Of sleeping. Big things ahead today, right . Youve got the exclusive with schul schultz, we cant wait for that. Its not about the triple pu on. The value of the payments business at starbucks talking about how much its worth and how important it might be here as a rival to some of these card companies. Yeah. Look, bob nardelli made a great point if you can cut out the little big, the vig that visa and mastercard get, if you can make it so someone nearing the store is able to pay for it ahead of time and own the register why should this be limited to starbucks. This is a trillion dollar market and Howard Schultz moved over from his daytoday running on starbucks to focus on this. Is it worth more than the company . Same say it is, i think its a little bit of hyperbole but well find out. So fascinating. The red carpet on the stairs behind you looks like the dolby theater like youre in the Academy Awards and youll sit next to hanks and brad pitt. Wow. I mean, if they show up if Richard She
Shoreman threatening to walk off the ports in the east on gulf coast. This could disrupt billions of dollars in shipments. Joining us now ed butowsky, a hell of a way to start a week with the threat after strike. To put it in context, when l. A. Had a dock workers strike ten years ago, it cost a billion dollars a day. This is going to affect ports in newark, houston, miami, this could be several billion dollar hits every day to our economy . Yeah, and i tell you, when you look at it, its really similar. There are some parallels to the fiscal cliff discussion. Because the arguments are about are the royalty payments that the dock workers get for bringing merchandise on board and unloading the cargo and what the similarity is really that were not theyre not talking about more business, theyre talking about how do we split up the same pie and same thing with the fiscal cliff, were not talking growing the economy, how do you split up the economy getting the tax revenue and the same thing w
Largest ecommerce be the in what could most valuable tech company. Meanwhile violence in ukraine is spreading to other parts of the country, alleged prorussian separatists killing ukrainian troops. Aev says it is turning into real bore. All of that ahead on street smart. Lets look at these stocks were watching as we head into the close. I want to go to julie hyman. I want to start with pfizer. We have seen so much activity in the drug sector. They failed to make more than estimated. The ceo talking about what could happen if you see that big pfizerastrazeneca deal go through. They are talking about the implications for any potential rake up of pfizer. The Company Thinks it would possibility. Our lesley they would have to reject or how that would be done. Obviously they would have to the way that would be done. And foreign sales were influenced by an outbreak of bird fuel and china. International chicken sales really felt the pain from that. And finally we have the potential deal, looki
Research with some Companies Looking into whether printers can make human organs for transplant. We will hear more about the efforts of one company that is already reducing living tissue. Charges from Music Services like pandora and spotify. And it is setting up its own music streaming service. I spoke about all of it with tmobiles ceo, john ledger. He announced the availability of wideband lt in 16 markets in the u. S. Already, which gives you up to 150 megs of speed, that is a 90 minute hd video in three minutes, and in about 107 Million Peoples locations in 15 markets. But what we found was the 6 billion dollars in media spending that the industry is spending on maps, and a cacophony of crazy messages, makes it hard to come through. What we found by listening to our customers is what they said to us is, hey, we love what youre doing, but we would love a chance to test drive. We are offering a program where we are offering something called the seven night stand and it is the ability
Can make human organs for transplant. We will hear more about the efforts of one company that is already reducing living tissue. And blackberry shares are rising after the Company Reported a smaller loss per share and 23 million in net income in the first quarter. Cost cutting and asset sales helped the smartphone maker, which is still dealing with revenue issues. I will speak with the ceo at the bottom of the hour. To our lead story of the day, tmobile Ceo John Legere takes aim at rivals at t and verizon with a new program called uncarrier 5. 0. Hiphop duo macklemore and ryan lewis headlined. The packed house also got to hear about tmobiles Free Trial Program where potential customers will get a free iphone five four week to try out the mobile network. Tmobile is also waiting data charges from Music Services like pandora and spotify. And it is setting up its own music streaming service. I spoke about all of it with tmobiles ceo, john ledger. He announced the availability of wideband l