Both Beat Expectations on earnings and revenue, thanks in no small part to investments in artificial intelligence. One Stand Out Spot for alphabet was google cloud revenue, whichjumped 28 in 01. A lot of Generative Ai Tools that rely on the cloud to reach customers. Alphabet announced some good news for investors, its first ever dividend of 20 cents per share, and first ever dividend of 20 cents pershare, and an first ever dividend of 20 cents per share, and an additional 70 billion buy back. That initially sent shares into double digits after the bell. And for microsofts part, its Intelligent Cloud Division delivered greater revenue than expected thanks to Microsoft Partnership but with openai, the creator of chatgpt. Shares rose on the news. And together, they should go some way through restoring confidence in the tech sector which was shaken wednesday after metas stock fell after its own Earnings Report and after the market was rattled by slowing us gdp and stubborn inflation. In ot
President xi told Secretary Blinken that china and the us should be partners rather than rivals. Mr blinken for his part raised concerns over chinas support for russia in its invasion of ukraine. He also raised what he described as chinas unfair Trade Practices in a number of Key Industries that will drive the 21st century economy. Solar panels, Electric Vehicles and the batteries that power them. China alone is producing more than 100 of Global Demand for these products, flooding markets, undermining competition, putting at Risk Livelihoods and businesses around the world. Now, this is a movie that weve seen before, and we know how it ends, with american businesses shuttered and american jobs lost. President biden will not let this happen on his watch. Lets speak now to our north America Business correspondent, erin delmore. In the background to this meeting was a warning we heard from President Biden recently that more tariffs on chinese imports could be on the way. What does this me
the production company podot. also with us is lewis goodall from the news agents podcast and tony pastor, the man behind goalhanger, which is the podcast production company he set up with gary lineker and makes all sorts of hit podcasts, including the rest is history, the rest is politics. there s something very intimate about listening to a podcast i mean, in many ways, a bit like radio where people have their headphones on, they re cooking, they re commuting, they re walking the dog and they get very, very close to the people in theirears. they develop a relationship with the people they re listening to on a regular basis. and we find that when we do live events, a lot of the audience comes up to our hosts and treats them like friends, like they already know them and we have to sort of remind ourtalent, our hosts, that, you know, to expect this and it s just one of those quirks that, in part, i think it s the nature of the way you listen to the shows. here s a quote to
have their headphones on, they re cooking, they re commuting, they re walking the dog and they get very, very close to the people in their ears. they develop a relationship with the people they re listening to on a regular basis. and we find that when we do live events, a lot of the audience comes up to our hosts and treats them like friends, like they already know them and we have to sort of remind ourtalent, our hosts, that, you know, to expect this. and it sjust one of those quirks that, in part, i think it s the nature of the way you listen to the shows. here s a quote to start us off. it s from an annual report on digital news from the reuters institute for the study ofjournalism. it came out on monday and describes news podcasting as, a bright spot for publishers which attracts younger, well educated listeners . given that there aren t so many bright spots for many news organisations at the moment, that is something to hold on to, and i wanted to open up to everyone f
a lot of the audience comes up to our hosts and treats them like friends, like they already know them. and we have to sort of remind our talent, our hosts, that, you know, to expect this. and it sjust one of those quirks that, in part, i think it s the nature of the way you listen to the shows. here s a quote to start us off. it s from an annual report on digital news from the reuters institute for the study ofjournalism. it came out on monday and describes news podcasting as, a bright spot for publishers, which attracts younger, well educated listeners. given that there aren t so many bright spots for many news organisations at the moment, that is something to hold on to and i wanted to open up to everyone first. lewis, you re here. you ve covered many an election over your very young life. you make me sound so old. yeah, not that old. but you ve managed to get in on a few elections. but could you have ever seen that podcasting would be so central to this one? well, i def