In a blog post on monday, larry page wrote, quote, we like the name alphabet because it means a collection of letters that represent language, one of humanitys most important innovations, and is the core of how we indexed with google search. Joining me from san francisco, the coceo and executive editor. Brad stone is a Senior Writer for bloomberg businessweek. The cofounder, ceo, and editor in business insider. Im pleased to have them all here. Let me begin with henry in the studio. Why did they do this . Henry this is something a lot of people thought was long in coming. Google has been making massive investments in a lot of unrelated projects you mention, Life Sciences, self driving cars, things a lot of wall Street Investors look at as a huge waste of money with an uncertain payoff it looks like they are wasting capital. So wall street was eager to see real capital discipline. That is one. We are going to get to see what googles business looks like on its own and we will have a bett
My pleasure to introduce David Davenport, the author of rugged individualism dead or alive. 0 also Research Fellow at the Research Institute and previously the president of pepperdine university. David, thank you very much for coming to share this with us. [applause] thank you, george, and ladies and gentlemen, its a pleasure to be with you today. Occurred to me as we collected up yet one more spring rain and were competing with the warriors playoff game and i assume the giants and the dodgers game, i dont need to give a talk on rugged individualism. You are rugged for show up. Youre also brave to come and hear an academic talk of many good stories i think. Scholars and academics can one i heard recently was at a Scholarly Panel i was attending, and the moderator of the panel was a federal judge, and he said, you know, we have some of us during referring to himself who are as Teddy Roosevelt himself a rigged individual once said, were in the arena. Our face is covered with dust and blo
Cracks in the support systems on the regional will rail lines, back in the summer, this is market frankford line which is one of the two of septas biggest work horses, of course, market frankford and subway bring everybody into downtown. So yesterday, as a precaution, septa pulled 40 of the cars out of service, normal regular rush hour, runs with 144 cars and those cars, obviously back and forth, back and forth between 69th street and Frankford Transportation Center. Society ways this morning heres what you can expect they typically run trains every ten minutes, that gap is going to be a widened longer gaps between the trains. That will lead to platforms becoming overcrowded especially in some of the more populated platforms out here this west philadelphia, and of course, up here in northeast philadelphia, what septa will to is basically simultaneously , run the trains and they are also going to be run Shuttle Bus Services the same deal like they to on the Night Owl Service between 69t
Trump and wants to see his Healthcare Plan pass congress. Im behind him, see what he does, see what happens, i cant say anything negative until i see what happens. Reporter today the trump bill is in jeopardy. The big vote suddenly delayed as opponents ramp up their efforts to shut it down. In allentown, outside republican congressman charlie dents office, constituents demanded he save the Affordable Care act. Its not for the aca we wouldnt have Health Insurance sdp. Reporter they met with his staffers who said he is voting no. Another setback for President Trump. Hes expressed his concerns about it to the president and to the speaker and house leadership. That was very welcome news for us. And we want to thank the congressman for that. Reporter dent says hes concerned millions could lose coverage under the prutrump pla. Increasing costs for older americans. His office says he will vote no but its unclear when a vote might take place. Nbc 10 news. Delaware county, neighbors converged o
For 30 hours. So definitely black friday shopping this year is a mor thon not a sprint marathon not a sprint. A lot of energy out there considering the turkey eaten. Kind of impressive. Melissa, thanks. A lot of other people ditching the meal for shopping. Sonu wasu is at the best buy on camelback. Im hearing some people were in line for 18 hours. Is thats right. A lot of time in line. Theyre trading time with family and turkeys for tvs and all kinds of good deals out here. Stake a look at these take a look at these checkout lines. Theyre to the back of the store. Looks like an amusement park. Theyre moving fast. A lot of people out here, full bellies and soon to be empty wallets. Some of the hottest deals are a seems is 99. That one 199. That one is on a lot of wish lists. Masses of people rushing in to get to the tvs. The lines didnt start forming until about an hour before the store opened. And organized chaos there because store owners tell me that they were giving out tickets to p