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aspirations. guys.e halal its earnings.ith quarterly profit rose to $7.75 billion. the jump in iphone sales making up for the drop in ipads. microsoft out with its earnings after the close. office fell shy of estimates. half it down by the acquisition of nokia s handset business. and herbalife sides shares rise getting more than 25% as the lachman failed to contest ackman failedll to convince investors there was fraud. cory johnson joins us from san francisco. let s go through microsoft. how did the company performed during the quarter? gross margins slipped but we have seen that going on for the past couple of months. we were talking about the surface. i was just asking. spent. million somebody out there is buying a lot of surfaces. maybe validating the surface team we will slope will file later. how much? $409 million. a lot of money to develop things like the surface and the xbox and a lot of software. talk about the profit margins. they are declining. as t
once known as the face of the mtv movie awards, he has since become one of the most prominent voices of the british left. he has taken part in anti-austerity protests, spoken at occupy wall street and marched with the hacker collective anonymous. a recovering addict himself, russell brand has also become a leading critic of britain s drug laws. it is not important we regard people suffering from addiction with compassion and there is a pragmatic rather than some bolick approach to treating it. i think [indiscernible] it is kind of symbolic and not really functional. id. see how it especially helps. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. we are broadcasting from london. the top military officer in the united states has said he is considering sending u.s. combat troops back to iraq. testifying before a house panel, chairman of the joint chiefs of staff general martin dempsey said the united states
have wealth and power of the people who need to change. today, british comedian, actor and activist russell brand for the hour. he is out with a new book, simply titled revolution. once known as the face of the mtv movie awards, he has since become one of the most prominent voices of the british left. he has taken part in anti-austerity protests, spoken at occupy wall street and marched with the hacker collective anonymous. a recovering addict himself, russell brand has also become a leading critic of britain s drug laws. it is not important we regard people suffering from addiction with compassion and there is a pragmatic rather than some bolick approach to treating it. i think [indiscernible] it is kind of symbolic and not really functional. id. see how it especially helps. all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i m amy goodman. we are broadcasting from london. the top military officer in the united states
will tell me how the new york yankees have created a foundation for a global rant. all that and more over the next hour but first let s get headlines from our radio cohost carol massar. thank you very much. we start off with take two interactive. reporting earnings that beat analyst estimates. its outlook for the quarter a little bit of a mess falling short of expectations. maybe video games could have retail sales purchases increase in the month of april and followed a revised 1.5% jump in march that marked the biggest gain in four years in the coca-cola company will become your green mountain s largest shareholder. coca-cola is doubling down on keurig coffee brewers. pfizer, the drug giant, is to consider sweeney it s $102 billion bid to buy the u.k. drugmaker astrazeneca. this is a showdown between two big pharmaceutical companies as well as politicians here and in europe. at issue is whether pfizer will cut jobs if it buys astrazeneca. ande is shannon pettypiece broza