let's get to washington, with the author of this piece laura davison. she is standing by. ow apple compared to the rest. laura: apple compared to every other coming, the numbers are of greater scale, but in terms of trendlines how they spent their money, it is in line with what we saw with a lot of companies. disney, starbucks, visa. they put a lot of money into buybacks. they had a lot of extra cash on hand and saw the tax rate go down to 21%. what they heard from investors and when they were looking around, they had a long period of growth and investing in new things. they said, we are going to give this back to investors. we saw that somewhat with dividends but it was really buybacks that was the strategy of choice. emily: how does it compare to what they promised to do with this money? laura: really in line. coupleromised to spend a billion dollars in buybacks, which that number $72 billion represents the first three quarters of last year. assuming what they did in the last quarter aligned, they would have hit that mark. they pledged to add 20,000 workers. they added 90

emily: laura davison, thank you so much for your reporting. still ahead, can a.i. real estate industry? betting big on startups that seem to think so. we will speak to the ceo next. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: starbucks is expanding its delivery service with ubereats. it will offer delivery in san francisco tuesday, expanding to boston, chicago and other cities in coming weeks. the company says it plans to bring delivery to nearly a quarter of its u.s. coffee shops in seven cities this spring and will test in other countries this year. 95% of its menu will be available through ubereats. it adds another high profile brand to deliver delivery following his deal with mcdonald's in may. more and more homebuyers are taking their search online using sites like zillow, redfin. while searching has evolved, traditional brokerages have been notoriously slow to catch up with technology with high cost business models and a 6% seat. a real estate startup was to close the gap. it is the first licensed residential real estate broker to circumvent the traditional a flatto offer bu

techno on phil toys joined by marie to davison and doctors should do some laura because they were outlawsout there who are working in the shadows committing horrible acts against the pencil is yet majestic animals we're talking about the ivory poachers who have decimated the populations of elephants in africa and it's really the case ivory guys for about a thousand dollars a pound move than an illegal drugs and you know what that means is that the damage has been devastate. adding over one hundred thousand elephants have been killed in just the last three years and the question is what can we do about it we found a team of scientists that are using some unexpected weapons d.n.a. and radiocarbon dating check it out. april eighteenth two thousand and fifteen. intercepts four tonnes of ivory smuggled in being sacks from the democratic republic of congo. it is the largest seizure in this country's history the ivory on the way to laos seized in bangkok after a tip the seizure makes headlines customs displayed over three tons of confiscated african ivory worth six million dollars a historic bri