julia boorstin breaks down the changing landscape. >> reporter: even advertising giant google is working on an ad-free subscription model for youtube reaching out to youtube stars to say it's having an ad-free option enable to access even offline. rich greenfield said the latest youtube move makes sense. quote, consumers around the globe learn to live an ad-free life thanks to dvrs, netflix, et cetera. it's to launch an ad-free option especially bundled with offline access. youtube's moving forward with the subscription option. no word on pricing yet as hbo offers its first subscription outside the tv bundle taking hgobo now straight to consumers. new season of game of thrones debuting sunday and target millennials left likely to pay for cable. hbo is giving away episode of silicon valley on twitch, amazon's live streaming video game platform ahead to premiere sunday. whether hit shows like "game of thrones," sampling of younger where you knows like silicon valley for the service. netflix cost $9 a month. >> i think hbo now's strategy is different because hbo still has, they're still tet

back over to you. >> julia boorstin reporting. sticking with earnings not as much drama with ups. just a solid beat. a key indicator of u.s. economic health saying everything improved across the first quarter and that send shares higher by nearly 1.5%. morgan brennan delivers a ups package. >> driven largely by higher prices and the first quarter of rate initiatives, including charging b size for all ground packages a strategy ups and fedex has deployed. >> it did drive up revenue but ultimately the goal is to help our customers shrink the package sizes down and to help us operate better and more efficiently. ups has enjoyed strong growth abroad with export activity jumped 9% in europe where they have a big presence but currency fluctuations and the euro against the dollar did weigh on revenue which missed analyst expectations. and cheaper oil prices add the pressure to the top line results as customer fur charges were adjusted lower. analysts say the biggest takeaway is the economy is doing okay here and in europe. >> ups is certainly comfortable with the economy and the volumes

for "nightly business report," i'm julia boorstin in los angeles. >>> informatica in the biggest buyout of the year. we begin market focus. company bought by european private equity firm called promira and canada pension plan investment board. price tag more than $5 billion under the terms of the deal informatica get 49 each in cash for each share of common stock they own. the stock popped 4% to $47.79. starbucks faces questions over its tax practices in europe. this according to a report today in the "wall street journal." the coffee chain reported losses in biggest european operations even as it notched hundreds of millions of dollars in annual sales over there. the deal the company made in the netherlands to lessen tax burden is also reportedly being called into question. starbucks european headquarters is in the netherlands. shares off slightly to $94.07. the canadian government has unloaded its multibillion dollar stake in general motors which weighed on shares of the auto maker today. the stake estimated to be worth more than $2.5 billion sold to goldman sachs for an undisclosed a

for "nightly business report," i'm julia boorstin in hollywood. >>> coming up what the business world is doing to help the millions of people around the globe with autism. on this autism awareness day. >>> here's what to watch tomorrow. stocks closed for good. you can't watch them. but the labor department will reach the march employment report. you can watch that in the morning and we will have numbers tomorrow evening. that is what to watch and not watch tomorrow. >>> microsoft turns 40 and it's been very good to investors who purchased shares early. microsoft went public in 1986. since then, it's had nine stock splits and has issued many dividends microsoft, if you purchased 100 shares at the close of its first day of trading, not the ipo price but the closing price of $28 a share, and you factor in all those dividend payments and split adjustments, that investment today would be worth $1.7 million. >>> b&b expanding into all places cuba. home rental service began offering accommodations to licensed travelsersers countries. air b&b could be the biggest in latin america. the decisio

let's goat to julia boorstin for the top three things they will be watching for. >> one big questionabout what is driving this stock so much higher after hours. it's that subscriber growth. can it continue this faster than expected pace of new subscriber additions and we'll be listening to see whether hastings will reveal any details about global expansion to asia in particular. second, with netflix just announcing a massive nature documentary series, what are the ower content category that is the company will enter next? and what are hastings' aspirations for the scope of different types of tv channels his content could compete with. and, third, hastings has been a very vocal opponent of comcast's acquisition of time warner cable. we can expect questions about what the risks are to netflix if the merger goes through. hastings already said in his letter to shareholders that they're moving towards approval -- shareholder approval of a stock split, and he said he's not concerned about competition from hbo now, but i wouldn't be surprised if those topics, the stock split and competition

