Well on the way to 2 billion friends facebook gets more popular, more profitable and more powerful than ever before. Plus, driving a brexit bargain why britains the place to snap up a cut price supercar. Welcome to World Business report. Im sally bundock. Also in the programme a rare bit of good news for mexicos car industry but first. We start with facebook because despite predictions of a slowdown, the worlds Biggest Social Network keeps getting more popular, more profitable and more powerful. Late on wednesday it reported quarterly numbers that were much better than expected. They round off another year of rapid growth that has seen it become one of the biggest advertising businesses on earth. Its massive reach has also of course raised concerns about the amount of influence it can have and the reliability of information thats shared on it. So lets give you an idea of how big facebook now is. By the end of last year, over 1. 86 billion people Around The World were logging on at leas
With sally and World Business report. President trumps expected to ditch obamas Clean Energy Policies later today but the big question, will the move really help to boostjobs . And hit the road, jack. Ubers Self Driving Cars are going back on the road after a crash in arizona. Welcome to World Business report. Also American Airlines and chinas Biggest Airline agree a strategic partnership, rico will have all the detailfor partnership, rico will have all the detail for you partnership, rico will have all the detailfor you injust a moment. After weeks of delay and speculation, President Trump is finally expected to issue an Executive Order later today that will start to dismantle president obamas Clean Energy Policies. This includes a sweeping Environmental Protection agency rule that mandates cuts in Carbon Emissions from power plants. Its also expected to quickly end the freeze on new Coal Mining Leases On Federal Lands and reverse rules to curb methane emissions. During his Election C
Attention is now turning to tomorrow s meeting between president xi and President Trump. And well be live at londons city hall where Business Leaders from europes big cities are working out how to get through the uncertainty of brexit. And as iceland legislates to enforce equal pay we want to hear from you what would you do to level the pay of men and women. Just use the hashtag bbcbizlive. Welcome to the programme. Perhaps some transparency on what people are actually paid. Illjust throw that one out there. Send us your comments. It has been a week since the United Kingdom finally gave the European Union notice it wants to leave. The british Prime Minister theresa may has suggested Freedom Of Movement of people between the uk and the eu could be extended after brexit. Thats just one issue the European Parliament is discussing and it matters because it can veto any final agreement made between the uk and the european council. One of the other big issues theyll be looking at is the size
enemy, as he puts it, a sign of the alarm and concern about the strikes which have been killing civilians recently. there was a drone strike which killed three people last week and earlier this week that attack in and earlier this week that attack in a pizza restaurant, killing 13 people. search and rescue operations continuing in response to that attack on the residential building in lviv. ., ., in lviv. orden, for the moment, thank you- in lviv. orden, for the moment, thank you. gordon in lviv. orden, for the moment, thank you. gordon corera - in lviv. orden, for the moment, thank you. gordon corera for. in lviv. orden, for the moment, | thank you. gordon corera for us. the parent company of facebook and instagram has officially launched a new app that s widely seen as a rival to twitter. meta describes its new platform threads as a text based conversation app . our north america technology reporter, james clayton, has more. last month, these two titans of tech challenged ea
and before we are able to let go of that, we need to make sure that we have developed the new energy systems of the future. and we are not yet collectively moving at the pace that requires that to happen. the parent company of facebook and instagram has officially launched a new app that s widely seen as a rival to twitter. meta describes its new platform threads as a text based conversation app . our north america technology reporter, james clayton, has more. last month, these two titans of tech challenged each other to a physical fight. it wasn t clear if they were joking. but meta s new app called threads is deadly serious for twitter. it s been branded the twitter killer. these were my thoughts just after the app went live. so, first thoughts this isjust very similar to twitter. very similar. only looks like there s one feed here. in terms of optics, though.identical.