Reported narrow margins as it was forced to spend more on marketing to attract mobile users. All of this coming from the recently updated ipo filing. Hasdreamworks animation launched dreamworks tv on youtube. The project is being led by optimist tv. Our lead story of the day, growth is slowing at alibaba and that has some investors worried. Updated ipo perspectives show that sales slowed considerably in the fourth quarter, and margins were down dropping from to 45 . In the year 5 for more now we are joined by cory johnson and leslie packer. They also broke out some of the numbers that were not in the original ipo filing. What jumped out . Nothing really surprised me. We got an investor reaction, because of yahoos ownership stake we might see the way the market is thinking about these numbers and what their optimism might have been. Gone straight had up to the right and forever they are not. Growth will slow down at some point and you can see a little bit of that in these numbers. But g
Hello, welcome. It has just come 7 00 here in london. Warm welcome to the second hour. The deadline just expired. It was 10 a. M. Moscow time this morning. We are watching this developing story. Were waiting to see if we get any announcement anytime. In any event they effectively tapatened to turn off the to ukraine if they havent paid the 1. 9 5 billion to partially cover their debt and agreed to a gas price for future deliveries. Ukraine gets half its gas from russia. The e. U. Gets a third of its gas from russia, half of which rebels through ukraine. Travels through ukraine. A sixth of the e. U. Gas travels through ukraine. We have seen this before in 2006 and in 2009. In both cases they have disrupted gas supplies to western europe. Definitely something to watch. Thing is the two sides do have a little time to get through the summer. Its warm now so gas demand is lower. They have been stowing away gas. Ande is a lot of gas western europe. Ing from places like slovakia. The other th
We are your in london. Mcdonalds secret world cup menu. Find out what you can order under the counter if you are in brazil. The super sidecar, we check out the vehicle trying to break the land speed record. But get into industrial policy. Ge is said to be refining its alstom bill to assure bid to assure france this is the deadline. Casens chief is making his to french lawmakers after presenting a joint bid with mitsubishi yesterday. Carolyn is all over the story. She is in paris. The offer could come as soon as friday. In the meantime, we heard from siemens ceo in front of french lawmakers. Three weeks after the ge ceo eser to testify, joe ka knew we had to convince lawmakers that his offer was the best. His offer with mitsubishi would safeguard jobs and investments. I talked to him before his appearance before french lawmakers. The feeling is the president is a good listener. He had been listening to ge and siemens and he knows the facts and im sure people she i am that we areeciates
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