that's where we find princess julia boorstin with a look at how big the franchise is for disney. >> hey, karl, i haven't put on my princess leia costume just yet. they're getting ready to open their doors to the thousands of fans who have been waiting outside. many of them waiting overnight to get in and get first in line to see jj abrams, who directed the movie that's coming up in december as well. as kathleen kennedy, the head of lucas film. we expect them to unveil a new clip of ""star wars": the force awakens." as many as 40,000 fans are expected here for panels, autographs and even a jedi training session and they want the sneak peek at the future of the franchise, which disney has been working on since acquiring lucas film for $4 billion in 2012. >> i've been here for eight hours i'm here for a celebration. >> i'm just up as a custom mercenary. the outfits are awesome and the ideas are awesome. >> "star wars" celebration for the largest gala ever made. >> starting with its november release of a 90-second teaser. disney has been working to reassure diehard fans that the near

melissa, back with more as soon as the call starts. >> thanks so much julia boorstin. according to one research firm, the infrastructure services market cloud market was a $9 billion market last year. right now jeff bezos says it's $5 billion. that's amazing. >> when you look at these guys coming into these numbers, i don't think the bar was as low, for example, as on microsoft, but you have a case where the company last quarter showed some margin improvement and showed that they could start to focus on the core business and followed through on that and i think that's a very important thing. look at the stock on chart, consolidating around 380 for the last really since that announcement and looked like it was poised to break out and the numbers that everybody wanted to see, top line growth better margins. >> the amazon web services is stung the growth there. 49% growth. half the market and the only thing that worries me is they have a lot of competition and now that this is broken out and the fact that it's growing so fast that will come into play here, and i say that

julia boorstin with this quick "market flash." julia. >> that's right.cast shares moving higher. they're now trading up about 3%. the stock hitting highs of the day. the all-time high was set at around where the stock is right to you. now the shares are moving higher on a report that comcast is going to be dropping its bid for time warner cable. this comes on the heels of news of the fcc putting a potential road block for that acquisition. >> thank you. we've had officially no comment from our parent company but it is clear, kelly, that the regulatory environment, regulators were really going to be asking for major concessions when they met with both sides earlier this week. >> we've been hearing reports for days now that the tide was perhaps turning against this deal. other deals obviously affected by this include charter, brighthouse, look for liberty, look for john malone again on reaction to all of this. that's why some of these names are moving in a big way today. the debt has also been moving. now that the fcc's asked for this review panel in the l

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julia boorstin is with the ceo in hollywood. julia. >> reporter: good morning to you, carl. that's right, we're here at the tcl kmin knees theater, originally the grauman's chinese theater with the ceo. thanks for joining me today. >> thanks for having me. >> you were here last night premiering the new laser projection technology at the premiere of "fast & furious 7." you spent three years developing it. what will we notice different on the screen? >> the first thing you'll notice different is that it fills the full screen. so this screen is 91 feet wide. and under traditional digital projector, you couldn't fill it. you could only fill about 75 feet of the screen. so in order to have premieres in imax in the world in a theater like this which has 1,000 seats, you really need to fill the whole image. in addition to being bigger, it's brighter. the darks are darker. the contrast is better. in regular -- even in film, when a bride and groom stand together, the white and the black bleed together. in the new imax projection technolo

still ther here than means the eye and julia boorstin has one takeaway from the company's quarterlies. >> driving quarterly results, the social networking giant continues to grow both users and engagement. especial on mobile devices. the company reported 1.44 billion monthly active users, and 65% of facebook's monthly active users visit the service every single day. the cfo david wiener said is a record level of engagement with growth of engagement across all geographies. and noted increasing engagement on mobile devices. nearly 800 million people use mo devices daily when he called the largest mobile audience in the world. he said the key thing driving key performance for facebook. back over to you. >>> the tech earnings parade continues. we have miefld google and amazon releasing quarterly results tomorrow. apple and twitter report next week. max wolf join us to talk about which tech giants you should look for. he's from manhattan venture partners based in new york city. max, good evening. >> always a pleasure. thank you for having me. >> so you are watching twitter, google and amaz

let's begin with julia boorstin and these closely watched numbers. >> that's right, kelly.-- i'm sorry, 2 cents more than wall street analysts had been expecting. from 34 cents in the year-ago quarter. q1 revenue coming in at 3.54 billion, a hair light from the 3.56 billion that wall street analysts had been expecting. facebook does point out some currency swings saying on a constant currency basis, revenue would have been $188 million lighter. they're not the first company this quarter to point out that influence. a couple more key numbers, monthly active users, 1.44 billion. that's up 13% over daily active users, 936 million daily active users, up from 890 million in q4 and up 17% year-over-year. that's the most users added consecutively quarter to quarter since facebook went public. mobile monthly active users, 1.25 billion. that's a 24% increase. mobile daily active users, 798 million. i'll continue to dig through this release. we'll be back to you with more kelly. >> julia, thank you so much. facebook shares dipping about 1% on those numbers. let's get more reaction fr

