First, our top story, google agreeing to buy fitbit for 2. 1 billion in cash. The fitness tracking Device Company jumped on the news. I am joined by garrett divina. What does fitbit know about hardware and software and health that google doesnt . Gerrit a good question. Google has been rumored about talking about a smartwatch. But the operating system has been a collapsed and is not as has been eclipsed by competitors. And is not as popular as android. What they are doing is saying lets buy fitbit and build our business from that. Taylor fitbit is seeing its third annual year of sales decline. Why is it an attractive choice . Gerrit its one of the few choices, im not sure attractiveness is what is going on. As you said, they have been in decline, they struggled as apple came out with the apple watch and can do things a lot of fitbit devices cannot. The price was a premium for fitbit that it is still cheaper than when it went public several years ago. It is a small amount of money for g
In a at its lowest point quarter of a century. David is watching this carnage. David painful. It is a painful day for investors. On 1 trillionn of market cap that will be wiped off the value of asian stocks just this morning. We do have another big asian market opening up this hour, india. It says a lot. It says a lot when the outperform or is down 1. 7 . Is downutperformer 1. 7 . Shanghai composite erasing its gains on the year. , at one point,up almost 60 . , we are down about 900 points here. Taiwan is the other big market as well. We were down 8 at one point. The biggest singleday drop. Last time it was this bad i do not know which won the oscar best picture in 1990. What was it . The ban on shortselling that regulators have put into place to effect took effect today. We are down 3 for the nikkei. Topix just entered a tight correction a technical correction. You put those two charts together, you have the yen gaining against the dollar. Quickly,markets, very the ringgit and the rup
Time i was sworn in as a new member of the board of supervisors and became very an acquainted with uncle ben. This fund is in honor of his lifes work to raise money for promising bayview use aspiring to their higher educational goals. On an annual basis we have from friends while a Community Mourns a giant, we have many memories of uncle ben and his memories will live on so many who will up lift and move forward our next leaders of our nation. With that said, madam clerk, i want to recognize the family and Community Members here in the chamber who have come to celebrate mr. Robinsons memory with us. Please stand, thank you. Thank you for joining us. I would like to have a motion that we close out the entire Board Meeting in honor of mr. Ben robinson. Thank you. Thank you. I think at this point we can all agree that homelessness in San Francisco has not only reached a crisis but an emergency. Our overall Homeless Population has stagnated for many years. We have far too many families and
Process forren dangered rare and species and already by existing development and the subdivision will be consistent with the urban Development Project in the city. The fifth criterion is whether the subdivision will cause Serious Health problems, again t subdivision will make for low density and housing and will not create a Serious Public Health problem. The fact that the project will lead to access to more public open space. The project sponsor will be at their own cost constructing a public staircase and landscaping along the street next to the project site so it will lead to more access. The sixth criterion whether it will conflict with the public easement on the property. The property will result in Greater Public access to carver street through the construction of that staircase. So in short, the appellants provide no basis under the state map act and the code. What we have here is an appellant who is very clearly opposed to the project using the map appeal as a new venue to chal
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