insight, 100 other companies that launched data and analysis. would you have done anything differently? do you feel you lost a competitive advantage by letting them take market share? we have by far more users than any of them. we have 1 million active users a week. that alone, the reason people come to us because our data is exceptional and people expect to see it. we don t put pay while the head of the data itself. we democratized the data set allowing anyone interested, now we have given tools on top of that so we analyze the data and extract the value you are looking for from the data. we can check. these guys are a little bit ahead. we launched the obligation. we have other revenue streams, a licensing business, 100 customers paying for the feedback of our cis and advertisements as well. this is our next foray into the revenue stream. if you had been the ceo years ago, would you have done anything differently? i don t think so. all these years, all this str
islamic state to carry out attacks in rome. authorities arrested the man and his wife. they were of the allegedly planning to move from their home in iran to i sold territory. to isil territory. i m mark crumpton. bloomberg west is next. emily: i m emily chang and this is bloomberg west. up, amazon shares surge after sales topped estimates. jeff bezos is showing investors he can deliver profits and keep his side projects. less, linkedin surprised the industry with the earnings be. shares popping off the news. could the company not be as dire as beer. and an interview with biz stone. first, to our lead. amazon shares popping 12% in extended trading. the e-commerce giant reported a first-quarter revenue of just over $29 billion. operating profits were $1.7 billion. amazon web services continue to be a juggernaut for the company. the cloud computing arm is generating over 2.5 ilion dollars in revenue, and 64% year-over-year growth. this adds to evidence that the company
deals were announced or offered, even if they are not done. the s&p is gaining a little traction thanks to facebook. the dow was being held back to some extent. when i look at the s&p 500 as emblematic as what is going on in the markets and look at the biggest movers, it is a mixture. you have facebook on the list and when you look at facebook s future growth, a lot of analysts are saying the bulk of the revenue increase last quarter. all this money comes from facebook itself. not even monetizing messenger or instagram. analysts are looking for future growth in the company. st. jude medical getting a buyout offer $25 billion with bristol-myers squibb. it is a mixture of earnings and m&a driving these performers. take a look at the latest on the earnings in the s&p 500. here is the current quarter. a little bit of a decline in sales. now, more than half of the s&p 500 members have reported. a decline of less than 6%. going into it it was looking like 10%. companies always beat
denies any involvement in the airstrike. a senior u.s. official says about 16 military personnel have been disciplined for mistakes leading to the bombing of a civilian hospital in afghanistan last year. the service members received administrative punishments. no criminal charges were filed. a moroccan born man arrested an investigation had specific orders from the islamic state to carry out attacks in rome. allegedly planning to move from oman to isolate territory. emily: i m emily chang and this is bloomberg west. coming up, amazon shares surge after sales topped estimates. jeff bezos is showing investors he can deliver profits and keep his side projects. linkedin surprised the industry with the earnings be. shares popping off the news. could the company not be as dire as beer. and an interview with biz stone. first, to our lead. amazon shares popping 12% in extended trading. the e-commerce giant reported a first-quarter revenue of just over $29 billion. operating profi
this is a special edition of today at the white house with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from washington, d.c. and good morning, everybody. welcome to a special edition of today on this tuesday morning. we re on the steps of the white house. i have to say that qualifies as special. we are on the north portico, a moment of history for us, for this show and where so much history has been made. on the cool scale this one is off the charts. we want to say thank you to the white house and the obamas and everyone here for the access they have granted us. it s unbelievable. they have rolled out the red carpet, the blue carpet and green carpet and so much to show you. shall we go inside, shall we knock. just for you, ladies, it s cold out. i m going to knock loudly. hope they are not late sleepers. welcome to the white house. the obamas have so graciously invited you back to my old stomping grounds. seems like a time warp here. i m going to shut the front doo