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google and amazon are doing this with different approaches. you cannot ask for two better companies to be innovating in this space. emily: does amazon orgle win? is there a place for both of them? what about facebook? chris: absolutely. google has also bought a drone company to compete with connecting the developing world. there you are competing with satellites and balloons. google has mentored a balloon logic -- an internet balloon project. emily: what's a better way? balloons or drones? chris: the great thing about balloons is they stay up for weeks on end. their natural instinct is to float. a drone's instinct is to fall. the great thing about the drones is they can stay in one place whereas the balloons float around with the wind. there is a case for both of them. there is no one answer. emily: do you see these companies on a collision course? chris: no, this is complementary. it is the first minutes of the day of the drone age. there is room for everbody. emily: how omnipresent will drones be in the future? chris: i think they will be everywhere. they will be in farms, you will see drones over cities. maybe there will be police d
google and amazon are doing this with different approaches. you cannot ask for two better companies to be innovating in this space. emily: does amazon orgle win? is there a place for both of them? what about facebook? chris: absolutely. google has also bought a drone company to compete with connecting the developing world. there you are competing with satellites and balloons. google has mentored a balloon logic -- an internet balloon project. emily: what's a better way? balloons or drones?...
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as well as among shareholders, there is a desire for twitter to be put in the same profile as amazon or googler facebook. each are run by a founder or cofounder, someone who has a lot of legitimacy to make tough decisions. clearly, a lot of change needs to take place at twitter and jack dorsey has those credentials. perhaps it is wishful thinking, but i do think he is on the short list. emily: investors one jack, but management 101 says you can only have one full-time ceo job. but look -- it has been done before. steve jobs did it. he was more than human, though. what do you think about jack dorsey's decision here? guest: i think it will be tough road to be ceo of both of these companies at the same time, especially if square prepares for its ipo. i think that twitter does need to go through a lot of changes. user growth is flagging and stock price is flagging and engagement is flagging, but i think there is so much potential in this platform if they focus on their ecosystem and focus on tweaking the product to make it more user-friendly, to reveal some of the value in all that data could be a
as well as among shareholders, there is a desire for twitter to be put in the same profile as amazon or googler facebook. each are run by a founder or cofounder, someone who has a lot of legitimacy to make tough decisions. clearly, a lot of change needs to take place at twitter and jack dorsey has those credentials. perhaps it is wishful thinking, but i do think he is on the short list. emily: investors one jack, but management 101 says you can only have one full-time ceo job. but look -- it...
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hastings has said before, and that is rising tide will lift all of these boats, whether it's amazon or googler apple or anyone else. >> nbc universal as well. our parent company. let me give you an example. mr. robot is a netflix quality show. when cramer did the interview, and he said why does netflix have this advantage? why can't other people compete? the question is not why can't they compete? it's why are they being so self-defeating? you basically can't watch mr. robot right now. the experience to watch it in the usa app. there are six commercials loading 30 seconds. you can't fast forward when you watch it on sbot. as soon as each additional companies decide to get it together and do the stuff that's more functional and user-loving, i think there will be more competition from the entrenched buyers. >> the beauty of netflix and darn you, reid hastings, for so long i wasn't suicide bomb subscribing to netflix, but my wife is hooked on orange is the new black. now we're doing it. it's just really well. from the user perspective, the way episode after episode will play. my kids are already
hastings has said before, and that is rising tide will lift all of these boats, whether it's amazon or googler apple or anyone else. >> nbc universal as well. our parent company. let me give you an example. mr. robot is a netflix quality show. when cramer did the interview, and he said why does netflix have this advantage? why can't other people compete? the question is not why can't they compete? it's why are they being so self-defeating? you basically can't watch mr. robot right now....
