Beat for alphabet. Spoke to the alphabet c. E. O. About the results. Ill give you the takeaways from that conversation coming up. Facebook beats the social s the covid her storm. 2021 might not do so well. Big word uncertainty. Earningsnating the calendar and on our show we also saw the results from amazon and twitter. Clobbered inng after hours trading. Well cover it all over the next hour. Abigail doolittle is watching the market moves from new york. Abigail, lots of different stories at play. Seeing . You incredible. Most anticipated day of earnings for any quarterback, at least we have some of the answers. Lets start out with the breakdown because were a tale of two stories. Relative to first apple and amazon. Well see declines. On the surface, they did beat adjusted earnings putting up 73 cents per beat by 4. 7 . They put up nearly 65 illion in overall revenue beating by almost 2 , but beneath the surface as you iphone tioning the sales disappointing, down 21 , and china sales wer
W. I should say im actually trained as a lawyer originally. Ive been at m. I. T. For more than 20 years. And ive alwaysorked with an Extraordinary Group of computer scientists. My research in all that time has always been in the Computer Science literature. But what im really most interested in is number one, how do help policymakers to make good decisions about Technology Policy and so that involves understanding the details of how cputer systems and Network Systems work. And probably more importantly, im really interested in how to evolve our Computing Technology so its more responsive to Public Policy needs. And ive been able to do that because ive worked with and continue to work with an Extraordinary Group of computer scientists and other researchers at m. I. T. And around the world. Can you give one example of how youve influenced policy . Well, people are probably well aware as an example that theres a big debate about the use of encryption technology. We need encryption to prot
Importantly i am really interested in how to evolve our Computing Technology so that it is more responsive to Public Policy needs. We need encryption to protect our email exchanges, our financial transactions, political speech that goes on. We hope privately online what it needs to. Governments for decades have ofn concerned that the use strong Encryption Technology would thwart the ability of Law Enforcement to conduct electronic surveillance. From a technical perspective, we look at that question and while acknowledging that encryption and pose some barriers for the police, we have shown through Technical Research that if you try to force all encryption palpable or have upkdoors, then you will end harvesting the security of the millions of people around the world to use the internet and Computing Technology, so well this is an ongoing debate, even governments trying to control encryption have acknowledged that they should not do so in a way that introduces systemic weaknesses. At tha
Amazon billion offer to goes from rivals to partners as jeff bezos is willing to take a 40 stake in his indian retail revolution. At thelets take a look set up for the session of trading in asia. We saw that resumption of the loss in the u. S. How are we setting up in this part of the world . Sophie a pickup in volatility once again. In asia, futures are mixed, but we are seeing s p eminis. Chicago adding. 3 . The yen is stuck in the range with brexit risk also a consideration. We are watching tiktok reaction to trumps extension of that tiktok watching reaction to trumps extension of that tiktok sale. Jupiter Asset Management is cutting its exposure to debt of Chinese State linked borrowers so that is something to consider as well. Ahead of the u. S. Election, you are seeing one vol bets can yuan vol bets. Keeping an eye on korean bonds with potentially 6. 3 billion of supply coming through. The government may submit its proposal to parliament this friday. The global rush of Corporate
A consultancy so far safadi taking a trip online the Tourism Industry looks to technology as the coronavirus pandemic limits global travel. Police and better roosts have detained another 700 people on a forced lies of unrest of a sundays disputed election they join 6000 already in custody in bassa just to belarus have laid flowers at a makeshift memorial for the victims of the crackdown one protester died in Police Custody on wednesday the unrest was triggered by president Alexander Lukashenko election victory which the e. U. Says was they have neither free nor fair. We were to have reports that people were ill treated during the process of arrest while they were being arrested but also in detention and we do underscore that there is an absolute prohibition on the treatment and torture with very concerned the moral calling for is that those that may have been on lawfully detained should be released immediately. 0 step past reports from its. More and more people are joining in here with