Business week. We have been talking about this buying aours Google Company that makes digital smoke detectors. 3. 2 billion. Not bad for a little thermostat company. I dont know what is more surprising, google buying it or them selling. One of the cofounders of nest made a ton of money make working at apple both of the cofounders worked at apple. They were behind the ipod. These guys dont need the money, that is for darn sure. But teaming up with google gives them some runway in some capacity that they wouldnt have otherwise because they still remain a very small company. Hardware company is different from a software company. They were looking at raising hundreds of millions of dollars. The deal, i should mention, is still pending regulatory approval. Once they are part of google they will mandatory about money. Scaling is a much easier proposition for them. What else do they do . Faddell and rogers have always talked about the greater implications than just come in this case, a smoke
Contaminated beef is being sold. They dont know. Were learning some of it may have been sold in supermarkets, not just restaurants. For more on this, tony corbo from food and water watch. Thanks for coming on the show. How could they not know where the stuff is . They know the producer. Well they will have to check the retail records to see where, where this particular company sold their products. So if the, if records are deficient at the company, it is going to take longer to do the investigative work. Gerri oh, boy. That sound like a long process to me. So how do i know if the hamburger in my freezer right now is contaminated . Well, if in fact it did hit retail supermarkets, there is an inspection legend, usda inspection legend on packages that will identify the plant. And the plant number is 2574b. So if you see the logo of usda saying it has been inspected, there should be an establishment number with that number there. So that would indicate that meat came from that plant. Gerri
Gain a stronger grasp of the english language. Welcome to al Jazeera America, im stephanie si and begin this morning with breaking news out of south sudan, 200300 people drowned in a ferry accident on the white nile river and the boat was overloaded with refugees at the time. The victims of the ferry accident were civilians trying to flee from fighting in the town of molacal, the gate way to the oil fields of the upper nile region and heavy fighting is there as they attempt to seize the town. Control of the town has already changed hands twice since the conflict in south sudan began last month. The bitter budget battle on capitol hill is finally over. House and Senate Negotiators have brokered a 1 trillion spending deal and finance the government and prevent a shut do you know and its a pact agreed upon by republicans and democrats last month and the plan contains dozens of tradeoffs and Thomas Drayton has more. Reporter with the threat of another government shut down only days away, t
Charter communications has offered to buy Time Warner Cable for 132 per share. Billion. T at 61 includes 83 in cash per share at about 49 in stock. Bell,r big deal after the google has landed nesslamb. They will continue to operate under its own brand. Rose last month in china. Chart medications. Buyter has made an offer to Time Warner Cable peered joining me with details and reactions, we have alex sherman and the chairman of media more. Thank you for joining me. You broke the story, alex. Apparently Time Warner Cable has already said it is not going to be satisfied with the price they were given. We heard in the story that was telling his associates they dont except expect time warner to except that amount. I was talking to a source familiar with the situation and this person told me that 132. 50 is a starting price in the sense that if time warner will not engage, why even both . Er . Why isnt Time Warner Cable in gauging on this in order to try to negotiate a higher price . I think
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