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but first to our lead yahoo! shares are lower in the biggest quarterly dip since 2009. sales are down 8% year-over-year. marissa mayer in her fourth year at the helm of the company with little to show for it. yahoo! still struggling to hold on in key areas like mobile advertising. the company is still wrestling with its thorny spinoff of the alibaba state. discuss, isow to crawford. this quarter is interesting. were going to start with alibaba. quite literally the biggest and yahoo! and it s not a part of yahoo! it all. this thing is looming. there are a lot of questions around what is going to happen. we expect to hear something by the end of the year. looks like we re not going to hear that. it s going to get pushed out. the irs has weighed in. cory: they have waited and they have waited. they have looked at it but they have not said yes or no. you expect that they would give some sort of blessing, but it looks like to me, if i am a yahoo! shareholder, i m going t ....
but first to our lead yahoo! shares are lower in the biggest quarterly dip since 2009. marissa mayer in her fourth year at the helm of the company with little to show for it. yahoo! still struggling to hold on in key areas like mobile advertising. still wrestling with its thorny spinoff of the alibaba stake. this quarter is interesting. going to start with alibaba. quite literally the biggest and yahoo! and it s not a part of yahoo! it all. this thing is looming. there s a lot of questions about what is going to happen. we expect to hear something by the end of the year. looks like we re not going to hear that. it s going to get pushed out. the irs has waited. cory: they have waited and they have waited. you expect that they would give some sort of blessing, but it looks like to me, if i am a yahoo! shareholder, i m going to get this spin co and i have no idea what the irs is going to do that. and i wonder what it will be like from january to december because the ta ....
president. good evening, and welcome to c-span series first ladies: influence and image. tonight is the story of barbara pierce bush, the wife of our 41st president, george herbert walker bush. and here for the next 90 minutes to tell us more about her life and her influence are two guests. myra gutin is the barbara bush biographer, part of that first lady series we ve turned to so often during this series this year. she s a first ladies scholar, and she teaches at rider university in lawrenceville, new jersey. thanks very much for being here with us. ms. gutin: my pleasure. ms. swain: jeffrey engel is the founding director of the center for presidential history at southern methodist university. he s the author of one book on george bush s foreign policy and at work on another one. thank you for being here tonight. mr. engel: good to be here. ms. swain: now, we heard barbara bush at the outset talk about the fact that, when she became first lady, her words had much mo ....
west coast ports. if no deal is reached, perez was to move talks to washington. a federal mediator was unable to broker a deal. the nine-month standoff as hit ports from san diego to seattle and up and down the coast and cargo movement cut in half according to the pacific maritime association. uber drivers in paris are on the lookout for a special police unit, the squad is charged with enforcing a taxi law that bans uber writes with unlicensed drivers. since january, 110 drivers have been busted. major league baseball trying to speed up the game with some new rules. this season, batters must keep at least one foot in the batters box. players must return to the field quickly after commercial breaks and managers must stay in the dugout during replay challenges. the average game lester clocked in at three hours and two minutes, up from two hours and 33 minutes in 1981. the giants won the world series. we have a special show. we are calling it game on. deep dive into the ra ....
a federal mediator was unable to broker a deal. the nine-month standoff as hit ports from san diego to seattle and up and down the coast and cargo movement cut in half according to the pacific maritime association. uber drivers in paris are on the lookout for a special police unit, the squad is charged with enforcing a taxi law that bans uber writes with unlicensed drivers. since january, 110 drivers have been busted. major league baseball trying to speed up the game with some new rules. this season, batters must keep at least one foot in the batters box. players must return to the field quickly after commercial breaks, and managers must stay in the dugout during replay challenges. the average game lester clocked in at three hours and two minutes, up from two hours and 33 minutes in 1981. the giants won the world series. we have a special show. we are calling it game on. deep dive into the rapidly changing gaming industry. the smash hit kim kardashian in hollywood. ho ....