The companys intelligent cloud bids that including azure, windows, posted 13. 4 billion in revenue. That beats consensus by a bit. Azure slowing up a bit. Ceo had a question about that and the companys growth on last nights call asked whether or not he is concerned about it my own approach to this would be not to worry as much about shortterm whether or not it is the growth number, im not trying to match an artificial number i think the world will come out of this and it will be stronger when we invest in this space. An ad spending slow down, and they closed that acquisition four years ago right now the Gaming Business had record engagement. People stayed home and they played they call itd a breakthrough quarter for gaming, guys yeah, xbox and surface two were nice surprises. The other big earnings move in tech is twitter. Lets get to Julia Boorstin on that yeah, twitter grew, growing their monetizing value from the year earlier quarter the addition of 20 far exceeded expectations and
Had his own office after his 2008 secs from conviction well discuss that its time to boost your news i. Q. President trump has long made trade a major stumping point of his administration and according to u. S. Trade Representatives Office american trade to the u. K. Was at a surplus of about 5 and a half 1000000000. 00 and today both countries are heading back to the negotiating table to hammer out what a new trade pact would look like in a post world coming just at the end of this year so for more on all of this we are being joined by our panel George Galloway former u. K. M. P. And of course our president s one cohost boom bust or a gentleman george i would like to start with you some 300. 00 trade personnel were on the 1st round of video chat the u. S. Trade representative robert lighthouses are announced a number of objectives last year which included full access for u. S. Agricultural products it was very. Beg not sure what that means and reduced tariffs for u. S. Manufactured go
And background on all our top stories on the bbc news website. Log on to bbc. Com news or download the bbc news app. Now live to singapore for Asia Business report. Facebook underfire. Facebook under fire. Us facebook underfire. Us politicians label the social network delusional and not deserving ofjust over its cryptocurrency initiative. Resignation from the imf, her decision to become the head of the European Central bank. Good morning, asia, hello world. Its a wednesday. That you could join us foran its a wednesday. That you could join us for an exciting addition of Asia Business report. I am rico his own. Lets start off with facebook, the social media giants plans for cryptocurrency has come under further attack by us politicians. The latest comments follow criticism by president trump, the treasury secretary Steven Mnuchin, and jerome powell. Appearing in front of the Senate Banking committee, facebook executive david marcus defended this project. I believe that if america doesnt
Chasing after a car. Colin paterson, bbc news. Time for a look at the weather. Still pretty hot in the south but a large chunk of the uk is cloudy at the moment with some wet weather on the moment with some wet weather on the way. There is rain in the forecast today, overnight and tomorrow as well. We have a couple of weather systems coming our way, one on friday so a couple to get through by the end of the week. This is the forecast right now, a weather front moving into scotland and northern ireland. The heaviest of the rain in the north west of scotla nd the rain in the north west of scotland at the minute. We think it is just Clearing Northern scotland at the minute. We think it isjust Clearing Northern ireland right about now commit the heaviest of the rain. Elsewhere some bright weather and then overnight the cold front weather and then overnight the cold fro nt m oves weather and then overnight the cold front moves across the uk. I say cool because in the south of the country st
In the continuation of the 8th week of the messanjan premier league, pikan went to Shahid Dastgerdi stadium and succeeded in defeating the host with pereiras single goal in the 59th minute. Lucian and shima , elhamis students, have 11 points with this result and are ranked 8th in the table. With the same six points, we stood in the twelfth place. Alhamdulillah, what we wanted was three the point of the game was to reach pikan team. It is a very good team. I said that it is a very physical and brave team. We also had very good chances on the opponents goal. I must say that their goal worked really well. We have no choice but to work harder and this will definitely happen, we will try harder, we will work harder and these conditions will change. In the other game, golhar and the fans had an interesting confrontation in sirjan with three goals scored. Saeed sarkhizan in the 20th and 47th minutes and Roberto Torres in the 68th minute for golghar and karim eslami in the 22nd minute and Amin