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recently hired engineers from amazon or helping google work on the model as well as other wearable technologies. google glass was discontinued earlier because the sales were down. steve: i would have been fine with testing david amazon hoping to make big splashes holiday season. a seven-inch fire tablet for 50 bucks. the quiet quarter processor from interfacing cameras and up to 120 gigs of storage. amazon selling the tablet in six packs. pre-orders begin today for shipping this month. that's interesting. breakups can be ugly especially when it's between brothers. dari: the social media split that's being mocked by people around the world. steve: taking farm to table to chefs made a chicken sandwich entirely from scratch. huh, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. yeah, everybody knows that. well, did you know that playing cards with kenny rogers gets old pretty fast? you got to know when to hold'em. know when to fold 'em. know when to walk away. know when to run. you never count your money, when you're sitting at the ta... what? you get it? i get the gist, ye
recently hired engineers from amazon or helping google work on the model as well as other wearable technologies. google glass was discontinued earlier because the sales were down. steve: i would have been fine with testing david amazon hoping to make big splashes holiday season. a seven-inch fire tablet for 50 bucks. the quiet quarter processor from interfacing cameras and up to 120 gigs of storage. amazon selling the tablet in six packs. pre-orders begin today for shipping this month. that's...
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if any regional acreditor went to mcgraw hill or amazon or google saying the faults have to be nobelgeorgetown and asu, demonstrate that you got really high quality up front, and we'll allow you, before you graduate your first class, do regional accreditati accreditation, that's phenomenal innovation, higher quality, and lower costs. you don't have that today. >> the key, in fact, is innovation. that's kept prices rising significantly. it's something all of us worked on significantly, which is to find ways to drive innovation and move towards individualized learning, move towards helping people to move through college and be successful. you have to have environments that allow innovation and stimulate innovation. >> i've been in a number of debate saying it's not proven online education works. excuse me, when it's time for you to learn, you sit in a classroom and wait for someone to show up? no, you go online and learn. that's going on in the libraries right now. >> yeah. >> faculty increasingly asking for software. >> we're past that hurdle. we're on the innovation curve like no tom
if any regional acreditor went to mcgraw hill or amazon or google saying the faults have to be nobelgeorgetown and asu, demonstrate that you got really high quality up front, and we'll allow you, before you graduate your first class, do regional accreditati accreditation, that's phenomenal innovation, higher quality, and lower costs. you don't have that today. >> the key, in fact, is innovation. that's kept prices rising significantly. it's something all of us worked on significantly,...
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or sell to the cloud? do you plan to take on amazon and google? y: our public cloud offering is not designed to compete with azure or aws or google. what we see most enterprises wanting to do is not to put everything in a public cloud. so if you want only convenience, you might go to a public cloud, but if you want security, you want to be in a private cloud. our strategy is hybrid cloud. your cloud, the way that is right for your company and your industry. emily: a lot of deals happening -- avago, broadcom, intel, altera. do you see a segment broadly at hp that could be transformed by m&a? meg: i think you're are seeing an increase in m&a activity as our industry is changing. every 10 or 15 years in technology i see tectonic plate shifts. web 1.0 to now -- mobility and web services, we are on the cusp of another enormous change and when that happens the industry rearranges itself. we are back in the m&a game now that we have repaired our balance sheet. we will augment our core innovation internally, what we call organic innovation with m&a, but we
or sell to the cloud? do you plan to take on amazon and google? y: our public cloud offering is not designed to compete with azure or aws or google. what we see most enterprises wanting to do is not to put everything in a public cloud. so if you want only convenience, you might go to a public cloud, but if you want security, you want to be in a private cloud. our strategy is hybrid cloud. your cloud, the way that is right for your company and your industry. emily: a lot of deals happening --...
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. >> they're not going to be facebook, amazon, netflix, google or apple.hese are not recommendations but they're just objective screens that we put in. if you're looking for certain things in the market, these are the stocks that are going to provide them for you. s&p 500, 500 issues there. which ones are within 10% still of their recent 52-week high? it's about 100 of them. put that up there. it's not that bad. 99 stocks are still within that 10% range from their recent highs. 99 green balloons. >> or red ones. >> let's take those 99. 18 pe or below, meaning trades around the market multiple or less. that becomes 17. now which ones pay you more than the current 10-year treasury note in terms of yield. all of a sudden that becomes 6. 6 out of 100 meet those criteria. here are those stocks. they are names we don't often talk about but a couple of them have some interesting themes. first of all, cincinnati financial. insurance. it's an insurance company. 3% yield on that guy. it meets those criteria. darden restaurants. it's now pretty much just the olive ga
. >> they're not going to be facebook, amazon, netflix, google or apple.hese are not recommendations but they're just objective screens that we put in. if you're looking for certain things in the market, these are the stocks that are going to provide them for you. s&p 500, 500 issues there. which ones are within 10% still of their recent 52-week high? it's about 100 of them. put that up there. it's not that bad. 99 stocks are still within that 10% range from their recent highs. 99...
