Its weird but the closing high for the s p this year, the year 2016 is, in fact, 2016. 201671 which is about a point away as we see the index. Stocks near session highs and maybe not surprising. He established himself in the tech start up when he cofounded paypal in the late 90s. Since then another of other start ups and he was a chairman of yelp and now hes in austin as south by southwest gets underway. He joins us now. Max always great to have you. Thank you lets start off talking about the environment for investment for Early Stage Companies. Youre an investor on top of being an entrepreneur yourself. Where are you putting your money these days whether its Early Stage Companies that are focused on enterprise problems, whether its consumer mobile requesteds, all of the above, are you actively investing in this environment . I try to look at big ideas that have bigger impact worldwide and the trend has been increasing people trying to solve really big problems. Its an exciting time to
Ben bernanke will be overseas. Taking us overseas to the investigation of what brought down a russian charter jet and now its looking like a bomb may have been the cause. We have the details on that story in just a bit but before that well go over to michelle with a round up of the days top business headlines. Thank you. Expedia is buying home away for 3. 9 billion in cash and stock. This is the largest acquisition and come ace year after they bought orbitz. It values the socalled alternative lodging market at 100 billion and the home away deal will help it directly compete with airbnb. The chairman will join us first on cnbc 8 30 a. M. Eastern time to talk about the deal. The fed vice chairman says the central bank may be closer than thought to the inflation target. The 2 target may be hit once oil prices stabilize and the dollar starts rising. When is that going to be . Kraft heinz is stepping up its cost cuts. Announcing plans to close 7 factories and lay off 2600 employees in north
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Fulltime job out of parttime work. The digital revolution has created problems that need solving, like cyber threats, and data organization. The solution . Trained employees. Mary thompson traveled to companies who are looking for these new types of workers and shell tell us where the jobs are and what skills are needed. Reporter a painter since childhood, 29yearold Mariah Walton said her art makes her good at her job. I have a mental image of everything in my brain, and i feel like ive actually been a really good strength in joining them. Reporter always an artist, once a meteorologist, walton is now a Data Scientist at the networking site linkeds in. Her job is to sift through the files generated by clicks on linkedins website. Its helping the firm serve its clients and advertisers better. But its not just like big data, all industries do it these days. Putting a premium on workers like walton. Data field is actually very sexy, and its a hot demand. Its super hard to find right talen
Fulltime job out of parttime work. The digital revolution has created problems that need solving, like cyber threats, and data organization. The solution . Trained employees. Mary thompson traveled to companies who are looking for these new types of workers and shell tell us where the jobs are and what skills are needed. Reporter a painter since childhood, 29yearold Mariah Walton said her art makes her good at her job. I have a mental image of everything in my brain, and i feel like ive actually been a really good strength in joining them. Reporter always an artist, once a meteorologist, walton is now a Data Scientist at the networking site linkeds in. Her job is to sift through the files generated by clicks on linkedins website. Its helping the firm serve its clients and advertisers better. But its not just like big data, all industries do it these days. Putting a premium on workers like walton. Data field is actually very sexy, and its a hot demand. Its super hard to find right talen