Own Rory Cellan Jones who will also steer us through the world of flying cars. Flying pigs, more like it. And how do you like to read . Ebook sales in the uk have fallen 17 as readers bring back the book do you tap or turn . And why . Let us know. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Welcome to the programme. We start in Silicon Valley where three of the biggest names in technology have been reporting their numbers for the last three months. We are talking about the tech titans google, amazon and microsoft. And it seems they are just getting bigger and bigger. The numbers are jaw dropping, take a look. Dominates online advertising. But its still managing to grow very fast. Googles Parent Company alphabet saw revenues jump by almost a quarter on last year. Up 22 to 24. 8 billion. Remember this Isjust 3mths Worth of sales. 5. 5 billion of that was profit. Its the same story with amazon. Its one of the worlds biggest retailers it dominates Online Shopping and still saw sales grow over 22 to a
Thank you. Sometimes people need reminding that its friday. Jon right. Stephen they go, is this thursday or is this friday . You go, its friday, and suddenly theyre very excited. Its friday, everybody. Thank you for being here. Thats obvious. Thats obvious. Youre welcome, by the way. This being friday, tomorrow brings us to the end of drumples first 100 days in office. After this after this, we cannot bring him back to the store without a receipt. Slightly damaged goods. laughter maybe the president hasnt gotten a lot done in his first 100 days, but you know who has . America. All right. Congratulations. All right. applause you did it, all right. First of all, we survived a Trump Presidency for 100 days. All right cheers and applause i dont know about you jon we did it. We made it. Stephen i did not have that in the office pool. We really surprised me in a lot of ways. America has never been better in my opinion. La la land and moonlight won best picture thats twice the best picture in
Its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, stephen welcomes tom hanks. And Anna Baryshnikov. Featuring jon batiste and stay human. And now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, its Stephen Colbert stephen thanks, everybody hey, jon. Good to see you. Thanks, everybody. Welcome to the late show. Im your host, Stephen Colbert. It is friday. Happy weekend, everybody. cheers and applause thank you. Sometimes people need reminding that its friday. Jon right. Stephen they go, is this thursday or is this friday . You go, its friday, and suddenly theyre very excited. Its friday, everybody. Thank you for being here. Thats obvious. Thats obvious. Youre welcome, by the way. This being friday, tomorrow brings us to the end of drumples first 100 days in office. After this after this, we cannot bring him back to the store without a receipt. Slightly damaged goods. laughter maybe the president hasnt gotten a lot done in his first 100 days, but you know who has . America. A
Georgetown. Some distinguished in fact, this audience is pretty much 100 distinguished, as i look out. Quite an impressive audience. Thank you very much for coming. A few brief safety and security announcements. I am your designated Safety Officer in case of an emergency. Youll find the exits are back behind you. And youll go down one floor, exit down through the stairwell and well meet around the corner at National Geographic which is just down left and left should we have to so today together with the japan center for Economic Research is delighted to host this discussion with three of japans leading lawmakers, statesmen with particular expertise in National Security and to talk about our alliance and the years ahead. Ill introduce the other members of the panel in a moment. But let me first mention they are all here in washington for the week as part of whats known as golden week, and to join discussions here and around town under the mount my friend ue which runs and many are parti
Georgetown. Some distinguished in fact, this audience is pretty much 100 distinguished, as i look out. Quite an impressive audience. Thank you very much for coming. A few brief safety and security announcements. I am your designated Safety Officer in case of an emergency. Youll find the exits are back behind you. And youll go down one floor, exit down through the stairwell and well meet around the corner at National Geographic which is just down left and left should we have to so today together with the japan center for Economic Research is delighted to host this discussion with three of japans leading lawmakers, statesmen with particular expertise in National Security and to talk about our alliance and the years ahead. Ill introduce the other members of the panel in a moment. But let me first mention they are all here in washington for the week as part of whats known as golden week, and to join discussions here and around town under the mount my friend ue which runs and many are parti