. >> that was julia boorstin reporting. these initiatives have one thing in common the belief that increasing gender diversity isn't just good for women, it is good for the company's bottom line. >>> it is a story that raises the question, what would you do? imagine you're just driving down the road minding your own business when a huge bag of money lands in your path. well, this happened to one man and we'll show you what he did up next. >>> temperatures are going to be in the 60s today. and up to 70 tomorrow. but rain is on the way. and we'll be in for a windy weekend. we'll show you what to expect and when in my seven-day forecast. >>> this is nbc 10 news. >> well, the crack of the bat will soon be heard again in south philadelphia. here is citizens bank park. opening day is monday. before that the phillies play some exhibition games in front of the hometown fans. we're counting down to the first pitch between the phils and the red sox in four days. before that could happen the grounds crew needs to get the field in play

julia boorstin has that story. julia, there was so much fanfare when mr. trick came in because of where he came from and what people thought he was going to do? >> there was. there was a lot of fanfare when he came in and the stock is plummeting as he's leaving. really just the latest step for struggling game maker zynga to figure out what's next. zynga shares down 15% today on the news that ceo don mattrick resigning. less than two years since he took on that ceo role. founder mark pincuss is returning to the role of ceo. now under mattrick, a veteran of microsoft's xbox empire the maker of hit farmville managed to shift from social to mobile games which represent 60% of its bookings, more than doubling since mattrick joined. the company has failed to create a successful mobile game franchise on the level of farmville. mattrick drew criticism for hurting zynga's poker franchise by prioritizing graphics over speed and simplicity and a number of analysts have raised concerns about the company's bloated cost structure including mattrick's paycheck. take a lo

joule julia boorstin is one of them. hi julia. >> hi kelly. that's right.ere will help disney's $4 billion acquisition of lucas film pay off. about 40,000 "star wars" fans are expected to come here to this convention center for "star wars" celebration over the next four days. many waiting overnight last night to be first in line for a panel with director j.j. abrams and lucas film president kathleen kennedy unveiling the main attraction. a look at the future of the franchise. j.j. abrams showing a new teaser for the force awakens, which hits theaters december 18th. >> the force is strong in my family. my father has it. i have it. my sister has it. you have that power, too. chewie, we're home. >> disney's ceo bob iger telling us base on the reaction here he expects the new "star wars" kicking off a series of six films in the works to be huge. >> no predictions on how big this will be. you know we know that "star wars" films did incredibly well but there hasn't been a film out since 2005 actually. >> bob iger also telling us that they're working to build a "s

julia boorstin is there.ell, may the force be with you, brian. the folks here are very excited about the new teaser trailer that j.j. abrams just unveiled. thousands of people just streamed in the anaheim convention center to get their hands on new merchandise, get autographs signed and photographs taken with some of life-size replicas of stuff from the films. the reaction was huge to the trailer that was just aired moments ago. building excite for the movie that is scheduled to debut december 18th. and disney's ceo bob iger says that based on the reaction of folks here the $4 billion purchase of lucas film was a good investment. >> i can't tell you exact will i when but we already are fairly confident that it was a good deal for us and it's been a good deal for george lucas as well. because he took cash in disney stock and the disney stock has appreciated significantly since less than three years ago when the acquisition was made. i think in the end the shareholders of walt disney company, including george l

julia boorstin will have the latest. and also the man who downgraded twitter yesterday, what a down call. and it's not just twitter and gopro moving. wynn out with a big miss, u.s. steal falling, buffalo wild wings tumbling hard. but we kick it off with twitter. take a look. the social giant missed results sending shares immediately lower. shares were halted when they resumed selling picked up. just brutal price action here. what do you make of that? >> first of all, price action to me is just unbelievable. we had wynn town 10%, twitter 20%, which company do you think has a better opportunity going forward. i would say twitter every day and twice on sunday. so down 18% to 19% to me it's interesting for a trade. however, they have an execution problem. so it's probably going to be a quarter or two before this is an investment once again. >> first quarter revenue, maybe they ze resreset the bar enough. >> i think you have to figure out what you're looking to invest in. is it a news thing, an ad thing, social media, all thr

