Media animal celebrities yeah, you heard me right and the boss of the worlds Biggest Online pet sitting marketplace. Plus, your call is important to us. Please hold the line. Yep, im going to be catching up with the president of the Customer Service Tech Giant Salesforce about their latest ai chatbots looking to take the strain. Wherever yourejoining me from around the world, once again, a big hello and a warm welcome to the show. You know, during the pandemic lockdowns, more and more of us looked to pets for companionship and comfort, certainly spurring a huge surge in Pet Ownership in many countries around the world. And that surge created vast new opportunities for businesses that support our pets, from vet services to rubber toys. The increasing demand has seen the amount we spend on pets follow suit. The uptick in ownership, its come with a change in the way we treat our animals, with the phenomenon known as humanising. Yeah, thats treating our animals more like wed like to be tre
Hello. A very warm welcome to Talking Business weekly with me, aaron heslehurst. Lets go and take a look at whats on the show. This is wednesday, shes my three year old German Shepherd cross. Ive had herfor about two and a half years, since the middle of the pandemic, and i spend about £250 a month average on her, which is about 17 of my salary. Yep, the global pet industry. It has been booming as more and more of us spend big, pampering our pooches and caring for our cats. A surge in ownership during the pandemic has changed how we treat our Furry Friends, ushering in a new era of humanising our animals, with social media leading the pack. And its an industry set to be worth half a trillion dollars by the end of the decade. So im going to be discussing all of that with these two. There they are, the head of an agency representing social media animal celebrities. Yeah, you heard me right. And the boss of the worlds Biggest Online pet sitting marketplace. Plus, your call is important t
Both Beat Expectations on earnings and revenue, thanks in no small part to investments in artificial intelligence. One Stand Out Spot for alphabet was google cloud revenue, whichjumped 28 in 01. A lot of Generative Ai Tools that rely on the cloud to reach customers. Alphabet announced some good news for investors, its first ever dividend of 20 cents per share, and first ever dividend of 20 cents pershare, and an first ever dividend of 20 cents per share, and an additional 70 billion buy back. That initially sent shares into double digits after the bell. And for microsofts part, its Intelligent Cloud Division delivered greater revenue than expected thanks to Microsoft Partnership but with openai, the creator of chatgpt. Shares rose on the news. And together, they should go some way through restoring confidence in the tech sector which was shaken wednesday after metas stock fell after its own Earnings Report and after the market was rattled by slowing us gdp and stubborn inflation. In ot
5 00 a. M. Starts right now. Cant wait to talk about that will love, great to have you here on this tuesday, morning, im Thomas Drayton with karen hepp. Good morning, thomas. Do you feel royal love over there. Yes. Love on the brain. Nothing like royal love this early in the morning. Good morning. Good morning. It is tuesday, National French toast day. I love that. What is your favorite topping, i just like slap the butter on there, cinnamon, syrup. Wouldnt it be great if we had a chef in the corner, and let us know what you favorite, and, and. Bring it over here to fourth and market. We will in the say no, that is correct. We have a royal 10 for our number today. It will be a nice day. It is chilly. It was a chilly start, decided to go with the 10 because it is november, chilly in the morning, wind chills in the 20 s and 30s wear warm coat and it will be just fine 35 degrees right now, sunrise time at 7 00. Chillier then yesterday. Twentyeight in allentown. Further to the north, 23 in
Expressway, closed until five or 5 30. Everybody push off here at 30th street and right back on. Live mass transit and bridges looking g karen and thomas back to you. 4 01. Search is on for driver who struck a woman in bucks county and left her in the street with life threatening injuries sky fox over the scene, hit and run happened right in front of the fire department, lets get out to steve keeley hoist working the scene in trevose this morning, steve. Reporter we can tell bob that the police have finished their investigation and heres a Vantage Point you didnt see from the sky fox shot, 45 miles an hour is the speed limit but where this happened, look, that driver was coming at your angle watching from home, and you can see they are coming ought on a curved hill, so, very, little chance to see anybody if they are walking in the middle of the street when you are doing 45 around a curve, coming down a hill which you cannot see over on the other side of the hill and right to the left o