Sometimes the glass shrinking a half full vessel look like it is overflowing and this is where we areright now and this, after todays session dow closed flat, s p up 6 and nasdaq up. And lets start with the thing that we all know which is the half full half empty this morning disney launched the new streaming service diocese plus and immediately overwhelmed with traffic and started having outages even though management assured us the technology was solid on the Conference Call last week. We were told they tested the system in the netherlands which must be a new worldwide peoria but it reminds me of hamsterdam. They botched the roll out of a promising new service but the Glass Half Full people think differently. Sure the site crashed but that is because there was so much demand and traffic diocese vetted this platform for millions of people and that wasnt enough. It is not hard to believe it has so much great content that it caused a stampede of subscribers. In reality both are right. B
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Good friday morning. Welcome to squawk alley. Im kaylee towshe. Rick santelli joins us as well. Carl quintanilla has the morning off. Executive editor kara swisher. Good morning to you too. How you doing . Im in d. C. , actually. All right. Lets get to our top story today. I think well work on karas audio there. Shares of microsoft at alltime highs this morning for the First Time Since 1999, the company beating the street on the top and bottom lines and showing Significant Growth if the cloud. Former microsoft ceo Steve Ballmer joining our friend op squawk box talking about the stellar quarter and a potential acquisition of twitter. I have never, ever, ever wanted to buy twitter myself. I mean, come on. Ive got a good life right now. I dont need to do that. Of course, mike, they asked the question because he is a large twitter shareholder, not just an outside tech observer. Interestingly on microsoft this morning, people are joking that it only took 17 years to get yours. If you were h
Greek officials have persuaded german light creditors they are serious about delivering the. Guy even though both sides have had their redlines, there was common ground. Lets get to tom. Red lines by necessity are inflexible. But there is common ground. Francine lets go straight to tom in brussels. Theres still a very tight timeline. Do we have a more positive tone . Tom yes. We are looking at the timeline of six weeks. But there has been this rapprochement after the acrimonious meeting they had in riga three weeks ago. The euro group coming out with a statement saying they are seeing positive intent from the greeks. No details on the policies. Though there was a little bit of detail from the european commissioner of economic and financial affairs, who said there had been son movement on vap, some movement on the management of greek revenue. It has given britain space, possible a couple of weeks to the greeks who are being propped up by the ecb. The ecb less likely to strike to tighten