julia boorstin from our sister network cnbc. >> facebook earnings beat wall street expectations but the company didn't bring in quite as much revenue as projected thanks to a strong dollar which means it didn't make quite as much money overseas. but the big news is that facebook keeps adding users and keeps increase the amount of time they spend on the service. more than 1.4 billion people use facebook every month. and 65% of them use it daily. that winning streak extends beyond facebook to instagram, which the company also owns. more than 200 million people use that app every day, and they spend an average of 21 minutes looking at and posting photos. you know those videos you see all over facebook's news feed? ceo mark zuckerberg says they've been a big success. the company hitting the milestone of 4 billion videos seen every day. people aren't also using facebook increasingly for search, especially on their phones and tablets. the service now sees more than a billion searches per day. back over to you. >> okay. thank you very much. google's stock rose a bit on the same day the company

bob iger talked to our own julia boorstin about how big the movie will be. >> no predictions on how billn't been a film out since 2005, actually. the movie-going audience in the world is much larger than it ever was. there are markets today that were nonexistent before in terms of movie going. china being a great example of that. we're fairly confident that the foom film is going to do quite well. >> you got to love the smile on his face as he says, we're fairly confident this will be. faber made the point earlier this morning, disney broadly laughed at when they paid all that moveny for lucas film and you have to imagine they're going to, it's going to pay for itself soon. >> the franchise is just massive. and i think it's what's fascinating is you know, i grew up on "star wars" and kids today are still fascinate big it. it is evergreen and i think once the movie comes out, it generate more revenue for disney for products and toys. an endless stream of things. you can see the smile on iger's face, he's calculating in the back his head. i think it's going to be huge. >> biggest movie of

julia boorstin joins us with more. >> etsy is a marketplace for hand-made and vintage products, givinglers a platform and tools to connect with nearly 20 million buyers and to sell products as eclectic as a tuxedo cat scarf, a hand-made felt fox and a cinderella dress. how does etsy make money? the company charges 20 cents to list a single item for four months, if it sells, it takes a 3.5% cut. etsy charges for prominent placement in search results, for payment processing and shipping labels. in 2014 etsy grew revenue 56% to $196 million. but its net loss widesened to more than $15 million. from a loss of $800,000 the prior year. as the company invested more in marketing. now etsy says its mission is to reimagine commerce. it's the biggest-ever ipo of a b corp. etsy earning that certification for meeting social and environmental standards, kind of like lead green buildings by composting and setting aside 5% of preipo shares for its vendors. the ceo writing in the s 1 quote i believe that etsy can be a public company that intel grates concerns of people and the planet, the present and t

last night on cnbc asia julia boorstin sat down with linkedin ceo jeff winer. >> at heart we're tryingr members to opportunity whether finding a job or advancing throughout your career and learning the skills you need to take that next step. and that's exactly what lynda.com is all about, it's really a world-class organization when it comes to building consistent, high quality content, that we believe our members are going to benefit from tremendously. >> interesting action on the stock. not quite 5-week high but awfully close. >> went from 249 to 264. when we were on yesterday morning the stock was relatively flat. we were wondering if investors didn't like the price. in the past two days they've gotten their few percentage points on the content centric acquisition. >> i think it's been a week where we've been talking nonstop about m&a and energy. m&a and pharma. obviously there's going to be m&a in financial services. is tech poised to be doing this, at least among companies that have high growth like a linkedin? >> when you look at the nasdaq half of the gains from year to date came

. >>> looks like our julia boorstin rejoins us now with more on linkedin. right. linkedin sharing its quarterly results, prepared remarks they'll say at the top of the earnings conference call. the company revealing that its members grew 23% to 364 million active users. that's just a hair above estimates. right in line with what wall street had expecting. the company also says in these prepared remarks for the conference call that the quarter's growth was impacted by changes in frororeign exchange rates. that's something we've seen impact a number of these big social media companies including facebook. they say revenue growth year over year would have been three points higher on currency adjusted basis. that's one point in there as linkedin tries to moderate that impact from currency exchange swings. but it is really the outlook for q2 as well as the rest of the year that's sending that stock down more than 20%. >> julia, thank you. guy, to you. foreign exchange certainly a factor, but an overriding one? >> not this much. they took full year guidance from $3

julia boorstin is in l.a. how does this happen?s not a result of a hack into the servers. journalists who received advanced copies are responsible for leaking the first four episodes of game of thrones. the digital water mark was blurred out on the pirated copies. 1.7 million people had illegally downloaded the show. as of now that number is 3.5 million. hbo saying sadly it seems it originated by a group approved by hbo to receive them. we are assessing how the breech occurred. time-warner ceo said game of throwns is the most pirated show in the world is better than an emmy. with hbo's new app, they love to convert pirates to paying customers. >> if this was leaked out to an individual who leaked it out to other individuals, what if anything can do you to prevent this in the future other than simply saying to critics, sorry, you are going to have to watch it like everybody else when it premiers. >> that seems to be the most obvious. it wasn't leaked out to a critic, it was sent to a critic with the idea that they would review it an

