Tmobile and sprint and they said i would hurt the consumers spcial for those in local income and minorities. It would cut the weless providers from four to three and meanwhile, the number of antitrust inves against google, facebook and apple and amazon areg. Grow here to discuss are law professor kathlyn sandoval and tech editor and San Francisco bureau chief, jeremy owens. Nice to have both of you. Thanks for having me. On the proposed me ger of sprint and tmobile there are ten states led by new york and california filing suit to block it. Professor sandoval, youre a former commissioner of the lifornia Public Utilities commission. What are your concerns about the proposed mergernd how would it affect consumers . Right. Im not thankou so much for the invitation. Im an antitrust law professor. Sboth as a former regulator and as an antitrust professor, a couple of tngs jumped out at me. First of all, the complaint eleges that tmob and sprint already have over half of the market share in
Tmobile and sprint and they said it would hurt the consumers special for tose in local income and minorities. It would cut the wireless providers from four to three and meanwhile, the number of antitrust invests against google, facebook and apple and amazon are growing. Here to discuss are law professor kathlynal sandand tech editor and San Francisco bureau chief, jeremy owens. Nice to have both of you. Thanks for having me. On the proposed mergerr of t and tmobile there are ten states led byor newand california filing suit to block it. Professor sandoval, youre a former commissioner of the ic california pu utilities commission. What are your concerns about the proposed merger and how would it affectum cos . Right. Im not thank you so much for the invitation. Im an antitrusw professor. So both as a former regulator and as an antitrust professor, a couple of thingsou jumped at me. First of all, the complaint alleges that tmobile and sprint already have over half of the market share in b
Yesterday, they were off the highs of the session this morning green arrows are indicated once again, but modest advances the doi ww was up by 10 1 2 poi, the nasdaq up by 3, the s p up by 3 the gains have been significant this year. Have we seen 71 days for the dow . 71 records. But 22,000 on the point 2,000 p before we got to the new year. I think i heard President Trump say 85 that could have been from the election to the first of the year thats probably what it was. Bitcoin today, did you see it . Yes we should probably show that we show it every time. We will show it after the tenyear tenyear is back under 2. 50 but it was above 2. 50 at one point yesterday. The highest weve seen since june or earlier. Maybe april. You look at the tenyear note, yielding 2. 486 . Looking at bitcoin actually its coming up a bit. Some of the dbig stories theres bitcoin okay. Its not so we got our first christmas vacation vignette out of the way on the opening there will be a few of those a great movi
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Up our first guest. Please welcome david marcus from Facebook Messenger and our moderator. Thank you for joining us today. Thanks for having me. Messenger is always strived to be different from sms. First Group Texting and embraced stickers, animated gifts, what you see as the next big differentiator . We really, really like a realtime communications. As you have seen recently, we Just Announced and opened up to everyone this new thing we call instant video that enables you to have video. It is like you unmute your video for the other press to see while you type in you can start streaming while the other person had the honor a bus or a meeting and type and see you or see what you want to show them. Were going to continue investing in realtime communications. One of the things we have not talked about is we have over 300 million active users of video. That makes message or one of the biggest realtime apps in the world. Jason your not had video calling for very long, about a year ago. Te