Twitter and facebook scheduled to testify before the Senate Commerce committee on wednesday. Examine whether that content liability shield section 230 is still relevant and needed. This is one of the days in the market, im not sure what is happening in the overall dow matters so much to the tech story. April sl about flat on some promising iphone 12 order lead times. Then if you look it at the nasdaq zoom is up amazon, etsy maybe thats some halloween eagerness. Yeah, a bit of a mixed bag today, jon you have the stay at home names you mentioned. Tech broadly lower weve got that doubleheader again this week. A hearing following by earnings from the Big Tech Companies. And its interesting, looking at facebook and alphabet this month, theyre actually outforemaniou outperforming the big tech names. Alphabet is up 8 . Facebook up 7 again, we see the theme. The pressure is on in terms of antitrust and regulatory scrutiny yet, the stock prices not really reacting those are the two names that h
Themselves as a platform investors seem to be buying it with that stock up 13 this week it just keeps going up nearly 4 today and it laid out the case for longer term growth and ironically, it will come from the good old phone, right a lot of that conference was focused on the zoom phonewhich basically enables you to take it wherever you go. And there is s ais an axios rept saying that uber may be looking to celebrate its elevate unit, the moon shot flying taxi unit it reflects obsession with profit ability, but i might argue that it reflects his obsession to please sharehold s shareholders backing away from some of the longer term ambitions such as freight, elevate now and as well as selfdriving cars, it does raise a few questions. Yes, it may give the share price a bump in the short term, about where does it position uber lon term yeah, when these companies dont have a clear business Start Talking about that were a Media Company or a Helicopter Company or were a freight company, real
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