. >> our julia boorstin has the skinny on this deal now. hi julia. >> hi kelly.is is linkedin's biggest acquisition by a factor of ten. ceo jeff weiner says it expands the company's potential market opportunity by $30 billion. online education company linda offer -- lynda the opportunity to improve creative skills offering 3,000 online courses, adding an average of 60 more per month. the company grew its revenue about 20% last year to $150 million. about 2/3 of that is from individual consumers. the other third is from businesses paying monthly or annual fees from limited access to lynda's course library. shares on the rise today for the potential for the two companies to grow together. linkedin could identify skills its members need to recommend particular lynda class. linkedin has nearly 350 million members, so the potential, if even a small percentage of them pay the starting fee of $25 a month could be huge. bill? >> all right julia, thank you very much. so what will this deal do for linkedin's stock in the future? >> let's roll it out. james joins us saying

julia julia boorstin. >> the company deals with a foreign exchange swing, 38 cents per share, comparedxpectations of 69 cents. up just one penny -- sorry, down from 86 cents a year ago. earnings per share coming in lighter than expected. revenue coming in at 1.57 billion, right there with expectations. subscriber additions, the company adding many more subscribers than expected. adding over the course of the quarter, 4.9 million subscribers, total compared to a forecast of 4.1 million subscribers in the quarter. the big upside there, in terms of subscriber additions coming from overseas. in the u.s. the company gained 2.3 million new subscribers versus a forecast of 1.8 but internationally was the big beat there, adding 2.6 million new streaming subscribers overseas as the company continues to ramp its expansion. looking at the forecast for q2 because of course the company does provide guidance there, it looks like they expect -- the guidance is stronger than wall street had been expecting in terms of those streaming numbers which wall street is paying very close attention to. that for

first julia boorstin joins us with a look at what this could mean for universal pictures which is a comcast company. what a long introduction julia. what did you think? >> bill, this film's success is a huge win for universal. "fast and furious 7 qwest" is on track to gross as much as $1 billion, this on the back of the biggest opening ever for a film not based on a comic book or a young adult novel. universal and its financing partners will more than makeroughly $200 million to make the movie. they're working on an eighth movie. it also supports a strong launch for universal's "fast and furious" attraction that opens at universal studios hollywood in june. this big weekend bodes well for a massive summer season on the back of mega franchises like marvel's "avengers" sequel and "jurassic world" that should help the u.s. box office rebound from last year's 5% decline. one thing all the studios are talking about today is that for "fast 7" is diverse cast drew a big diverse audience. 37% of its u.s. audience was hispanic and 24% african-american. this should encourage the studios to showcase m

julia boorstin has more for us now. >> i know you have been talking about the company saying that revenueslower than expected contributions. the company making two announcements that mayhem address some of that weakness. one is that twitter announced a partnership with google's double click to help improve advertising performance measurement for those direct response marketers. as part of that partnership twitter is going to make ad inventory available through double click. so advertisers who want to centralize all their ad buying will have access to twitter ad inventory as well. the second piece of news is that twitter announced it has agreed to acquire telepart marketing technology company for retailers and e-commerce advertisers. its specialty is retargeting through ad products and e-mail marketing to retarget people who are specifically making purchases. now, one key thing to note there is twitter ceo dec costoloick costolo. so two big pieces of news there as twitter tries to improve its results through better targeting. kelly? >> julia thank you so much. twitter shares off their lows

. >> julia boorstin thanks so much. let's talk to dr.tributor and also monster.com. >> just as dan nathan said with you, the options have been extremely positive. right now, the straddle is trading for $4.66. that means, of course they're pricing in about 5.5% move between today and friday. most concentration, largest open interest change is right up at the 90 strike. so in other words, a little over $5 higher than where the stock is. >> are you buying into this? are you a believer in the facebook story. >> i am. >> yes. >> i have bought into facebook through a call spread and i believe it's going to beat after the bell and/or offer positive. >> ad revenues that has to be an important metric. >> daily active users, weekly active users and monthly active users are important to them. how the new video ads are playing out is huge. >> they have to start monetizing a lot of these properties. >> and twitter has periscope now. you have that. >>> ebay qualcomm, at&t, we'll cover them all. in the meantime, "closing bell" starts right now. >>> tha