especially devoted with th
S p 500 essentially flat year to date nasdaq up some 19 59 minutes left in the session, sara coming up on this friday afternoon, weve got a series of great gifts for you. Red finns stock was on fire the stock selling to have day on the companys cautious outlook as the ceo says the bottom codrp out on the economy were going to talk to glenn kelman in a few minutes. And then apple once again, the Biggest Public Company in the world, surpassing saudi ramco. Continuing the historic run. The market cap now sitting above 1. 8 trillion. Its up over 8. 25 well talk about what an investor should do with this stock next lets focus in on the big stories that were watching. Mike santoli looking at the market and the tech stocks surging to day kayla is looking over the next stimulus package first to you, mike. The story from the morning was that Great Results from the big four of tech did not really lift all votes did you have weakness. Sold a strong open the market firmed up in the last hour or so