a.m. at google headquarters in california 11:00 a.m. on wall street and squawk alley is live good tugs morniesday morninm carl quintanilla very busy morning in the markets today. we try to get back to 3440 or so q-3 earnings a part of the big news stimulus watch, we ll learn more in the coming hour or two. but we re going to begin in washington justice files this landmark antitrust suit against google and we have more on that i m still working many i way through this 64-page lawsuit that the justice department has filed against google in which the department allege that s google sant w anti-compev behave wror is going on for years and still going on and it may be getting worse in the complaint, the justice department writes that google entered into exclusionariy agreements including tying arrangements and engaged in anti-competitive lockup and block rivals the department says google has taken a page from microsoft s playbook to sustain the monopolies and even instruct
before they have procedural votes. bottom line i do not expect any rapid action on this with the house dead set opposed to whatever the senate will come with, even if mitch mcconnell gets the votes he needs ultimately to get this through. nfl football returns. thursday night football tonight. all eyes on the kansas city chiefs, houston texans. the stadium can hold 76,000 people i m told. it is going to be at 22% of capacity, so 15,000 folks in the stands. what is odd, there will not be mascot the or cheerleaders. it will be very thin population on the ground besides players and coaches. it might seem a little weird but football is on. we ll look at potential impact what we might be seeing and might not be seeing. meanwhile politics is it still on. the president plans to visit michigan today, a battleground state he won by little more than 10,000. polls are tightening. blake burman. reporter: six presidential, president trump flipped it around by slimmest of margin, .2%. joe
peter: this week on the communicators, we want to introduce you to luther lowe, who is the senior vice president for public policy for a site called yelp. mr. lowe, what exactly is yelp, and what do you do? luther: thank you for having me on today, peter. it is a pleasure. yelp is a website and popular consumer application that allows people to connect with great local businesses. it is a service that empowers and protects consumers, allows people to discover great local gems, at a way for consumers to warn fellow consumers about not so great businesses. host: how many visitors a month to have? luther: depending on how you break it out, there are folks who access it via mobile web, the website, the app, it is north of 100 million people then we have 200 million reviews that have been submitted. host: how do you make money? luther: yelp is a vertical search engine, not unlike google. if i do a search for a dentist in san diego, there are handful of dentists who are paying to
people to connect with state and local businesses. it s a service that empowers and protects consumers, allows people to discover great local gyms and a way for consumers to warn fellow consumers about not serving businesses. host: how many visitors a month did you have? guest: depending on how you want to break it out, there s folks that access it via mobile web, via the website, via the app. it s about, north of 100 million people and then we had over 200 million reviews that have been submitted. host: how do you make money? guest: not unlike services like google, search engines, it is a vertical search engine, basically if i do a search for a dentist in san diego, there are a handful of dentists who are paying to basically have a sponsored clearly labeled as such link that lives up of the organic search results and, therefore, they get more discovery of the business and more people, or patients coming through their the door. host: you are the senior vp for public
director of internet ethics, alex damas, the director of the stanford internet observatory and the director of journalism and media ethics at markkula center. this evening is co-presented with the markkula center for applied ethics. d ss event is part of kqu series on common ground. it is an initiative ream people together for civil discourse, featuring journalists hosting provocative conversations about politics, policy, art, culture, science and technology. reckoning with the disagreement among us about how to face the future of economic, culture and environmental uncertainty. this series asks what are our shared responsibilities to the common good? next in the series if you have an open calendar is this tuesday at 7:00 p.m., at the san francisco exploratory them we will look at how to overcome the polarization. on to tonight s topic. democracy is under attack worldwide. populism is on the rise. disinformation s tool number one and social media is the platform of choice. wh