Welcome to countdown. I am anna edwards. I am joined by mark barton and manus cranny. Lets start with facebook. Yes. Profits are up. Sales up. Average ad prices up. Shares up. Average monthly users up. That is all you need to know. Up, up, up. Shares, record high, afterhours high. Monthly active users. Fantastic. Watching . What are you to call themselves the 3d experience country company. 20 of revenues in 3d. Take a car and great and 3d image. Take a kitchen and create a 3d image. Yes. Us talk about the numbers. I can tell you revenue rises by 7 . Plan another acquisition. The plan is to double the revenue in the past five years. The data by acquisition. Engineering software. Exciting. That business has been under a bit of rusher in europe. These are the images you are seeing on the screen. They are doing another acquisition at 570 million euros. It is the Second Quarter numbers. I will be talking to the chairman a little bit later. Wonder what he has to to say about currency perhaps
Firing of rockets. An increasing number of International Airlines are canceling their flights to israels main airport after a rockets land rocket landed nearby. Welcome back. The first bodies recovered from that downed Malaysian Airlines plane are on their way to the netherlands for identification. The planes carrying the bodies flew out of the ukrainian city earlier this wednesday. Britain says it has received the two black box flight recorders. The netherlands is holding a day of mourning this wednesday for the 298 killed in that crash, 193 of whom were dutch. Its intelligence Officials Say prorussian rebels shot down the intelligence Officials Say prorussian rebels shot down the jet in error. It is a very slow and delicate process, removing the bodies from the refrigerated train wagons where they currently are, placing them into new body bags, placing them into wooden coffins, and then sending them on their way to the netherlands. Weve seen the dutch investigators, the forensic team
Office. He says they were meant to be money savers while critics say hes trying to sabotage the november election. Speaking of the election, you know were talking last night. Former Vice President joe biden officially accepted his partys nomination. Heres part of what he had to say. This is our moment. This is our mission. May history be able to say that the end of this chapter of american darkness began here, tonight. As love and hope and light join in the battle for the soul of the nation. And this is a battle we will win and well do it together. I promise you. More on the dnc in a minute. I want to start this morning on this mornings hearing. My colleague Leigh Ann Caldwell is following the action on capitol hill. Geoff bennett is at the white house. Hes been breaking news all right, left and center on developments around the post office because it is not just about the election. It matters to every single american. Leigh ann, to you first. The chairman of the committee is ron johns
Memo. I go to note for political stuff. Of course, i read the new york times. I belong to an anthropologist listserv because i care more about neanderthal than anything. It is very quirky in strange and i love my twitter feet. It has a lot of people, 20 times more than i do, but it is really good. I want to thank the kierkegaard of our media age for her wealth of knowledge tonight. Thank you so much. Thank you, so much. And i would like to thank both of you for an entertaining and fun evening. Let me also note that there is a book signing at the door as you leave. And the book is great, and i highly recommend it, and it is funny. National captioning institute] during his weekly radio address president obama talked about the fiscal cliff agreement reached by congress. And what needs to be done to address the deficit. House ways and Means Committee chairman dave camp delivered the republican address. Hi, everybody. Over the past year as i traveled across the country campaigning for this
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