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if you look at every single one of these companies, whether it is google or amazon, every one of themct people. are very few of them. tom: a woman out of illinois. wisconsin. excuse me. she goes to stanford, shows up, -- achievesademics and i can. she qualified to be an executive . michael: who else can lead a company like this where the important element is the user? that is what it comes down to. she stands for the user. tom: one final question. i have to bring this up. woman expecting twins, said,with some grace look, if she did not have this issue, maybe this would be a different dialogue. you look at silicon valley them are women still penalized for their response abilities with family life? >> women need to see -- half of yahoos users are women. when he did to see women running these companies. -- we need to see women running these copies. tom: michael wolff with activate. olivia, you were traveling yesterday. this was really something. olivia: he said yahoo! should be euthanized. --t was a play on a tax tom: we will have much more on this in the coming days. we need to look at
if you look at every single one of these companies, whether it is google or amazon, every one of themct people. are very few of them. tom: a woman out of illinois. wisconsin. excuse me. she goes to stanford, shows up, -- achievesademics and i can. she qualified to be an executive . michael: who else can lead a company like this where the important element is the user? that is what it comes down to. she stands for the user. tom: one final question. i have to bring this up. woman expecting twins,...
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you have a big innovative company in a decade or two ago when he been. amazon and google were researching and developing systems to deliver and retrieve packages via drones. this is a huge massive opportunity for the united states of america. february 15th of this year the faa released a proposed rule after years of delay on the heels of a june 2014 report by the department of transportation inspector general criticized the faa for being behind its efforts to integrate into the national airspace system. the ig concluded it was unlikely faa would meet the deadline is here to integrate drones in our airspace and under current regulations as well as proposed rule is difficult for companies interested in developing transformative technology to go through testing of ideas. developers either limit testing in the united states or to test overseas in a country where the rules are more flexible. march of 2014, google's project and started testing deliveries of drugs but did so in australia. a year later, amazon began testing canada and the united kingdom after months of waiting on
you have a big innovative company in a decade or two ago when he been. amazon and google were researching and developing systems to deliver and retrieve packages via drones. this is a huge massive opportunity for the united states of america. february 15th of this year the faa released a proposed rule after years of delay on the heels of a june 2014 report by the department of transportation inspector general criticized the faa for being behind its efforts to integrate into the national...
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you have big innovative companies that just a decade or two ago weren't even around. companies like amazon and google who are researching and developing systems that would allow merchants and customers to deliver and retrieve packages via drones. this is a huge massive opportunity for the united states of america. on february 15th of this year, the faa released a proposed rule on the commercial use of drones. this came after years of delay on the heels of a june 2014 report by the department of transportation inspector general that criticized the faa for being significantly behind its efforts to integrate drones into the national air space system. the ig concluded it was unlikely that faa would meet the deadline of september of this year, 2015, to integrate drones into our air space. under current faa regulations as well as the proposed rule, it is very difficult for companies that are interested in developing transformative drone technology to even go through the testing of these ideas. developers have been forced to either limit their testing to small confines of indoor spaces in the united states
you have big innovative companies that just a decade or two ago weren't even around. companies like amazon and google who are researching and developing systems that would allow merchants and customers to deliver and retrieve packages via drones. this is a huge massive opportunity for the united states of america. on february 15th of this year, the faa released a proposed rule on the commercial use of drones. this came after years of delay on the heels of a june 2014 report by the department of...
