The top 10 places to work list but docusign makes the glassdoor list. We talk to the ceo about what makes the company unique. A selfdriving a semi makes its first run. Silicon valley is listening to your most intimate moments, the first of a bloomberg piece of how the craze left users vulnerable. It was one of the most read stories on wednesday. I spoke to journalists about the story, including the devices and use of contractors to transcribe intimate conversations. We spoke to guests in San Francisco and new york. We spoke to dozens of transcribers from everywhere from ireland to india and they had ethical quandaries with this service. They were eavesdropping on a lot of customers to improve the systems speech recognition capabilities. The fascinating thing was that profound disparity you mentioned. A lot of contractors felt this was a dubious, but a lot of folks we talked to did not think it was such an issue. They saw this as a way of improving Quality Assurance. One executive at ap
Most expect it to end in the Fourth Quarter of this year. If that does not happen, that could really take a chunk out of the rally and make 2020 difficult. Plus, trade. That agreement still has to be signed. President trump indicated that could happen over the next few weeks. Then we are looking at phase 2. 2020 could bring some new risks that are not priced in, at least not now. Kurt certainly something we will be following. Thanks to bloombergs Abigail Doolittle for that update. The final stretch of the Holiday Season and shipping deadlines loom. Amazon cites a decline in fedexs delivery performance. Here with us, spencer, who covers amazon for bloomberg news. What is happening here . Spencer you basically have a big fat vote of noconfidence in fedex from amazon as we enter the Holiday Season. These are the dates that people decide, will i buy this online and hope it gets here in time for christmas or not. Amazon has narrowed the amount of time people are willing to make that call. A
2019, the year in review. Im content moderation, acquisitions, data privacy to plans for cryptocurrency, facebook felt it all. What is there strategy going into 2020 . First to our top story. Shares of micron are up. This is after they reported betterthanexpected top and bottom line numbers for their fiscal firstquarter and the forecast strong numbers for the current quarter. Gross margin is something i have been eyeballing all day. They are coming in more than 27 . Ludlow is your to break in the numbers. What is your key takeaway from this report . At the optimism you see across wall street that the memory chip market is going to rebound. Probably at some point in the second half of next year. When we talk about dynamic random access memory, we are talking about the memory chips that go into computers. Trips tradesse like a commodity. They have been falling as new Technology Comes into the market and capacity comes in. Look at the blue line which is micron shares. They have been gaini
Libre is set to debut next year. We will hear how the head of libre and the facebook coo touted this big promise. But first our top story. Recordbreaking sales for amazon. Posted itsrce giant largest advance on thursday. Amazon didnt release specific sales figures, but they say it backs up broader reports that Online Shopping picked up this year. I want to bring in spencer and darren baker. Spenser, talk to me about what we learned from amazon this holiday season. In terms of their statement, we didnt learn much. Every year is another record for amazon. What we did see was that this was the first year, one that they rolled out their oneday shipping pledge on millions of items, and that they handled so much of their own delivery on their own. I think a little bit of the boost is that amazon got through christmas without any disasters. Everyone was wondering how they would do this year. And darren, every year is a record year. Is amazon just riding the wave of ecommerce or are they doing
In a globalax even push fails. And strong debut. Shares of alibaba began trading kong and the first aboveg day, more than 6 listing price. Our top story this week, uber and its uncertain future in looked. The citys Transit Authority refused to grant the ride a new license on monday. The reason, rider safety. Regulator said uber adequately verify drivers identities. Swiftly responded, saying the decision was wrong. He has said safety is the priority. Uber will appeal the ruling. London mayor says much more with regards to safety. Keen for it to be a hotbed of innovation, for new businesses, but youve got to rules. Y the what is clear is ubers passenger safety has been compromised. Withth more, i caught up eric newcomber. I asked him if the uber app or the technology itself allowed all the drivers not to be verified. Is whethere here drivers in london were able to platform even though they werent sort of the right licensed. Properly and, you know, the city of london says were talking abo