Moon, super big and superbright. The first time in 15 years of bloomberg has synced up with a supermoon and a total lunar eclipse. Global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts. This is bloomberg. Emily im emily chang. This is bloomberg technology. Coming up, facebook, hit and miss. Our look at fourthquarter earnings for the social media giant and the most concerning metric or wall street. For wall street. How microsofts push into the blockchain and the cloud added to its bottom line added to the its bottom line this quarter. How microsofts push into the as Travis Kalanick and larry page get ready to testified. Facebook reports its fourthquarter earnings results. Here are the highlights. Revenue coming in at nearly 13 billion, beating the highest estimates from analysts. Monthly active users totaling 2. 1 3 billion, while daily active users came in at 1. 4 billion, slightly below forecast, one of the most important metrics that wall street cares about.
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First the headlines, Rupert Murdoch is putting his son to succeed him as the head of his media empire. Ashas named his oldest son the nonexecutive chairman of news corp. And 21st century fox. Embroiledr son james, in the phone hacking scandal, will become cochief operating officer. Twitter has filed in turkey to have the sixday ban lifted. Of refusingaccused to comply with court orders to remove posts about government corruption. Twitter said it never received those orders. It is a war of words between Michael Arrington and google. He is certain google accessed his Gmail Account after he broke a major story on the company a few years ago. Who will denies the allegation. We have never done this and it is hard to imagine circumstances where we would investigate a leak in that way. Sure is a crushed down about 10 . Crushed downcandy about 10 . Is jpmorgan the lead underwriter on this deal weak and not able to support the price of the market . We did talk to the ceo of. Ing digital he comm
A start up, fieldglass, and sap has spent more than 12 billion as it tries to become a bigger player in the cloud market. Amazon is cutting prices for its cloud services. Prices will fall as much as 61 . This comes after google cut prices on its cloud products yesterday, and amazon introduced amazon workspaces. And filing for an ipo, a company that helps measure spending, tubemogul. They posted a loss of nearly 7 million, but they expect to raise 75 million. And to the lead story of the day, candy crush maker king with their biggest decline for a newly listed u. S. Company in more than four months. 15this drop comes despite the 15 . Fact that king was actually priced at a discount to some of its competitors, like zynga. We spoke with the king ceo Riccardo Zacconi earlier this morning about whether the shares were just priced too high. My focus is not on the prize at this second. Our synergy is longterm synergy. By focusing on the longterm, we create shareholder value. I think we are in
A check of the headlines. German giant sap is pushing deeper into Cloud Computing with lass, and sapieldg has spent more than 12 billion as it tries to become a bigger player in the cloud market. Amazon is cutting prices for its cloud services. Prices will fall as much as 61 . This comes after google cut prices on its cloud products yesterday, and amazon has amazon workspaces. And filing for an ipo, a company that helps measure spending, tubemogul. They posted a loss of nearly 7 million, but they expect to raise 75 million. And to the lead story of the withcandy crush maker king their biggest decline for a newly listed u. S. Company in more than four months. This drop comes despite the fact that king was actually priced at a discount to some of its competitors, like zynga. Ceopoke with the King Riccardo zacconi earlier this morning about whether the shares were just priced too high. Prizefocus is not on the at this second. Longterm synergy. By focusing on the longterm, we create shareh