Iranian prison. He was one of four u. S. Citizens swap as part of a prisoner last week. I am emily chang. I am emily chang. This is bloomberg west. Another record quarter for facebook as it makes it in for mobile video and instagram. Share surpassed 100 in afterhours trading. Ebay shares tank. Apple,reet weighs in on who is cutting their price target and why . Facebook crushing fourthquarter earnings as the Company Continues to rake in ad revenue from video, mobile, and instagram. Overall revenue was 5. 8 billion, up 57 year over year. Shares spiking after hours, as 9 . As 9 , on news that about aandberg talked shift on a conference call. Theirthey want to reach customers where they are, mobile is essential. Our conversations with clients have shifted to how. Emily here with me to break it all down is our next guest and cory johnson. I heard you refer to facebook earnings with a word you have Never Associated with the company before fantastic. Give me the high points. What is so fantas
The yield is up after the fed minutes suggest the hawks are a little bit restless and as for europe we continue to watch the death toll in ukraine. The eu does hold an emergency meeting today. It is facebooks largest ever acquisition by far, the social network whying messaging Service Whatsapp and Mark Zuckerberg said the deal came together in ten days and some of the details are beginning to fill in. Closing the deal over chocolatecovered strawberries but a lot of metrics being thrown around, david, 42 a user and questions of how quickly this company can grow. Yeah. Of course, the thought being at 450 million users perhaps they can get to a billion. It is considered a communications platform. It is not about advertising. It is about communications. It is a very Popular Platform in europe. The user interface is said to be very slick. Given that most of the 55 employees that work at this company are engineers. But, carl, you know, there are many people who might want to ven tture its 19
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Hes keeping a close eye on the u. S. Economy. To think about financial markets, they reflect the economy. What we see this month when you see the statistics is it is as strong as it was last month, maybe Even Stronger it. You hope that comes through in america continues to make progress because of you look around the world, other places are. Not as growing up as fast 125,000ank signed up apple pay customers in the first day it was available. One of apple pays competitors have already been hacked and has not officially launched yet. Notifieday current c customers but some email addresses were compromised. Cvs and rite aid recently blocked apple pay. Ibm and twitter have announced a new take analytics partnership. Ibm Software Including its watson unit will be able to mind twitter posts to see what. Credit clients are saying about an issue this comes as both companies see to boost growth. How big a setback is the explosion of the and terrace rocket to the private space race . This was th