History of technology. The choir has not been identified but the top list who can afford to buy the company is a small list, oracle, microsoft, ibm. But who once the behemoth sale . We will talk to brent. The board has to make a decision and their decision is to evaluate that decision an offer on the table so that is why they engaged the experts to look at offer. The business that shows tremendous topline growth and also a business that has zilch forprofits, zilch over the last five years of cash flow and if you look at what we know, you look at growing the business they do it by expensive acquisitions and spending a boat load of marketing and thats why theres no markets or historical cash flow. They will want topline growth at the expense of a lot of earnings and a lot of money. You have covered sales for a long time and you share my skepticism. I think its going to be tough to pull this off. This is the largest deal every tech. We also know that mark has done a great job and i think
Identified but the top list who can afford to buy the company is a small list, oracle, microsoft, ibm. But who once the behemoth sale . We will talk to brent. The board has to make a decision and their decision is to evaluate that decision an offer on the table so that is why they engaged the experts to look at offer. The business that shows tremendous topline growth and also a business that has zilch forprofits, zilch over the last five years of cash flow and if you look at what we know, you look at growing the business they do it by expensive acquisitions and spending a boat load of marketing and thats why theres no markets or historical cash flow. They will want topline growth at the expense of a lot of earnings and a lot of money. You have covered sales for a long time and you share my skepticism. I think its going to be tough to pull this off. This is the largest deal every tech. We also know that mark has done a great job and i think coulter is a big thing to him. We already know
Identified but the top list who can afford to buy the company is a small list, oracle, microsoft, ibm. But who once the behemoth sale . We will talk to brent. The board has to make a decision and their decision is to evaluate that decision an offer on the table so that is why they engaged the experts to look at offer. The business that shows tremendous topline growth and also a business that has zilch forprofits, zilch over the last five years of cash flow and if you look at what we know, you look at growing the business they do it by expensive acquisitions and spending a boat load of marketing and thats why theres no markets or historical cash flow. They will want topline growth at the expense of a lot of earnings and a lot of money. You have covered sales for a long time and you share my skepticism. I think its going to be tough to pull this off. This is the largest deal every tech. We also know that mark has done a great job and i think coulter is a big thing to him. We already know
Stocks and those of you joining us from around the world, welcome. Olivia sterns reports on states and retailers stopping selling cigarettes. And peter cook has the u. S. Response to the crimea secession vote. We will get to peter in just a moment. European Union Foreign ministers imposed sanctions on russia after this weekends disputed referendum in crimea. I am now joined on the phone from brussels. Good evening. Saw we and also imposed travel restrictions, effectively banning them from traveling within the eu. I spoke with seven for an ministers today. They go for economic stations just they wont go for economic stations just yet. Or evenhotter get target russian business leaders. Punishle point is to russia for this referendum that took place yesterday where the majority of ukrainian voters voted to secede from ukraine and join russia and discourage president putin from annexing crimea just because the crimean said they do not want to join russia hasnt mean to accept them. If presi
And the second frankly is that the Decision Making process about appropriating funds from the reserve to the district is now resting with the mayor and the board of super visors so certainly that was the intent of the original language, but that is something that the city has you know, the willingness to revisit and change. Thats some of the discussion thats taking place now. The possible changes. One is that there would be two separate reserves created so right now instead of having the one plot of funds in the rainy day reserve, that there would be a split of the one reserve into two reserves. One would be for the district and one would be for the city and the city would receive 75 percent of the current balance and the district would receive 25 percent. And then if the say if and when the city in any year where they would make an additional deposit to the reserve then the same per centages would apply. In other words, we would use the funds to avoid lay offs rather than rescinding l