Squawk alley. Im Carl Quintanilla with john fortt. Retails are stories once again, with Online Shopping soaring to a record 5. 3 billion on black friday alone cyber monday is set to possibly become the biggest internet shopping day in history. For more on that we send it out to our Courtney Reagan whos at Amazon Warehouse in robbinsville, new jersey hi again, court. Good morning to you, carl cyber monday has always been a really big day for amazon, but now that they have the prime day, they are going to have to beat their own record in order for it to be the biggest day of the year for amazon. You can see were in this Fulfillment Center in new jersey and its just one of 75 of amazons Fulfillment Centers like this in the country here it covers a million square feet there are 14 miles of conveyer belts running 24 7 thousands of both human employees, as well as robots fulfilling those cyber monday orders last year amazon said 64 million items were ordered on its website. They are not givi
Senator harry reid is recovering from a fall yesterday in which he broke several ribs and facial bones. The accident occurred when he was exercising with a fitness band which snapped causing him to fall. The nevada senator who is a former amateur boxer was released from a hospital and will travel back to washington for the weekend. Former nsa director Keith Alexander is speaking out against companies considering retaliating against hackers. Some companies are turning to the offensive tools in their battle against cybercrime. The former nsa director said companies should not be wading into this fight. I think its a national responsibility, a government responsibility, to respond to these. Whether it is criminal, fbi or its a nationstate. You cannot have companies escalate us into a crisis. So i think what the administration and what the government has put out today is in fact the correct approach. Companies can do more to protect their networks and thats perhaps something we should disc
Senator harry reid is recovering from a fall yesterday in which he broke several ribs and facial bones. The accident occurred when he was exercising with a fitness band which snapped causing him to fall. The nevada senator who is a former amateur boxer was released from a hospital and will travel back to washington for the weekend. Former nsa director cued alexander is speaking out against companies considering retaliating against hackers. Some companies are turning to the offense of tools in their battle against cybercrime. The former nsa director said companies should not be wading into this fight. I think its a national responsibility, a government responsibility, to respond to these weather is criminal, fbi or its a nationstate. You cannot have companies escalate us into a crisis. What the administration and what the government has put out today is in fact the correct approach. Companies can do more to protect their networks and thats perhaps something we should discuss. He made th
Gets 8. 3 billion buyout. Roach and intermun on the buyout . New alltime highs driven by the possibility of more stimulus in europe. Just a few points shy of s p 2000. First up, tax inversions in the spotlight, not talking about europe. Burger king in talks to buy canadian coffee and doughnut chain timms. Both Companies Say a combination would create the Third Largest Quick Service chain, a deal structured to shift burger kings base to canada, which has lower overall Corporate Tax than the United States but some thinking this morning is that taxes may not be the driving force on this one. Look, i think that theres always going to be anytime, its a hot button, especially walgreens not doing the alliance and president and treasure secretary saying weve got to stop these. This United States a deal that makes a lot of sense. Burger king challenged at breakfast, tim horton doing fath f fantastic. Burger kings last few numbers, doing okay, theyre not as bad as they used to but flattish comps
From a fall yesterday in which he broke several ribs and facial bones. The accident occurred when he was exercising with a fitness band which snapped causing him to fall. The nevada senator who is a former amateur boxer was released from a hospital and will travel back to washington for the weekend. Former nsa director Keith Alexander is speaking out against companies considering retaliating against hackers. Some companies are turning to the offensive tools in their battle against cybercrime. The former nsa director said companies should not be wading into this fight. I think its a national responsibility, a government responsibility, to respond to these. Whether it is criminal, fbi, or its a nationstate. You cannot have companies escalate us into a crisis. So i think what the administration and what the government has put out today is in fact the correct approach. Companies can do more to protect their networks and thats perhaps something we should discuss. He made those comments in a