As 10,000 to customers who voluntarily give up their seats on overbooked flights. Global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im alisa parenti. This is bloomberg. Bloomberg technology is next. Caroline im caroline hyde. This is Bloomberg Technology. Coming up, big tech declares the first quarter. We will crunch the numbers. Alphabet survives its ad platform backlash and unleashes a banner first quarter. We will highlight the numbers across the board. Microsoft concerns bubble to the surface. Shares drop from record highs after the thirdquarter report. We explain why. Popping inon shares extended trading. I want to bring you up where we are currently performing, up about 4 in trading after record highs hit on thursday. 3. 6 , the ecommerce giant reported a 23 increase in sales and a profit of 724 million in its quarterly report. The Cloud Services arm reported 43 increase in sales. Founder and Ceo Jeff Bezos highlighted the
As 10,000 to customers who voluntarily give up their seats on overbooked flights. Global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. Im alisa parenti. This is bloomberg. Bloomberg technology is next. Caroline im caroline hyde. This is Bloomberg Technology. Coming up, big tech declares the first quarter. We will crunch the numbers. Alphabet survives its ad platform backlash and unleashes a banner first quarter. We will highlight the numbers across the board. Microsoft concerns bubble to the surface. Shares drop from record highs after the thirdquarter report. We explain why. Popping inon shares extended trading. I want to bring you up where we are currently performing, up about 4 in trading after record highs hit on thursday. 3. 6 , the ecommerce giant reported a 23 increase in sales and a profit of 724 million in its quarterly report. The Cloud Services arm reported 43 increase in sales. Founder and Ceo Jeff Bezos highlighted the
You can see kind of a mixed bag. Didnt give me italy or spain, normally i get italy or spain when im on the desk here. Theres germany, france and the ftse of course which is the only one in the green. Tenyear note yield, there it is. 1. 738 is where we stand. Crude of course had the nice move and helped some of those oil related Energy Related companies of late. Lets call it down a little bit as you see but still above 50. Our road map this morning starts with microsoft shares. They are set to hit an alltime high after strong earnings on a quarter that was boosted by what they are doing in the cloud. Were going to dig into a report with jim. Shares of tobacco maker reynolds soaring on news that British American tobacco offering to buy what it doesnt already own in the company for about 47 billion. Ive got a lot of details on this one. Youll want to stay tuned. Well share them with you. And shares of mcdonalds moving higher. Well break down the quarter and talk about what it means for s
Good friday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im kaylee towshe. Rick santelli joins us as well. Carl quintanilla has the morning off. Executive editor kara swisher. Good morning to you too. How you doing . Im in d. C. , actually. All right. Lets get to our top story today. I think well work on karas audio there. Shares of microsoft at alltime highs this morning for the First Time Since 1999, the company beating the street on the top and bottom lines and showing Significant Growth if the cloud. Former microsoft ceo Steve Ballmer joining our friend op squawk box talking about the stellar quarter and a potential acquisition of twitter. I have never, ever, ever wanted to buy twitter myself. I mean, come on. Ive got a good life right now. I dont need to do that. Of course, mike, they asked the question because he is a large twitter shareholder, not just an outside tech observer. Interestingly on microsoft this morning, people are joking that it only took 17 years to get yours. If you were h