interest, think facebook. facebook s data breach was revealed that same month. that prompted lawmakers on both sides of the atlantic to call for stricter regulation and led to ceo mark zuckerberg s grill before congress. now google s ceo will head to capitol hill this year. he will likely be asked about google s decision to conceal this breach for months. google plus launched as a rival to facebook in and now it s bye-bye google plus. i never understood it to begin with. thanks so much, romans. appreciate. you may have heard some supporters of the president say he is coming off his biggest week in the office. is that the case? john avalon has a reality check next. cnn money now brought to you
is going to continue to get stronger and stronger. the eye is very visible. the storm is enteroing in intensity and growing in power. hurricane warnings are posted all along the gulf coast. it is not going to slow down. thank you for all of the updates in real time. we appreciate the snashl hurricane center getting them out to everyone. it is time for cnnist in business now. google will shut down its social network google plus. the timing is interesting. it announced the closure after news hit that a security bug affected hundreds of thousands of users. the glitch that google didn t want you to know about is finally exposed n. march google discovered and patched a security bug in google plus but it did not tell users. google says there was no evidence any data was exposed. but the wreath journal says google stayed quiet for a different reason, to avoid scrutiny. disclosure would mean regulatory
beginning of the year a large portion of the turkish population is on the minimum wage which is set by the government and it s a major dilemma coming because if the government doesn t allow wages three people a country really. took a starting price a small girl jenkins of the institute for security and development thank you for your thoughts thank you. and staying in turkey the country is slapping import quotas on steel in a bid to protect its domestic industry anchor as urged argued that the us president own steel tariffs and subsequent trade restrictions by the e.u. india and indonesia diverted steel towards turkey bringing turkish prices down in your limits will be set at approximately half the steel imports levels of last year imports exceeding these quotas will be subject to twenty five percent additional duties starting wednesday next week. in a drive alphabet says it is shutting down the consumer version of its online social
thursday. egyptian authorities say they re investigating whether the groups are getting illegal foreign funding. u.s. state department official says egypt must stop what it calls harassment. time has run out this year for india s proposed anti-corruption law. parliament s upper house failed to vote on the plan to create a watchdog agency before the winter season expired wednesday. as samoans go to sleep over the next few hours it will still be thursday night there. when they wake up, it ll be saturday. the pacific island nation is skipping right over friday because officials have decided to change time zones. the move will put them on the same schedule asamoah s biggest trading partner s. those are the top stories. i m zain verjee. world business today starts now. good morning from cnn london. i m charles hodson. i m andrew stevens from hong kong. welcome to world business today. the top story this friday, december 30, the final wbt of the year. penultimate. any
this. good morning and happy friday. it is november 4th. this is your manhatt a.m. wake- call, i m carol costello. one of the women accusing the republican presidential candidate of sexual harassment may issue a statement later today. her lawyer says she would rebut cain s denials of any sexual advances when the woman worked for cain at the national restaurant association in the late 90s. she s one of three women who have accused cain of inappropriate behavior. cain repeatedly denied the allegations but has acknowledged at least one severance payment was made to an accuser. in a radio interview with sean hannity, mccain vowed to press ahead with his campaign. i can assure you this, sean, this will not deter me. this businessman will not be deterred in his drive to basically feel what i m supposed to be doing, which is to win this nomination and win the presidency. politico.com first broke the story on sunday and since then cain has given conflicting accounts on the al