Bill clinton responds to the shooting in orlando. Its all straight ahead on bloomberg best. Hello and welcome. This is bloomberg best, your weekly review of the most important is this News Analysis and interviews from Bloomberg Television around the world. This week began with a block west tech story as two of the industrys most Prominent Companies agreed to team up. It is merger monday, guys. Microsoft buying linkedin, valued at 26. 2 billion, 196 a share, a 50 premium to fridays closing price. You are iron up. You were totally shocked at the steel. Absolutely. One would have thought they would go after salesforce or a Traditional Software company, but this was truly out of left field. Microsoft, next to amazon, has the biggest operational cloud infrastructure, tons of data centers all over the world operating at very high efficiency at very low cost and used by all kinds of businesses around the world. Linkedin is very much a front in of a cloud application, something people actually
Senator murphy having come through the experience of newtown, ive had enough. It has been four years. Nothing has been done. Despite the fact that 90 of the American Public wants us to act. Mark senator murphy plea came as donald trump said he would meet with the National Rifle association of the terror watchlist and gun purchases. Nato says it sending a clear message to russia by increasing the number of troops in eastern europe. A Multinational Force will be deployed in poland and the three baltic nations, all of which border russia. From bloomberg world headquarters, im mark crumpton. Bloomberg west is next. Emily im emily chang and this is bloomberg west. Coming up, the fed holds Interest Rate unchanged amid bullets about the economic outlook. We will break down what it means for tech investors. More news from right hailing unicorns. They have all the details on the 28 billion valuation. The latest action from e3 the biggest gaming event of the year. Stay tuned for all the buzz aro
Funerals were held today for three of the five Police Officers killed in dallas, texas last week. Officers attended services for the man. The men. The pentagon confirmed the death of a militant leader responsible for orchestrating multiple attacks in fact them. In pakistan. He was killed in an airstrike. He planned the 2014 attack on a skill on a school that killed more than 130 children. Global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 20 x hundred analysts and analysts in more than 100 26 countries. Im mark crumpton. Emily im emily chang and this is bloomberg west. Prime day pasta triumphant second coming. Amazon said it was its biggest sale day ever. We discussed where they go from here. Plus google plays defense the tech giant fighting back against claims its piracy protection tool enables bootleggers. And moon shots under the microscope. We will ask laura ultrasecretive products projects eating developed in the shadows. Amazon prime day amazon said worldwide orders climbed more tha
Rights to the resources within its borders. China claims territorial rights to 80 of the south china sea. Global news 24 hours a day powered by 2600 analysts and more than 100 20 countries. Im mark crumpton. Emily im emily chang and this is bloomberg west. Amazon prime day a couple of hiccups right back memories of last years online reviews. Can they deliver on their global sales bonanza . Plus google underwater . Its not the only player looking to the seabed for faster service. We will dig deeper into the subsea cable industry. And the u. K. Unplugged . Writtens decision to checkout of the eu stokes fears of a major tech exodus . We will ask oracle ceo mark hurd for a fiction. First to our lead amazon prime lead. New numbers on the lack of success on amazon prime day. Sales were similar to last year. Sales in u. K. Are up 12 . Shares of the everything stored shares of the everything stored dipped earlier in the day on reports of lackluster numbers. The Second Annual oneday sale event
Ruled that Christine Lagarde will have to stand trial in the case stemming from her time as frances finance minister. She is accused of negligence that pave the way for massive corruption of government payout to a tycoon. Virginia senator tim kaine is emerging as the leading contender to join the democratic ticket as Hillary Clintons running mate according to two democrats who both cautioned that mrs. Clinton could still change directions. The announcement of her pick could come today during a Campaign Event in tampa, florida. It follows the just completed republican convention. Global news 24 hours a day powered by 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries, i am mark crumpton. Emily im emily chang and this is bloomberg west. Coming up, verizon can see the finish line in the race for yahoo details on the Telecom Giants 5 billion pitch. Pandora opens up. One million active listeners have tuned out. Founder and ceo Tim Westergren explains why he is not worried. And its not