They are not governed by fifa. Tom i am learning every step of the way. Lets go to our top headlines. Vonnie everything that is or is to know you will know very soon. We will start with that story to u. S. Prosecutors wanted to know what role soccer played. Money pass through u. S. Banks including citigroup and jpmorgan. The banks have not been accused of wrongdoing. 14 people have been charged in the case. Nine of them officials with fifa. The japanese yen hit as 12 year low against the dollar today. The nikkei has risen for 10 days in a row. Once again, greece is sounding optimistic about a deal on bailout money. A government spokesman said that greece wants an agreement by sunday in a deal will be reached soon. The European Commission and the imf want greece to come up with a list of Economic Reforms before it gets money. They disagree. They say a deal is not close. Larry summers told bloomberg both sides will have to compromise. Sumemmers greece has got to get more serious and dete
There are concerns about cracking down on money transfers and that might dampen the demand for gambling. Analysts have come out and said maybe the concerns are overblown. We have seen these stocks in down across the board. They are sharply lower. Time now for our big story, deal or no deal. Top executives from comcast and Time Warner Cable are just finishing up on capitol hill, defending the 40 billion merger. Lawmakers are concerned about what it means for consumers and prices. Testifying against the deal before the House Judiciary Panel , cogent medications, rural media group, an american cable association. Yang yang joins us. What were the highlights . Clocking in at four hours, plenty of arguments on both sides. Understandably, it was david cohen, executive Vice President of comcast, who fielded most of the questions. He seems to be an old pro in these type of hearing. Before the senate last month. Theres only one question he could not answer, and that was whether or not the deal w
To film the amazing movie gravity. The familyfendi, grown the 90 yearold fashion brand. We are going to kick off with what everyone is talking about today, a special day for the Wonderful World of microblogging. We want to help celebrate the birthday of twitter. The site first launched eight years ago today. I am sure you have seen it all over, the Company Turns eight today after going public in november last year, they now have a 28 billion market dollar market cap and over 200 40 million viewers. Not that. Hundreds of millions of viewers continue to flock to twitter every month to experience moments in their lives and moments in the world. If only somebody could come up with a meaningful way to wish twitter a happy birthday. Turkey has blocked access to twitter. President or no one said that they remove tweets related to a government corruption scandal. This comes before crucial elections in turkey. Hethe Prime Minister says will wipe out twitter and digging up by its roots. That is
And inside fendi, the family growing the 90yearold fashion brand. We are going to kick off with what everyone is talking about today, a special day for the Wonderful World of microblogging. We want to help celebrate the birthday of twitter. The site first launched eight years ago today. I am sure you have seen it all over, the Company Turns eight today after going public in november last year, they now have a 28 billion market cap and over 240 million viewers. Not bad. Hundreds of millions of viewers continue to flock to twitter every month to experience moments in their lives and moments in the world. If only somebody could come up with a meaningful way to wish twitter a happy birthday. Turkey has blocked access to twitter. The Prime Minister said that they removed tweets related to a government corruption scandal. This comes before crucial elections in turkey. The Prime Minister says he will wipe out twitter and dig it up by its roots. That is not a very nice way to say happy birthda
John leger is said to be the leading candidate to become ceo of the combined company if sprint takes over tmobile. That is according to a person with knowledge of the matter. Sprint has been meeting with banks to make debt arrangements for a bit and is expected in june or july. More on this coming up. There is currently a ground stop at Los Angeles International airport due to computer issues. No word on what the issues are. Arriving flights can still land, but all departures are being held on the ground. The lax twitter accounts as there is no estimate of when this will be fixed. Fcc chairman tom wheeler said he has proposed rules to create internet fast lanes will not gut net neutrality. Use every power at his disposal if somebody tries to divide the internet into haves and havenots, after wheeler says he does not believe there is enough competition between broadband providers. The lead story, move fast widths stable infrastructure. Facebook is trying to become an even bigger player