Secrets to making the perfect toy for children. We discuss all these focus groups, all these tiny workers. Lets begin this hour with news on beats. Im joined by eric cammie. Jon erlichman from los angeles. Severny johnson from cisco. Jon erlichman, i went to begin with you. Give us the details of this deal. There is 3 billion for the beats business, still relatively a young business. In terms of the reasoning that ,pple is giving for this deal there are a few factors. We talk a lot about Technology Companies doing acquisitions for talent. In this case, they are bringing very talented Music Industry players on board. If you think about what beats has been trying to do in its evolution, going beyond the thephones and now into subscription music business, a business that it feels needed to be reinvented the same way they felt that earbuds needed to be reinvented. If you combine that with what apple has been doing in streaming recently with their radio service, they clearly are trying to s
And this mornings cspan bus is on the campus of the university of wisconsin in madison and joining us on the bus is ray cross, whos the president of the university of wisconsin system. Thank you for being here. Lets begin with this distinction of being the president of the university of wisconsins system. What does that mean . Within the university of wisconsin system, greta, theres 13 fouryear institutions and 13 twoyear feeder institutions extension is in all 72 counties, in addition to that, there are 180,000 students throughout the system. 40,000 employees. Its roughly the sixth largest system in the United States, with about a 6 billion budget. Its pretty sizable Higher Education, Public Higher Education operation. What does it mean that you are the president of the system as opposed to a president of just lets say the university of wisconsin, madison, of one site . Part of the theory behind a system is that theyre meant to coordinate and to develop state wide issues, issues that
How big is the university of wisconsin madison . Madison has about 43,000 to 44,000 students. Its probably in the middle of the big ten, sixth or seventh, in that category of big ten. Its the Third Largest recipient of u. S. Dollars, its a major institution, its been ranked in the top five ever since i can remember. It puts a tremendous emphasis on research, and all the work thats being done in Stem Cell Research. And changing those into different heart cells and even retina cells. Research in the biosciences, its a phenomenal institution when it comes to research and energy and areas like that, its been very active in the weather station. I think we have 18 nobel prize winners, engineering and chemistry and medicine and physics, its a Major Research institution. And the university of wisconsin madison, its tuition fees for undergraduate degrees, for in state, youre looking at a little over 10,000. Out of state the price tag is 26,660. The room and board costs come in at about 8,600. W
Douglass, we dont know the exact date. Abraham lin on the, the emancipation proclamation and also the birthday of w. E. B. Dubois. My wife was pregnant with our second child, and she went into labor february 22nd, and so we went to the hospital and they said f i said if you hold out a couple hours, well have a duboise baby. And you can imagine what with you would say to your husband 10 or 15 years down the road. But he was born on february 23rd, so we do have a duboise birthday. In a course like this talking about freedom, theres no person that exemplifies the struggle of freedom in america and the world more than w. E. B. Dubois. And, of course, he became famous for this is a little bit of his life. His early years, he was born in great barrington, massachusetts. As hes born there, hes born to, his mother and father. His father, alfred, left the family not long after he left was born. His grandfather, alexander, was of haitian background, spent some time in Santa Domingo and ran a sto
Douglass, we dont know the exact date. Abraham lin on the, the emancipation proclamation and also the birthday of w. E. B. Dubois. My wife was pregnant with our second child, and she went into labor february 22nd, and so we went to the hospital and they said f i said if you hold out a couple hours, well have a duboise baby. And you can imagine what with you would say to your husband 10 or 15 years down the road. But he was born on february 23rd, so we do have a duboise birthday. In a course like this talking about freedom, theres no person that exemplifies the struggle of freedom in america and the world more than w. E. B. Dubois. And, of course, he became famous for this is a little bit of his life. His early years, he was born in great barrington, massachusetts. As hes born there, hes born to, his mother and father. His father, alfred, left the family not long after he left was born. His grandfather, alexander, was of haitian background, spent some time in Santa Domingo and ran a sto