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amazon web services or something. you actually had to go out and build your own machines. and beyond that, we were threatening, basically, both sides of the industry. both the internet industry, the googlesthe yahoo!s, and microsofts that wanted to control, continue to retain their control. but you had the traditional media world, the studios and labels and others, wanting to retain control of distribution. they were attacking us, accusing us of not doing the right things around copyrights, when, in reality, we were building more tools than any of our competitors, and more policies from day one than anyone else to deal with all these problems and actually eventually create solutions for them where they could monetize them. the music industry earns billions of dollars off of youtube on an annual basis now. but with all these people looking at us, and us just struggling to keep things up and running, we had no other choice, really, at the end of the day, to be acquired by someone. for us, we were lucky enough to be acquired by google, who, in my mind, kind of took a chance on us. and that, really, youtube would probably not be here today or what it is today without their support. so i am r
amazon web services or something. you actually had to go out and build your own machines. and beyond that, we were threatening, basically, both sides of the industry. both the internet industry, the googlesthe yahoo!s, and microsofts that wanted to control, continue to retain their control. but you had the traditional media world, the studios and labels and others, wanting to retain control of distribution. they were attacking us, accusing us of not doing the right things around copyrights,...
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amazon and microsoft video services. it cops as disney tries to steer fans towards digital purchases, because of declining dvd sales. disney also says it plans to launch an app or roku and google a week from today. >>> british star sam smith headed to the big screen, singing the theme for the latest james bond movie. he tweeted his song "writings on the wall" has been chosen for the film. he was in san francisco just last month to unveil a statue at madame tussaud's. the movie comes out in november. >>> an hour from now and the three santa clara correctional deputies accused of beating an inmate to death are set to be in court to be arraigned. rob ross is at the courthouse in san jose as the men face charges of murder, conspiracy and assault under the color of thortd. rob will have a live report coming up on the 4 with mike williams and keeba arnold. - [voiceover] billions are flocking to cities. and they all need a place to live. - the urban population is greater than the rural population. it's the first time ever. - [voiceover] futuristic apartments are being built like cars, on assembly lines. - we're talking about building a building in sections in a factory. - [voiceover]
amazon and microsoft video services. it cops as disney tries to steer fans towards digital purchases, because of declining dvd sales. disney also says it plans to launch an app or roku and google a week from today. >>> british star sam smith headed to the big screen, singing the theme for the latest james bond movie. he tweeted his song "writings on the wall" has been chosen for the film. he was in san francisco just last month to unveil a statue at madame tussaud's. the...
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or main street here who is making money today. google in an effort to step up competition with amazon, google plans to start testing delivery servicesh food and groceries in two u.s. cities later this year. general manager of google express says the trial begins in san francisco and another city yet to be named. >>> the movies were the place to be this summer compared to last summer. sales at north american cinemas were up more than 10%, nearly 4 1/2 billion dollars with movies from universal and dizzy controlling 60% of the market. >>> sam smith is making money and new music of the singer recorded a theme song for the latest james bond movie. the track is called, "writings on the wall." it will be released later this month. smith says quote, this is one of the highlights of my career. very grateful. david: good for him. congress is back in town, taking on iran nuclear agreement but is it already a done deal? >>> plus donald trump is mad as hell and not going to take it anymore. the millionaire planning a massive protest right in our nation's capitol. details coming up. do you want to know how hard it can be to breathe with copd? i
or main street here who is making money today. google in an effort to step up competition with amazon, google plans to start testing delivery servicesh food and groceries in two u.s. cities later this year. general manager of google express says the trial begins in san francisco and another city yet to be named. >>> the movies were the place to be this summer compared to last summer. sales at north american cinemas were up more than 10%, nearly 4 1/2 billion dollars with movies from...
