Programs from our archives that focus on technology. Watch them in their entirety by visiting our website, book tv. Org and use the search function at the top of the major. First from march 2019, nyu Stearns School of business professor argues that Artificial Intelligence is giving too much power to big corporations. My job is to model risk for a living and i primarily focus on technology and i over and over come back to the same companies that control the lions share of patents, that have an extraordinary amount of money, that are able to attract the best talent because they have the best food. That much have the relationships with universities, and it doesnt mean that there arent other Companies Like salesforce or nvidia or uber that arent doing amazing things, but its three the Nine Companies that this throws. And it touches all of these nine. In addition theyre building the frameworks and custom silicon chips and the code basis, all roads lead to these Nine Companies and the challe
And many publications. And mikes coverage won an award for distinguished business reporting. He writes frequently about uber, facebook and other socalled giants for the times and appears often on cnbc bchl krch , and msnbc. The book signing will be in the back and appreciate if you keep the line along the wall to your far right. Enjoy reading, everybody. [applause] i thought there would be 20 people here. Yeah, its all friends, friends and and a fireside chat. A congressional hearing, be on your cspan behavior, all of us, especially mike. Yeah, im not going to curse tonight, i think. Im going to try not to. I was thinking and i think you were thinking you should probably start off with reading something. I dont know how many people here have actually read any part of the book, but i think it would be nice to, you know, have you read a part. Thank you, yeah. Thank you guys for coming, also, and especially those of you who are standing. Ive stood at many an event at this bookstore. By fr
It was being called the christmas protest. Three big hours for you. Buckle in. Merry christmas. Varney company about to start right now. Charles huge gains for the markets this year. The calendar year, in fact, has wall street looking extraordinarily well. Want to bring in market watcher Rebecca Walser on these gains and of course, at this point in time, we always look ahead. What do you make overall of this market, considering all the negative headlines, all the negative speculation . First to have this kind of market is really remarkable. Charles, it is. Merry christmas. Im having such a great retail season high. I dont care what the retail experts, you know, were expecting. We got 3. 4 growth and Super Saturday, charles, the biggest shopping day ever. 3. 4 billion on Super Saturday. Thats what happens when you have a short Christmas Shopping season, right, from thanksgiving to christmas. Charles yeah, no doubt about it. And i got to tell you, its anecdotal but as i looked around at
Video of a tesla that smashed into a store in danville. It was all the way inside the building. It left the door dangling. It happened about 1 00 at the blackhawk Shopping Plaza with lots of shoppers in the area. I heard a loud bang and screech and the door fall and the pots fall. Then i came running over to see if anybody was okay. He was okay. No one was inside. The lady said they came pretty close. So for it is not clear what caused it to go out of control. This evening the end of a chapter at uber. Travis kalanick is resigning from the board next week. He is severing ties with the company he founded a decade ago. He will be immensely rich. He recently sold 90 of the shares and that made him worth 2. 5 billion dollars. Uber grew but he was ousted in the summer of 2017 after a series of management scandals. Employees speaking out about rampant Sexual Harassment and a sexist corporate culture. He did stay on as a member of the board but is expected to resign next week. New development
Has been the trend we have been watching for quite some time future indicated 44 points by the dow. S p futures by 3. 5 this comes after we saw all three of the major averages sitting at new highs again on friday thats happened a lot recently the dow and the s p 500 up for the last seven of the last eight sessions nasdaq on an eightday winning streak and thats something that youre watching as we kind of rush into the Holiday Season here also look at whats happening in the treasury market. Youll see that right now the ten year looks like it is yielding 1. 91 just below 2 for the ten year we have some news breaking just literally in the past hour now. Report saudi arabia sentencing five people to death for the killing of Washington Post columnist jamal khashoggi, he was murdered of course in that saudi consulate in istanbul just last year by a team of saudi agents saudistate run tv saying three other people were sentenced to prison over the killings and reports say that the investigation