The companys intelligent cloud bids that including azure, windows, posted 13. 4 billion in revenue. That beats consensus by a bit. Azure slowing up a bit. Ceo had a question about that and the companys growth on last nights call asked whether or not he is concerned about it my own approach to this would be not to worry as much about shortterm whether or not it is the growth number, im not trying to match an artificial number i think the world will come out of this and it will be stronger when we invest in this space. An ad spending slow down, and they closed that acquisition four years ago right now the Gaming Business had record engagement. People stayed home and they played they call itd a breakthrough quarter for gaming, guys yeah, xbox and surface two were nice surprises. The other big earnings move in tech is twitter. Lets get to Julia Boorstin on that yeah, twitter grew, growing their monetizing value from the year earlier quarter the addition of 20 far exceeded expectations and
President trump has no grand strategy to keep america safe, and his message to critics who call him a liar. Sound and fury. The mystery behind a huge boom in the use of illegal fireworks in americas cities. Why many people are losing sleep over it, literally. First here is todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Getting back to normality is going to be a gradual stepbystep process and not throwing caution to the wind. President trump held a Campaign Rally in arizona as cases of coronavirus spike there. Coronavirus, right . Kung flu. The fbi announced that the noose found in Bubba Wallaces garage was actually there for months and was not a hate crime. It was a noose. It was a noose, whether it was tied in 2019 or whatever, it was a noose. One of the officers involved in the deadly shooting of Breonna Taylor has been fired. Taylor was killed in her kentucky home. Funeral services were held in atlanta for Rayshard Brooks, the man shot and killed by Atlanta Police officer. Rayshard br
Welcome to the inaugural writers hour at James Madison university. We are glad you are here. I want to thank the provost, the first person that i post about in this series. The everyone at the communications further help promoting the event. The we wouldnt be here so thanks to you. We also wouldnt be without john grisham. He should have his own show. Before i met him i knew he was generous with his time and money and you cant go three days and i got to know him most would agree he was a gravedigger and never met someone that for their fame so blithely. Hes a regular person. But of course he is a famous writer. In one place that sold a quarter of a billion bucks and another place he sold 300 million so at some point you throw in the towel and say a boatload. This is academia there is no keeping it loose but here we are on stage in academia. Weve probably got john on the cool side of the mountain where he belongs and i hope he becomes a regular visitor. Please welcome our friend and bene
Comeback this summer. The Election Campaign getting back to Something Like normal. Its all part of the great opening up which continues rapidly. Georgia was the first. New numbers show that it has bounced back very very quickly. Its economy has. New jersey has lifted the stayathome order. New york city subways have seen a considerable increase in ridership. And the money from the government is finally flowing to business, and get this, Mortgage Applications are surging, too. Add it all up and it looks like a much stronger summer economy. That outlook helping the market. Caution, however. The Federal Reserve releases its first Economic Forecast in six months this afternoon. That could really move stock prices. But right now, we are seeing a Little Movement to the upside, up 50 for the dow, up about, what, 12 for the s p, and another solid gain for the nasdaq, up almost 1 again and back above 10,000. Its great to be back. My thanks to ashley, susan and lauren for working so hard while i
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