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device which connects your smartphone or computer to your tv and meant to compete with similar devices from amazon and apple. the device streams netflix and youtube and google says the updated version is also designed and set to capture the best wi-fi signal in your home and today they also introduced an audio version of chrome cast so you can stream music and podcasts. >> richest people in america, a new list out. the number one spot won't surprise you, of course, bill gates with $76 billion. the youngest person on the list, snapchat's founder evan spiegel. 25 years old and worth 2 billion. mark zuckerberg cracked the top ten for the first time and warren buffet in the two spot and rounding out top three, larry ellison. >> a shake-up in the fashion world, ralph lauren is stepping down and will continue as chief creative officer. the 75-year-old created the company pack in 1967. stefan larson will take over for ralph lauren. he's current president of old navy and he starts in november. >> certainly a fashion legend for sure. >> yes, i hope it stays on track with just how it is now. >> absolutely. >> beautiful weather, might be able to fet away with a little
device which connects your smartphone or computer to your tv and meant to compete with similar devices from amazon and apple. the device streams netflix and youtube and google says the updated version is also designed and set to capture the best wi-fi signal in your home and today they also introduced an audio version of chrome cast so you can stream music and podcasts. >> richest people in america, a new list out. the number one spot won't surprise you, of course, bill gates with $76...
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amazon fire tv stick and the ruku and google chrome cast. going is the least expensive but to operate it you need a smart phone or tablet loaded with the chromeu use your tablet or own device or laptop computer to access hbo and cast it to your tv. >> for $50 the roku streaming stick lets you use an app, but comes with a handy wifi remote as well. it has the most channels and lets you know when the newer movies are available to stream. >> you still have to pay for content that is not free. >> that is one advantages to the amazon prime stick, you get the movies and content if you an amazon prime subscriber. >> transformers. >> if you are in the market for a new media streaming player and prefer a box style player, you may want to consider of the three roku boxes. i'm nydia han, channel 6 "action news." >> now for sara bloomquist, alicia vitarelli andam joseph i'm brian taff. >> "action news" at 5:00 is next. see you later. >>> "action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with jaime apody, meteorologist, cecily tynan, rick williams and monica malpass. >>> september starting off with a heat wave, the fifth one this summer and the temper
amazon fire tv stick and the ruku and google chrome cast. going is the least expensive but to operate it you need a smart phone or tablet loaded with the chromeu use your tablet or own device or laptop computer to access hbo and cast it to your tv. >> for $50 the roku streaming stick lets you use an app, but comes with a handy wifi remote as well. it has the most channels and lets you know when the newer movies are available to stream. >> you still have to pay for content that is...
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google or android but more profit in apple phones than there are in android. pimm: that is kind of important. they will make more money. cory: not these days. have you heard of amazonlet: need to make money to accomplish what it wants to do, which is people into the ecosystem? cory: the world is changing. the headline is that pc world is dead. as more and more computing has happened, google cleverly saw this coming from a long ways off and realizes -- relies they wanted a dominant company to compute to the new environment, they had to be central to the operating systems of the new environment. when you do a search on opentable, probably your favorite app. you probably -- you are big not got person, you do to google to search for staff chat. you go right to the act. that is a problem for google because people did not begin their searches at google.com. cory johnson, thank you so much. pimm: still ahead, a shakeup in their to be outgoing speaker of the house. more details coming up. ♪ pimm: now we turn to politics. kevin mccartney made it official yesterday he want the outgoing house speaker's job. joining us this john holloman. i believe there are four candidates lo
google or android but more profit in apple phones than there are in android. pimm: that is kind of important. they will make more money. cory: not these days. have you heard of amazonlet: need to make money to accomplish what it wants to do, which is people into the ecosystem? cory: the world is changing. the headline is that pc world is dead. as more and more computing has happened, google cleverly saw this coming from a long ways off and realizes -- relies they wanted a dominant company to...
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today, a university student, entrepreneur or any place on the planet has access to the world's information on google. a thousand web servers on amazonivize not just a few programs but hundreds, maybe thousands of teams to try this out. besides the cash, what it offers here is a platform. we'll be actually providing a coal plant and a natural gas plant where they can try their technology, try to do that right now as an entrepreneur. it would be pretty darn hard. so we provide this playing field. what we're doing now is we're asking materials scientists, students, professors, entrepreneurs around the world, to go to x-prize.org and register for the competition. we had 600 teams in the last competition. we hope for a similar number here. we're going to have experimentation around the world to find a solution. we're crowd-sourcing it offering a lot of cash to the team that does it. >> how many people have come forward so far, teams? >> we just announced it last night. we have had dozens so far. traditionally -- we launched our global learning x-prize. i enjoyed watching the reveal of tesla. elon won our last x-prize. $15 million global
today, a university student, entrepreneur or any place on the planet has access to the world's information on google. a thousand web servers on amazonivize not just a few programs but hundreds, maybe thousands of teams to try this out. besides the cash, what it offers here is a platform. we'll be actually providing a coal plant and a natural gas plant where they can try their technology, try to do that right now as an entrepreneur. it would be pretty darn hard. so we provide this playing field....
