Hello, a very warm welcome. It is good to have you with us. The tech giants apple, google and microsoft, have all smashed analyst expectations, in updates they have given after the bell on wall street. Apple s profits nearly doubled to $21. 7 billion in the three months to 30 june, as customers bought pricier sg iphones. Google s parent company, alphabet, also reported on tuesday that quarterly sales and profits had surged to record highs. Its video platform youtube saw advertising revenuejump to $7 billion in the quarter. And microsoft saw a $16. 5 billion profit at the same time, due to huge demand for its cloud services and games. Joining me now is rob kniaz, who s the founding partner at hoxton ventures. Good to have you with us. When we look at these figures, they say they smashed expectation but we had to all rely on technology and things like cloud services people have become more dependent on. Is this surely not in line with what people were expecting? it is not far away from e