To make money, or not to make money. That is the question. No, not for you the investor. Even if you didnt quite prevail, dow only finishing up 14 points, nasdaq falling. 93 . No, im talking about the importance or lack thereof of making money if youre a younger company. One thats just coming public, developing something new, innovating and perhaps trying, yes, to take over the world. I want to focus on this concept because of where were coming from today. The annual dream force conference formed by mark ben more than 130,000 faithful journey in what some would require, yes, a woodstock for entrepreneurs and innovators. Technology no differently than the internet pioneers did before them and the personal computer creators did way back in the late 1980s. Turning the tech world upside down. Then again maybe its just a a woodstock for geeks. Anyway, we need to go deep into the dream force psyche, not just because its a celebration in the new world one dominated by the holy trinity of soci
Year, this past year 2013, you know there is still a lot of locations that are opened and we have not gotten to them. In our prioritization meeting we are taking care of those as quickly as we can. We have some outreach items that i just wanted to go over. The mod website has a Service Request link. So anyone that wants to put in a request can go to the mod website. We have wer try the to update the website for mod sites. We have information cards that we hand out. I have some here at the front table. Weve had 3 x 5 and went up to 4 x 6 and now we are going to have 5 x 7 cards to hand out at meetings and give to supervisors at our offices. A couple years ago we put bus ads in the munis buses and we had requests come in. So we are going to do that again. Mod put a one page add in the voter pamphlet last november. Well work with mod with trying to do that. That seems to be a great way to get the word out. So here we have this next one, we have a photo. This is from a recent sunday street
A viral marketing. A discussion about how ads are creating advertising buzz. Nexthat and more over the hour. First, headlines from my radio cohost carol massar. I love the devil baby. Lets get to headlines. Jc plan jcpenney is planning to a lemonade about 2000 jobs to help save 65 million a year. The closings represent about 3 jcpenney stores. The dell cuts would be about 2 of its workforce. Bank of america posted quarterly profits that more than quadrupled, beating wall street estimates. Fourth quarter net income rose 7323. 44 billion from just 732 million a year earlier. Thebiggest railroad in eastern u. S. Reported Fourth Quarter profit that missed estimates for the first time in two years. Declined. Al shipments net income slid more than 5 . We will be talking to the cfo of csx tomorrow. Our senior markets correspondent julie hyman joins us with more on jcpenney, the news that the company is going to be shattering 33 stores and laying off 2000 people. Yet the stock moved higher as
Share. The current agreement is around 3. And gas prices are up a dime since last week. Regular unleaded in 3. 56 per gallon on average. Tim mulholland of china America Capital joins us on this monday morning for a closer look at the markets. We have to talk about the snow situation. How did it affect the market even on friday . On friday we saw such a sharp dropoff in volume. The market in general, volume has been nothing to really write home about, because it has been subdued. And that usually happens in this lowvolatility kind of oneway street, non eventful marketplace. So, when you get a weather concern, it is even less of an incentive for traders to participate in the market. So, a drop off in volume is really a natural occurrence in this environment. You are just back from china. What did you find there . Lots of pollution. I was in beijing for two days. I have been in china numerous times, and this was by far the worst ive ever seen it. But, aside from that, you look at the econ
What weve done around the city. First is, a before picture, a corner at athens and excels yoir. This shows no curb ramps which is not ak sybls accessible and they have the after pictures that shows the new sidewalks and detectable tiles the yellow tiles and new curb and gutter and the street paving just outside that gutter to make a good transition from the new work to the street. This is carla because i always have to Say Something about curb ramps. Whats helpful to note here is that the city set a standard that we were going to construct curb ramps because its important to align them with the crosswalks so people with low vision and so people are not unsafe in traffic areas. Looks like the ada follows the rule and this is the national standard. It will be two required in the future. Right. That directionality as well. Weve been doing that for nearly 10 years thats part of our standards to putten. If there is a crosswalk we need a curb ramp with that crosswalk and its directional with