A lot of them are in stealth mode. Certain technologies plateau and things move on. In general, no. Not at all. I ask that because the last couple years we have had the explosion of smartphones, the tablets coming online, what is out there . First of all, there are vast numbers of people especially in less developed countries, but even in developed countries who dont own a smartphone. Certainly there are vast numbers that dont own a tablet. To give you a rough example, apple which leads in the tablet market, has sold somewhere around 160 million ipads since 2010. That is a remarkable achievement. I dont own any stock in any of these companies. That makes them very happy. Ipads, even ifn you had in the android tablets, it is a small fraction of the people that could own a tablet, especially as the prices come down. Talkhere has been a lot of about the difficulty of innovating in the smartphone space. Ofhave seen a couple iterations by apple and samsung that havent been big giant jumps a
They got a lot of boxes here, boxes filled with little folders filled with papers, and theres a lot of stories hidden in those papers. In fact, if you get real quiet and you listen real closely, you just might hear somebody take a piece of paper out of the box upstairs and read it and go, holy cow. You dont have those holy cow experiences all that often, but when they come, its really a thrill for a researcher, and thats what keeps researchers going. So this book exists today because i gave into one of those deep, dark desires that lurks in the depths of the human soul. I refer to the desire to prove that your boss is full of baloney. This happened in 2010. I was hired as an editor at American History magazine, and i immediately made a suggestion to the honcho of the place who just hired me. I said, the 150 the anniversary of the civil war is coming up. I dont we take a couple pages in each issue and run a newspaper story about some event in the civil war that happen 150 years ago . I
Ice for 8. 2 billion in cash and stock. David is here to break it down. Go through some of the numbers four. The deal itself having been officially announced in the last half hour or so board signing off, call it about 8 a. M. Eastern time. My sources tell me this all began a couple of months back when jeffrey spraker, the ceo of ice approached duncan niederauer, the ceo of the Stock Exchange about a potential deal. Looking forward hearing from both men later in the program. As for the deal itself, if youre a new york Stock Exchange shareholder, mr. Spreker built this account the past decade. 36 of the combined company will be controlled by current new york Stock Exchange shareholders. You get a premium. Also an opportunity to participate in the continued growth of what will be a trading ba he months. They trade stocks. Energy, Interest Rates, commodities, agriculture, thats what its bat. Global platform for the trading in so many different asset classes, particularly as it relates to
Host Walt Mossberg, has technology plateaued . Guest oh, no, absolutely not. Absolutely not. Technology is always changing and always coming up with Technology Companies are always coming up with something new, and there are new Technology Companies all the time incubating, a lot of them are in what we call stealth mode. We dont even know who they are. Certain technologies plateau and things move on, but in general, no. Not at all. Host i guess i ask that because the last couple years weve had the explosion of smartphones, weve had tablets come online. Whats out there . Guest well, first of all, there are vast numbers of people especially in the less developed cups, but even in the developed countries who dont own a smartphone and, certainly, there are vast thurms that dont own numbers that dont own a tablet. To give you a rough example, apple which leads in the tablet market has sold somewhere around 160 million ipads since 2010. Thats a remarkable achievement and for people that own
Some severe difficulties internal difficulties. The woman happened to say to me all this presley died of that. I went why . One thing led to another and i spent a day with Elvis Presleys doctor and learned about the kings troubles with severe. Host who was his doctor . Guest dr. Nick megapolis. Host what was that like . Guest it was the anniversary of elviss death. There was a gathering of all the hardcore fans who come to graceland and so they were all milling around. He was doing a memorial tribute and whenever to this house which is the house that elvis had built for him way back when in the 70s. Dr. Nick and i sat around in the living room with this wonderful 1970s at the time very posh place. A great read rooms and we sat there. Dr. Nick here and his wife aetna edna would be the furniture was quite far apart and i would lean down to put my coffee and id have to get up slightly to get the coffee cup down. Dr. Nick and i talked about elvis and every now and then edna would pop up wi