Blowouts record highs for apple and fable. Lets dig a little deeper. Amazon is built for a pandemic they typically pour money back into the business. They made a big bet on Online Grocery. Nay have been preparing for a shift in spending habits and it just so happens that occurred overnight. On the Earnings Call one analyst joked that does jeff bezos no how successful amazon is same store pick up, a number of whole food stores that can pick up deliveries on triple this quarter we are adapting and looking at something that changed and created things for the new vooirs, especially the entertainment area alphabet is more affected by the pandemic you can see the shares are under performing the other tech giants this morning you cant help but note that while amazon is known for groceries and advertising, they are smaller projects, they are still losing money lets bring a closer look at the quarters amazon getting a number of price targets at 4,000 that would apply a market yeah, it certainly
Regarding microsoft. Some people did not like the quarter but now we have something that puts them right it not passing in terms of the growth google and facebook among a certain demographic that people want which is the 18yearold demographic. I go on tiktok and there is a good one right now about Federal Express delivering packages versus u. P. S. Versus the post office david, your kids may like it at the same time, its got a lot of viewers it does 80 million here in the states. Yes, one of mine does typically it does skew more female than male and the other one doesnt but this is a fascinating situation, guys, for any number of reasons unlike anything i can recall having seen in part because the government is so deeply involved inbasically dictating the potential sale of a business to one company. And it really ends up being one company. You know, as you guys know, ive been following this to a large extent over the last few weeks and it was a difficult thing to imagine. How would go
Thats what we are trying to achieve. Roche sees profits and sales fall in the first half but a turnaround has already begun helping with the full year outlook. Since june and now july, hospitals have opened again and patients are returning to hospitals. We see our sales recovering. Thats why we returned our initialo initial outlook. Sales of unilever as sales of ben and jerrys and more in north american sales the outbreak continues to weigh in many markets. I would say latin america is in the throws of it. We are seeing significant increase in africa and south asian continents topping the stoxx 600 sending shares in the french ad firm and the british rival wpp higher a very warm welcome to strooinz lets kick off what we heard from roche maintaining the full year outlook. Blaming the 4 slide in sales and 5 contraction on the decline of net hospital visits due to the coronavirus pandemic. Telling cnbc earlier that company has started to see hospital visits recover. You had seen a strong
Florida. I recognize the gentleman from north dakota for five minutes. Bezos, my colleagues brought up they were discussing thirdparty sellers this policy specifically noted possible loopholes that allow amazon to review nonpublic and aggregate data to inform private rams even in instances where there are only a few thirdparty sellers. Where exactly does amazon draw the line . Data would bee more than one seller . The person seeing the report would have no way of knowing how rs are inside that group or what the breakdown would be between those sellers. That is different from a list or product ranking which we do make public. Does amazon allow the use of aggregate data to inform private label amazon brands when there only a few sellers for a product . Does amazon look at i could dictate up when there are only two sellers of a product . Yes, sir. Isand my correct amazon conducting an internal investigation on the use of thirdparty data . Are basically trying to understand some of the ane
Industry. They took questions about the use of thirdparty seller data and allegations of anticonservative bias. The subcommittee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess at any time. Welcome to todays hearing on marketing power. Amazon, apple, facebook, and google. I would like to remind members we have established a distribution list dedicated to circulating specific motions or other written materials members might want as part of our hearing today. If you would like to submit materials, submit them to the email address distributed to your offices. We will circulate materials as quickly as we can. Thatld also remind members face coverings are required for all meetings in an enclosed space such as Committee Hearings. I expect all members on both sides of the aisle to wear a mask except when you are speaking. I recognize myself for an opening bateman Opening Statement. This committee launched an investigation into Digital Markets to document compe