he s the latest tech ceo to go out and buy a news outlet. in this case, he s bought time magazine. so maybe that means time is the winner? fingers crossed, they both win in that situation. now, what about the losers? i would say david pecker and the national enquirer is a loser this year. of course, the catch-and-skill scheme has been exposed. now he s been granted immunity from prosecution. sinclair, another loser this year. there s been expose after expose of bias at sinclair through their conservative-leaning commentaries, and sinclair s deal to buy tribune fell through. and perhaps the biggest loser of the year, facebook. this has been their worst year ever. the company under intense scrutiny for privacy concerns, for data concerns, and of course, the plague of misinformation on the platform. but those are just a few of my winners and losers. let s bring in david zurawik with his list. he s with me here, the media critic for the baltimore as you know. david, your biggest winner
we being a bit hypocritical that other american companies are going and complying with chinese law? is this something different because it s about freedom and values? i think every tech ceo wakes up in the morning and looks in the mirror and says two things, hello, mr. and mrs. president. i think they are running for president. and two, hello ceo of most valuable company in the world. and no company can be the most valuable company in the world for an extended period of time without being in china. fastest growing economy in the world. a fair question would be the search engines in china. yet upheld by the notion of working with our armed forces around artificial intelligence. that is a fair question. now, their obligation, their obligation is to wake up and create more earnings for shareholders. they re not failing. it s we who are failing to elect
issue with this user numbers for a long time and how much time people spend in average per day on the platform mark zuckerberg he was warning along with other tech c.e.o. s in the past saying if you want more data security that s fine but we won t be able to ring you the numbers that you guys on wall street or any other stock markets want us to deliver but even many so have said that you know twitter needs to work on their business model and also to add features that are catching more the attention of a younger audience it s still a very valuable company and i think open front thank you so much. well it s a project that s just recently been heavily criticized by donald trump and approach of that s highly controversial within europe north stream too if everything goes according to plan the nine and a half billion euro project will start transporting gas from russia to europe by the end of twenty nineteen north stream two will run alongside the first north stream pipeline through the bal
the measures ahead of its annual general meeting on thursday for i m monitoring the developments this week forces our financial correspondent in frankfurt. well the reporting so far seems to indicate that the cuts will be everywhere and all the regions where deutsche bank operates across all levels of the operation so retail banking investment banking assets asset management at its subsidiary opposed the bank it s also it s already working on cutting its activities on u.s. equities but it s also started to reduce operations elsewhere like in central europe africa and the middle east so the supervisory board is apparently getting together tonight in order to consult on these plans and these targets with the results being presented tomorrow at that shareholders meeting where i will also be monitoring the developments as they unfold. through the call it tech for good fifty top tech c.e.o. s have met with french president among all my powers
while we work with treaties with the united states. it might very well and subject trump to impeachment. i d be really careful about that if i were giving advice to the president. one of the biggest problems stella the oversight is supposed to come from congress. and congress is now being led by republicans in both chambers. i m not saying they are not going to do their job. but treasury going to be an incredible amount of pressure overrepublicans and who over see the committees and have the ability for subpoena power to make sure that donald trump and his kids aren t crossing the line. and let s give him the benefit of the doubt. but the fact of the matter is there needs to be a watchdog on this and right now i don t know if congress is that watchdog. which is a huge issue here. there is no sign that anything is going to change. those tech ceo, they saw who was in that room today. they saw who was there. that was a very strong message.