Believe in july, they we have the right strategy in place. On implementing the strategy. Interagency effort, across all of the departments that are involved. Secretary carter and secretary kerry have been meeting together with their senior staff to in tor and identify issues the campaign and theyre meeting foreign to focus on fighters. They are responsible for two of effort inside the strategy, denying isil safe i would like to speak the ly to those areas. Coalition has removed some of its key leaders in iraq and syria. Regained of them and partners have taken the key border town, which of isils key lines of communication and supply and pressure on its stro stronghold. When we have credible Ground Forces and support them with our air power, isil can suffer. We are working hard to build the capacity of our forces on the ground. Six trained more than brigades and provided training 13,000 personnel. We have more in the pipeline. As secretary carter said, in iraqi raining for the army has
Germany twoyear hits a record low yield. Adp good stateside, Oil Inventories this morning at 10 30. The market coming off a good week of rallies. The latest on yahoo . The board considering a sale of the core business meeting this morning. As for the fate of Marissa Mayer, thats not the core argument going on now. And Mark Zuckerbergs new baby and the pledge to give away 99 of facebook shares. Do want to get to yahoo this morning. Given the wall street journal story last night, above the fold, saying the board is considering a potential sale of the core business. Lets back up a bit and explain whats going on here. If you recall, yahoo s board decided early last year they would go forward with a spinoff of its 15 stake of alibaba, they reiterated their intention to move ahead in october with that same spin but without a private letter ruling from the irs, which some anticipated yahoo would get along the way. Nonetheless their lawyers and many others believe the deal would be considered
Launch a satellite as early as next week, leading to concerns in the International Community that it could be a missile test in disguise. The spread of zika is changing direction. Officials have reported the first case of the veers contracted inside the u. S. And not from a mosquito bite. Nhk world reports. Reporter in this case as we understand it, someone had just gotten sick with zika, and that individuals Sexual Partner developed zika without a travel history. Reporter the case adds another layer to contain the disease. One pay shechbtient traveled to venezuela where the zika is circulating. But the other patient hadnt left the u. S. Patients usually have a fever, skin rash and joint pain. And wheel there is no vaccine or treatment, patients usually recover in about a week. But there could be a bigger impact. The virus is linked to an alarming spike in the number of babies born with abnormally small heads, a condition called microcephaly, that could cause brain damage. The outbreak
The first word processer, the first smartphone, the first car, the first plane, it has this connotation of a breakthrough investigation thats in essence a quantum leap. And my book is about how we as a society need to be innovating more and how the really significant innovations that move the dial are these breakthrough zero to one companies. Host is Silicon Valley a zero to one, does that have a zero to one mindset . Guest theres, theres definitely Silicon Valley at this point is the center of innovation in the u. S. , and i would argue the center of innovation globally. Its, there are certainly a number of companies that have involved significant break throughs, i would say google, amazon, facebook are significant ones in recent years, apple with the iphone. Theres always a bias to make things very incremental. Successful companies in cig con valley are all Silicon Valley are all zero to one companies. Most Companies End up being much less valuable. The tenth solar panel company, tha
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