Gains and we begin with earnings from microsoft which added to the string of strong results reported by other dow components. Microsofts quarter was powered by the new cloud business. And not by the product it may be guess kn windows. The ceo has shifted the focus amid the slowing pc sales. The dow component earned 69 cents a share, a full 11 cents better than estimates. Revenue also topped expectation although annual revenue fell n since 2009. Cal 2015. Still investors liked what they saw, sending shares higher in initial after hotrading. Josh lipton has more. Reporter 6. 7 billion that was the big number in microsoft atest earni reported for its socalled intelligent cloud segment. Kurt mctern of evercore whd tha important because this is a critical part of microsofts strategy going forward. It was also weaker than expected in the Third Quarter so investors wanded to see this wanted to see this bounce back. He notes that revenue from ajer, the Cloud Computing platform surged 102 . Mea
Its eighth straight day of gains and we begin with earnings from microsoft which added to the string of strong results reported by other dow components. Microsofts quarter was powered by the new cloud business. And not by the product it may be guess kn windows. The ceo has shifted the focus amid the slowing pc sales. The dow component earned 69 cents a share, a full 11 cents better than estimates. Revenue also topped expectation although annual revenue fell n since 2009. Cal 2015. Still investors liked what they saw, sending shares higher in initial after hotrading. Josh lipton has more. Reporter 6. 7 billion that was the big number in microsoft atest earni reported for its socalled intelligent cloud segment. Kurt mctern of evercore whd tha important because this is a critical part of microsofts strategy going forward. It was also weaker than expected in the Third Quarter so investors wanded to see this wanted to see this bounce back. He notes that revenue from ajer, the Cloud Computin
Chiefs in an effort to halt a sweeping corruption investigation and install a conservative government. Well get the latest. Then 40,000 verizon workers enter their sixth week on strike in one of the biggest u. S. Labor strikes in years. We are on day 43 of our strike against verizon. It is about the 39,000 workers on strike and our families, but really about so much more than that. This about working people fighting back and saying what verizon is doing is not right and we are going to take a stand to protect our jobs. Amy and then activists in peekskill, new york, have launched a blockade to stop a planned gas pipeline being built near the Indian Point Nuclear plant. Were directly in the path of the pipeline at an a active construction site so when workers come this morning, they will find o our home in the mide of their worksite and will not be able to do construction. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goo
Chiefs in an effort to halt a sweeping corruption investigation and install a conservative government. Well get the latest. Then 40,000 verizon workers enter their sixth week on strike in one of the biggest u. S. Labor strikes in years. We are on day 43 of our strike against verizon. It is about the 39,000 workers on strike and our families, but really about so much more than that. This about working people fighting back and saying what verizon is doing is not right and we are going to take a stand to protect our jobs. Amy and then activists in peekskill, new york, have launched a blockade to stop a planned gas pipeline being built near the Indian Point Nuclear plant. Were directly in the path of the pipeline at an a active construction site so when workers come this morning, they will find o our home in the mide of their worksite and will not be able to do construction. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goo
Forces found passenger fou belongings and parts of the doomed aircraft in theom Mediterranean Sea. Now tedhey found that debris about 180 miles off the coast c of egypt. Maureen umeh is following u these latest developments. Elopm. She joins us now. Us n mo good morning. Morni good morning. Goo was it terrorism or mechanicaloa failure . That is the question this morning following theni crash of egyptair flight 804 fl4 into the Mediterranean Seaea yesterday. This as a frantic search for se the planes black box continues. Coinues. Search aircraft scan the seashes in the eastern mediterraneaniter as ships below do the same. With Egyptian Military saying this morning that debris hasebs been found including passengers belongings. Ongi family members of the missing ms wait for an update fearing the worst. I am very tired. Tired reporter greek radar data suggests that the airbus au 320 made erratic movements mem sea. Sea. And egyptian officials who are o heading up the investigationnvei are i