Hillary clinton is in town meeting with executives from twitter and facebook. Making a thursday night football as popular as monday night football, that is what cbs is trying to do as he gets ready to air its first season of thursday night games. The chairman of cbssports tells us the network is devoting more resources to every thursday night game than any game, except the super bowl. , netflixead story, n says it has 50 million subscribers because of hits of house of cards and oranges the new black bringing viewers. They added more than one million internationally. Even if netflix began targeting new customers one dollar more. As for the earning numbers, sales were up 25 to 1. 3 billion. D. E income rise netflix has ambitious plans. Expanding in germany, france, and other parts of europe. It is also going to send sell gift cards for the very first time. Cory johnson is with me in the studio. In l. A. , jon erlichman. In new york, s p capital iq senior analyst. What stands out to you m
Facebook and twitter. Twitter, she will speak with employees and the event will be live streamed from her twitter profile. At facebook, she will host a live q a on the Facebook Page of her new book. Football season is coming soon and we are gearing up for the first season of monday night football. Sports on why the network is promoting devoting resources to any of the game but the super bowl. To our lead story of the day, president obama is trying to increase pressure on russia and the shooting down of flight 17. International investigators and evidence from the crash site in eastern ukraine. If russia continues to violate sovereignty and back to the separatists, then russia will only further isolate itself from the International Community and the costs of their behavior will only increase their it the british Prime Minister David Cameron after president obamas thoughts says if parliament does not act, it is time to make our influence felt. Peter cook has the latest. Time were first he
Eventuality of striking an agreement to reach this bridge agreement that will lead us to a new, shall i say, social contract with our European Partners within six months. A contract for growth, social cohesion and forgetting greece out of the crisis. He wants to ease the terms of the bailout deal. According to officials germany will not insist they greece live up to all the terms. German gdp rose 0. 7 more than twice as forecast. The French Economy slowed down. Italy stagnated after two quarters of contraction. The news about the German Economy sent the dax to a record. It broke through 11,000 for the first time before pulling back. Equities are at a record in the u. S. The nasdaq composite is close to a 15 year high. Here we go again. Rollsroyces profits fell 8 . President obama hosting that conference on Cyber Security. He wants companies to share information. For Big Companies declined the invitation. They are mia, but they are sending representatives. Peter, what is up with this va
Merchant, and her bank. We dont know your credit card number, or what you bought. Or how much you paid. And we dont want to. Three month after we launched, over 2000 banks have signed on to bring apple pay to millions of their customers. And today, we are excited to announce that beginning in september, apple pay will be available for many transactions with the federal government. Like, for example when you pay for admission to your favorite national park. We are also working to make sure credit and procurement cards issued to Government Employees for expenses can be used with apple pay. We are working on initiatives with leading banks and networks to use this technology with benefit programs like Social Security and veterans pensions that serve citizens at both the state and federal levels. We can imagine a day in the not so distant future, when your wallet becomes a remnant of the past. Your passport, your drivers license, and other Important Documents can be digitally stored in a wa
Fit bid could be the company that will smooth out of the year ahead of everyone. All of that and more over the next hour. First, headlines from our cohost carol massar. Litigation over whether Martha Stewart breached a contract by selling goods at jcpenney. Macys said that this does not affect its outstanding claim against a jcpenney. Blackberry is parting ways with alicia keys. She failed to rekindle the love affair with the smartphone. She was hired as the global creative erector will be leaving the company after their year long collaboration. Those are some of your top headlines at the hour. The storm has everyone speaking about in the east coast and the rest of the northeast and the u. S. The storm is expected to bring more than a foot of snow to new england and blizzard conditions have grounded more than 1600 flights on the first workday of the new year. Here to help us track the storm and about how it is affecting business, Bloomberg Business meteorologist Bonnie Schneider and al