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Apr 2019
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Twitter Beats and Grows, Google’s ‘Wing’...

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Jitendra Waral, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Internet & Consumer Products Analyst and Selina Wang, Bloomberg News Global Technology Reporter, discuss Twitter topping first-quarter sales projections and reporting strong user growth, bolstered by changes to its social-media service that are drawing a wider audience of consumers and advertisers. George Ferguson, Bloomberg Intelligence Senior Airlines Analyst, explains how an offshoot of Alphabet’s Google has become the first drone operator to receive government approval as an airline, an important step that gives it the legal authority to begin dropping products to actual customers.Lincoln Ellis, Senior Investment Strategist at Northern Trust, talks about the “eccentric” investment risks taken by family offices. Bloomberg Businessweek Editor Joel Weber and Bloomberg News Labor Reporter Josh Eidelson discuss news that the Supreme Court will decide if a civil rights law applies to gay and transgender workers. And we Drive to the Close with Shawn Cruz, Manager of Trader Strategy at TD Ameritrade. 

Hosts: Carol Massar and Vincent Cignarella.  Producer: Paul Brennan 

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