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make a different future start different at godaddy.com >>> welcome back to "squawk box.at drivers are sometimes forced to y ed to urinate in bo. adding we know that drivers can and do have trouble finding restrooms, this is especially since many public restrooms have been closed. joining us, cnbc contributor, emily glazer is here"the wall ." great to see you both here to see this unfolding on amazon news on twitter which has come out swinging oftentimes over the past two weeks and government leaders and others what do you think is really going on here? is this a bit of a -- this a head fake? or this other labor battle going on down in joanne >> yeah, thanks, andrew, this could be backlash against jeff bezos himself saying he's because been aggressive with the twitter feeds, saying that the company needs to be more aggressive but i also think, you know, it's such an issue because the union -- i mean, the workers are really looking for better working conditions and the fact that amazon would get out there and actually put the focus and make a sort of snarky twitter feeds a

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make a different future start different at godaddy.com >>> welcome back to "squawk box.nced a surprise host for may 8th. their may 8th episode and it's somebody that is very familiar to our network, elon musk is going to be the host along with musical guest miley cyrus musk tweeted out the announcement saying, let's find out how live "saturday night live" really is. other nonactors hosts have drawn on the show's best ratings, including donald trump in 2019 and nancy kerrigan in 1994, after the tonya harding incident if you don't stay up normally on saturday nights, mark your calendar for may 8th and maybe get your twitter on. because there's going to be a lot of conversation possibly about crypto we'll see how many jokes are made about bitcoin and dogecoin, with our next segment, bitcoin hitting a low of $47,000 over the weekend. still welcomes the all-time high that just hit before the debut of coinbase two weeks ago. joining us to discuss all of this is meltem demirors, chief strategy officer you can explain, is there an exch explanation for what is happening over the

make a different future start different at godaddy.com >>> welcome back to "squawk" this morning 7 million ren be know vated offices in mid town the city is continuing to deal with questions when or if businesses will make a return to offices. joining us is mark oliver, he's the chairman of sl green realty. we're all trying to get new york to come back it feels like it's coming back, mark i think there's some real questions about what the workplace looks like and frankly, therefore, how much space they're going to need. it cuts both ways. people may need more space personally but then the question is are they actually coming to the office >> you know, that's right, andrew first of all, thanks for having me on the show this morning. sending your crew down here to 1 vanderbilt, i think it sets the right tone for everybody to be right here in the building right now and, you know, the big question in everybody's mind is when are people coming back to the office i can tell you, it's happening people are back in the office. sl green has been in the office since -- 100% since june of last year an

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make a different future start different at godaddy.com >>> amazon is giving a raise to hourly employeesf a million workers would see pay increases of 50 cents to $3 an hour. amazon starts wages at $15 an hour it has been hiring at a rapid clip every quarter there is a huge increase of employees. that company is due to report quarterly results today at closing bell walmart is the biggest private employer outside the federal government they have 1.2 million employees. that number could have climbed up over time it is amazing with amazon and how quickly they are adding employees, too >> it is a record pace >>> we have another story. i don't know i've been fascinating by it. i was on the phone talking about it yesterday verizon with a sale of assets. including yahoo! and aol they are looking to exit what has been an unsuccessful bet on digital media. the assets could be worth $4 billion. it acquired yahoo! in 2017 paying $9 billion for the pair of them. run by tim armstrong at the time it sold tumblr and huff news division a couple of suitors are looking into that. curious to see if any str

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