Renegotiations of the broke off last week. Global news, 24 hours a day, powered by our 2400 journalists news bureaus150 around the world. For your first word, i am mark crumpton. Emily i am emily chang and this is bloomberg west. Coming up, jack dorsey in the spotlight with Quarterly Results showing it user declines for the first time ever. Despite a huge earning miss, investors focused on strong numbers. And delivery amazon also enjoying an afterhours rally on word of billiondollar Share Buyback. We will have the latest. Emily first, to our lead twitter fourthquarter earnings. Shares dropping and then rebounding. The last quarter, monthly active users remained flat. Monthly active users excluding active service messenger platforms actually declined from 307 million to 305 million in q4. Moments ago, jack dorsey added an extra detail that twitter users ticked back up in january, sending the stock back up. Still, revenue numbers fell short of estimates. To adrop from 595 million lower n
U. S. Says they being crashed in china could be four times worst then the u. S. Received 3. 5 trillion in equity and that would have implications for the rest of the world. There was a bad lines from Bloomberg News powered by over 2400 journalists in 150 euros. Hong kong closed for lunch but here is how they are trading in the morning session. A start to the Lunar New Year for hong kong since 1994. This is the picture we are seeing. Selloff is continuing. Time now for bloomberg west. Emily this is bloomberg west. Jack dorsey in the spotlight showing decline for the first time ever. Know ahares popping even huge earnings. And amazon also enjoying an afterhours rally on word of billiondollar Share Buyback. We break down the numbers. Emily first, to our lead twitter fourthquarter earnings. Shares dropping and then rebounding. The last quarter, monthly active users remained flat. Monthly active users excluding active service messenger platforms actually declined from 307 million to 305 mil
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Challenges remain of people becoming comfortable being passengers and their own car. Mayaps the greatest hurdle be a Regulatory Environment of a patchwork of state and federal laws unable to keep pace with the evolving technologies. Everything from Driver Assist functions like lane departure warnings to completely anonymous Autonomous Vehicles mobilitysform profoundly affecting issues. Since 2014, thousands of americans have lost their lives to car accidents. More than 90 of these accidents are linked to human error, driver choices, intoxication, and distraction. Automated vehicles have the potential to reduce the number genetically. Unlike human drivers, Automated Vehicles do not get tired, drunk, or distracted. Combating drunk driving has been a particular priority for me. Carolina program is one successful program. Im eager to hear how Autonomous Vehicles can further reduce accidents due to drunk driving. Promise tovehicles improve the quality of life for the disabled community. Pop
Climate change. The big talks ahead in paris. First to our lead. For the second time in two years, google is in the u. S. Governments crosshairs. The federal trade commission is looking into whether google restricted competitors access to android. Just last month, i asked the ftc commissioner whether the agency will be taking another look at the company followed the Search Engine investigation. Take a listen as to what she had to say. I was not part of that decisionmaking process. I think it would be highly unusual for the commission to go back and reopened that case. Emily to be clear, i was asking about a different investigation, but i said should the u. S. Government take another look at google . Joining me from washington, bloombergs team leader for financial crimes. What do you make of the commissioners comments . Does this new potential investigation signify a change in attitude by the government towards google . Sarah it was a surprise to everyone to learn that the ftc is taking