Wb, ur, bostons npr news station. [applause] thank you. Thank you. Im sure some of you are saying, wow, thats bob oakes . This. [laughter] i thought he was taller, i thought he was thinner, i thought he had more hair, and, you know, the funny thing is that all those things were true last week. [laughter] let me thank all of you for coming here this afternoon and thank the boston book festival for having us. Dont they do a nice job . Isnt this a atlantic event . A terrific event . [applause] lets also thank the Plymouth Rock foundation for sponsoring this particular session and say that without their generosity, it would be hard to put on events like this that add to the cultural life that we all enjoy in this great city, so thanks to them. [applause] and in a way thats what were here to talk about this afternoon, the triumph of this city and all the cities, the triumph of the city, thats the title of harvard economics professor ed glaesers book, its about whats made cities around the w
Belong to a community. I agree with you that often, the conversation is about people with children and my definition does not assume that we will all have children two my first two chapters, i think the world has changed drastically for women before they get married. It is before you run into the reality of it that we were talking about. I think it is remarkable what has happened in the life of a single woman in so many different ways, culturally in terms of workplace opportunities and self conception and identity, it has been radically transformed almost more than any other state in the last 30 years. On that note, even though we have become the conversation today. I would like to thank janet rosen and Meghna Chakrabarti for joining us. Tell us what you think about programming this weekend. You can tweet us at booktv. Comment on our facebook wall, or send us an email. Booktv, nonfiction books every weekend on cspan2. From the Fourth Annual book festival, the triumph of the city featur
Did change course. Heading to the market street. If Parliament Passes the declaration of independence this and it plans to rejoin russia denounced as an annexation of germanys chancellor. And with his Prime Minister ousted. Local militias ignore an easy towns borders. He filled the north korean flagged tanker with a low sales off a tanker has since been intercepted will be speaking with our correspondent sure. Stall the mystery deepens over the Malaysian Airlines jet now missing for four days radar evidence now shows the boeing seven seven seven jetliner in the dingy dd change course. And according to the malaysian military made it to the mole aka straight hundreds of kilometers away from the last location reported by air Traffic Controllers saturday meanwhile those two passengers traveling on stolen passports have been identified as the reunions probably try to make it to europe to find work as interpol has ruled them out as terror suspects. U s intelligence says that doesnt rule out
Super charging them with sugar on top of the adrenaline rush of the opening bell in new york. They scrunched together to watch the ceremony on tv monitors. One thing was clear early on the 26pershare ipo price set last night was conservative. Underwriters trying to gauge supply and demand settled on a 45 opening price, 73 higher. That meant twitter could have raised over 1. 5 billion more. The ceo of yelp says setting an ipo price isnt ease emp. Its not a science, its simply an art. At the end of a long day and couple of weeks, you do your best to deliver value to both your own shifting shareholders and the new ones. And you try to be as fair as possible. Reporter while some were jumping in, others didnt because of risk factors. Any ipo stock that becomes a trading vehicle the first few days after an ipo, its a guessing game how much it will eventually be worth. Nobody knows. Doesnt have a track record. There may be revenues, but we dont know what the profitability will be. Theres a ho
Exceeded all expectations. Twitter makes a big splash on its opening day on wall street and makes instant millionaires out of dozens of bay area employees. Twitter executives didnt make the same mistakes facebook made a year and a half ago. They priced their stock conservatively and didnt flood the market with too many shares. Twitters stock closed this afternoon at just under 45 a share. A 2 premium from its ipo 72 premium from its ipo price of 26. Our business and Technology Reporter is live at twitter headquarters. David, i imagine that party is still going. Reporter yes, you can tell thats whats going on because theres been no one leaving the twitter building since lunchtime today. And we have also heard from a neighbor across the way at the end of the building. He says there are preparations underway for a big bash for tonight. Now, we know that theres been a lot of celebrating going on, and it was joined by Top Executives from the company who were in new york this morning for the