Riders heading out of warm springs and fremont. That is a check of the traffic. Lets check in on the forecast. It is nice and clear as far as fog. Visibility is doing well. What we are noticing, high clouds, and what has done is help keep temperatures pretty comfortable this way. We didnt drop too low at all thanks to the cloud coverage. The clouds will clear this afternoon which means a warm afternoon is in store for all of us. Heres a great view of the bay bridge. 54 degrees in San Francisco, 46 in livermore, we have no 30s in sight. That is unusual for this hour. Also no fog is unusual. It is all thanks to this. We have clouds coming from a storm in the pacific northwest. That will keep temperatures warm this morning. It will clear up by this afternoon and temperatures are in for a significant warmup, not just today but friday into the weekend. Bad news for bay area drivers, prices on the pump are on the rise again. Reporter thats right. During the winter, you are supposed to see ga
Existing musician or band. He would try to create Something Like that. When he decided he didnt want to be a film composer anymore he instead thought wouldnt it be interesting if you were able to walk into a record store, and when you knew he had an artist or band you liked but he didnt know a lot of other artists in the world or new artist, if you could walk up to a kiosk in that store and punched in the name of a band you liked and put on the headphones and they kiosk could tell you were play for you samples of song some other bands you might also like because you imitated you like to particular band or artist. That was how the music genome project was born. They catalog all these songs, thousands and thousands of songs. There are now over a million and a half in the genome. All those songs have different musical attributes. They have been catalogued by musicologists, many musicians with music degrees. They will catalog a song based on anywhere from 150 to 450 different after beats.
Host and joining us this week on the communicators is steve bene, general counsel for pandora media. Mr. Bene, how did pandora get started . Guest well, first, thanks for having me. This is a tremendous honor, to be included on the show. How did pandora get started . Back in 2000 our founder, tim westergren, had the idea because he had been a composer for film. And when he went and talked to directors that he was supposed to compose film scores for, they would always tell him they wanted something that sounded like this meets that, or, you know, some kind of sound that they had in mind that they would reference off an existing musician or a band, and he would go back and try to create Something Like that. And when he decided that he didnt want to be a music, film composer anymore, he instead thought, wow, wont it be interesting if you were able to walk into a record store, and when you knew you had an artist or a band that you liked, but you didnt know a lot of new artists that were br
Its down 1 . Shanghai is down close to 1 . We are getting news out of reuters japan manufactures may cut profit targets. That is certainly a story that the market is watching. Heres whats happening in europe. The ftse 100 in the uk is the only average that is positive although only by about. 10 . Good morning. Well get to politics in just a minute. Starbucks missed forecast for the Third Straight quarter. Customers making fewers visits. Earnings matched estimates, but revenues fell short. Changes to the Loyalty Program and happy hour weighed sales. Also cutting annual sales growth target to 10 . Chipotle experienced a drop. Free food and Safety Measures failed to bring consumers following several food born illnesses last year. Dow components is set to report this hour. Well bring you the numbers. Thats about 6 30 a. M. In about a half an hour. All right. Scott. Good to see you. Thank you for being open to the early wakeup call. Get through this together. If we were up late. No better w
Percent and the dow is up little higher and the nasdaq is up by 1 . Question was whether traders would see a selloff before the president s day to day weekend but we are Holding Onto Gains as we go into the holiday weekend. Lets look at sector performance. You can see for the most part its a broadbased rally. The s p 500 10 sectors are in the green but utilities are down a little. Financials are the biggest leader up by 3. 25 and they were the biggest laggard yesterday. 2. 4 ials are up by 25 and energy is up. Some of the financial stocks are in rally mode. Bank of america and citigroup yesterday fell 6. 5 . They are now up by 5 . Is up 7 off of that news as well as wells fargo. Lets take a look at energy. With energy, crude oil is up 10 at 6 . It had been up about 11 but we are now up near the 29 per barrel mark, near session highs. This is the biggest jump since january. Yesterday, it fell to the lowest hint of days. At equity struck a dive yesterday. Safe havens are going the other