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or test overseas in a country where the rules are more flexible. in march of 2014, google's project wing started testing delivery of drones but did so in australia. a year later, amazon began testing drones in canada and united kingdom. so they could test real world environments in the united states. according to the u.a.v. trade association and yes there is one, every year integration is delayed the united states loses money in potential impact. i recognize the privacy and safety concerns exist and i personally share many of those. i don't want my neighbor flying a drone over my back yard and i don't want law enforcement using drones for spying on private property. dealing with large crowds and large events, say a super bowl or major league baseball game, yes, there are appropriate uses. can they be overused? and we need to talk about the parameters of that. there are states' rights and states have a say in this. at what point does the airspace become a federal issue. and at what point is it a federal issue snl maybe these drones are going to land. i think the state and municipalities want a say in that as well. i would like to think we can get it right and must get
or test overseas in a country where the rules are more flexible. in march of 2014, google's project wing started testing delivery of drones but did so in australia. a year later, amazon began testing drones in canada and united kingdom. so they could test real world environments in the united states. according to the u.a.v. trade association and yes there is one, every year integration is delayed the united states loses money in potential impact. i recognize the privacy and safety concerns...
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or bloomberg. brian: google will be playing in tv. tom: you have not mentioned apple? brian: they do not care about advertising. you want to think about amazon sleeping giant. they have $1 billion of revenue and can be as big as they want to be. tom: mr. bezos taking a minority interest. >> he was an early investor and business insider. humongousowe is so that he will not talk to me. >> he was probably on the phone with his real estate agent. brian, this new world is going to be one where there are more equals then there are -- then there are huge internet companies. it is not just google and facebook but that is what the narrative has been. brian: the narrative is that tv is dying. tom: and you do not agree. -- in my narrative is other words, every country, axel springer, legacy in the united states and different countries, they are dominant publishers imprint, and the dominant players in the future are digital players. tom: full this back to amazon, mr. zuckerberg, i have seen the internationalization of it, can amazon be a player with google and facebook? brian: if they want to be an amazon is incredibly focused on the consumers and they
or bloomberg. brian: google will be playing in tv. tom: you have not mentioned apple? brian: they do not care about advertising. you want to think about amazon sleeping giant. they have $1 billion of revenue and can be as big as they want to be. tom: mr. bezos taking a minority interest. >> he was an early investor and business insider. humongousowe is so that he will not talk to me. >> he was probably on the phone with his real estate agent. brian, this new world is going to be one...
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you have big innovative companies that just a decade or two weren't even in business, weren't even around, companies like amazon and google were researching and developing systems that would allow merchants and customers to deliver and retrieve packages via drones. this is a huge massive opportunity for the united states of america. on february 15 of this year, the f.a.a. released a proposed rule on the commercial use of drones. this came after years of delay on the heels of a june 2014 report by the department of transportation inspector general that criticized the department for being behind in its efforts to develop drones. developers have been forced to either limit their testing to small confines of indoor spaces in the united states or to test overseas in a country where the rules are more flexibility. in march of 2014, google's so-called project wing starred testing deliveries of drones but did so in australia. a year later amazon began tresing drone deliveries in canada after months of waiting for approval here in the united states states of america so they could test real world environments in the united states.
you have big innovative companies that just a decade or two weren't even in business, weren't even around, companies like amazon and google were researching and developing systems that would allow merchants and customers to deliver and retrieve packages via drones. this is a huge massive opportunity for the united states of america. on february 15 of this year, the f.a.a. released a proposed rule on the commercial use of drones. this came after years of delay on the heels of a june 2014 report...