Book publishing at harpercollins was one of the bright spots. Google and barnes noble are teaming up to take on a common rival, amazon. Barnes noble books are now being offered for sameday delivery in select cities. This coming after amazon expanded its sameday delivery program. Our lead story of the day. The clock is ticking for zyngas ceo to turn around the once dominant social game maker. The Second Quarter was another weak one. Revenue down 34 percent and zynga posting a loss of more than 62 million. The Company Announced new games with the nfl, looney tunes, and tiger woods, but some alreadyplanned games are being pushed back to allow more time to transition to mobile. Zynga, once dominant in social gaming, is facing a tough time. How did the company get into this situation in the first place . Cory johnson has a look. In the beginning, a social Gaming Company was started by harvard mba mark pincus. Named for his bulldog, it became zynga and had the good fortune to tie itself to a
Journal and New York Post fell 6 . Book publishing at harpercollins was one of the bright spots. Google and barnes noble are teaming up to take on a common rival, amazon. Barnes noble books are now being offered for sameday delivery in select cities. This coming after amazon expanded its sameday delivery program. Our lead story of the day. The clock is ticking for zyngas ceo to turn around the once dominant social game maker. The Second Quarter was another week one. Down 34 percent and zynga posting a loss of more than 52 million. The Company Announced new games with the nfl, looney tunes, and tiger woods, but some alreadyplanned games are being pushed back to allow more time to transition to mobile. Dominant in social gaming, is facing a tough time. How did the company get into this situation in the first place . Cory johnson has a look. In the beginning, a social Gaming Company was started by harvard mba mark pincus. Named for his bulldog, it became zynga and had the good fortune to
Massive drop in users and revenue. Lift is trying to provoke car pooling with a new feature called lift line and matches riders who are going to the same area and offers them a discount of up to 60 to share a ride. The cofounder john zimmer joins us to share all about it. Our lead story, google and barnes noble are worried about competition from amazon so the companies are teaming up with the aim of swiping some customers away from the e commerce giant. Starting today, barnes noble will offer sameday deliveries from local stores through google shopping express. Right now the service is only available here in the bay area, west l. A. , and manhattan. The news coming a day after amazon expanded its own Sameday Service to a total of 10 cities. Our editor at large joins us along with a partner from s. K. Ventures, a former equities analyst and contributing bloomberg editor, with us from san diego. Paul, could this really get customers from amazon or is it a hail mary . I think its wacky. I
Bloombergs European Headquarters in london. Im anna edwards. Greece cross the first of many hurdles today by paying its obligation to the imf. What is next for the country that is still locked up in talks with creditors over reforms . For more, we are joined by manus cranny in paris at the same event as greeces finance minister, yanis varoufakis. Now that this bill has been paid, will greece make it this month . What is the next crunch time . Hopefully so. There is one billion still to be rolled over next week. There is the 1. 5 billion euros to be paid in pensions. Greece hasnt had any Financial Aid since last august. It has been depleting cash reserves quickly and heavily. Theres not much left in the greek offers. Thats for sure. The republic has been tapping reserves from every source imaginable. There hasnt been a very heavy burden from the payments front. I think that was a technicality. The greek republic will not default on that debt. I think the april 24 meeting of the eurogrou
Themselves the eurozone as a ruler is not doing well. In germany, the growth is less than it is outside the eurozone. Matt not just any french economist. Grease cut a deal two months ago with european officials to get a 7. 5 billion more. Alexis tsipras is offering stocks in Hong Kong Hit a sevenyear high today. Investors from china power to the surge. Mainland authorities recently made it easier for investors to use a link with a hong kong exchange. Oil prices are slipping again after a government report of inventories far as he did far exceeded estimates. There is a new boss in the business today. Petro china is the worlds Biggest Energy company. Its market value is 333 billion. The jury that convicted the Boston Marathon bomber now must decide whether he will die for his crimes. He has been found guilty on all 30 counts against him for the attack two years ago. He faces one of just two outcomes life in prison or the Death Penalty. The governor of massachusetts knows what his decisio