Good monday morning welcome to squawk squawk im jon fortt with Carl Quintanilla and julia. Were in the final stretch of 2020 were focused on two big ipos, airbnb and doordash. Airbnb is bouncing back strong doordash saw demands surge both of those companies seeing encouraging demand for shares and to define the future of the gig and sharing economies. Leslie picker has the latest on the ipo process. Its important to underscore the rarety of this level of issuance in a single week. Excluding spacs, were expecting to see more than 7 billion worth of ipos this week. Since the start of 2014, only three other weeks have surpassed that kind of volume. Most recently, in mid september there was, if you remember, there was a big week of software debuts unity, jay frog went public. The only week thats saw greater issuance was in may of 2019 when uber went public and then september 2014 when alibaba went public what is different this time, though, is that the billions of dollars in new stock is c
Right to report to activists one of a new threat to Media Freedom as hong kong clamps down on journalists and getting a little help from outer space we look at how satellites are helping to reduce the Environmental Impact of farms. And install the l. A. Lakers reach the n. B. A. Finals for the 1st time in a decade Le Bron James ladies came to when i was the Denver Nuggets in game 5 of the western conference. So azerbaijan has accused armenia of starting a new war after a major escalation over the disputed theyre going to cut about a region the violence began early this morning and both sides are trading blame amenia has declared martial law and fully mobilized its military it says the number of soldiers has been killed as well the your opinion. Russia and iran are all calling for a cease fire turkey is backing as a passion and has called on armenians to stand against their government. Spends our coverage. On meanies Defense Ministry tweeted these videos on sunday morning it says the sh
Distancing social from future tense in partnership, a partnership of slate, new America Foundation and Arizona State university. Today were talking about the future of books and then joined by Priscilla Painton who is Vice President and executive editor of simon schuster, and Brandon Tensley was the National Political writer for cnn politics. Hi, priscilla and brandon. I cant hear you have to unmute. A, nice to be here. Thanks for having us. When i was asked to moderate this, one of the things that it brought up, brought to mind area broader in my memory was how in the early 2000s it seemed like everywhere you went there was like a Panel Discussion of the future books and people making a lot of predictions about the future of books and how things had to change and which way they needed to go, and that was all tied to the emergence of ebooks and ebook technology. Most of the people said at the time, did not turn out to be true. Ebooks did not take over from print books. In particular, y
Hello everyone. Thank you for turning out. I am laura miller and the books and poultry columnist for slate. Com. This is another social distancing social from [inaudible] in partnership with a partnership of slate, new American Foundation and Arizona State university. Today were talking about the future of books and im joined by priscilla who is Vice President and executive editor of simon schuster, Brandon Hensley is the National Political writer for cnn politics. Hello, priscilla and brandon. I cant hear you. You have to unmute. Hello, nice to see you. Thank you for having us. When i was asked to moderate this one of the things that it brought up or brought to mind or brought up in my memory was how in the early 2000s it seems like everywhere you went there was a discussion of the future of books and people making a lot of predictions about the future of books and how things had to change and which way they needed to go and that was all tied to the emergence of ebooks and ebook techn
Will also look at a u. K. Report bringing into focus the severe impact the coronavirus pandemic is having on many young and vulnerable minds. Almost 500000000000. 00 in extra Financial Aid has been approved by the u. S. Senate to help businesses and hospitals struggling under the coronavirus pandemic the house of representatives will vote on this on thursday it would be the 4th such package adding up to about 3 trillion dollars in all will start with the support from my counter in washington d. C. With many senators working from home the boat with take them by voice all in favor say aye. Pose no yes appear to have it this follows intense negotiation between the white house and congress in recent days. At the core of our agreement is 320000000000 more for the Paycheck Protection Program which is already saving millions of Small Business jobs and helping americans get paychecks instead of potentially. Democrats successfully 4 to include 75000000000. 00 for hospitals and 25000000000. 00 f