what do you think amazon saw in kiva?eauty of kiva was that nick had seen that in a traditional e-commerce warehouse, the typical worker spends 75%, almost 90% of their time walking in the warehouse, trying to find a particular item you're looking for. you think about something like amazon, with 150 million individual items in their warehouse that they are carrying on their website. a consumer may order any combination of those items. kiva is,ht with instead of having the work or go to the shelf, which could be a 10 minute walk, a 20 minute walk, why not use robots to bring the shelving directly to the worker, remove that 80% to 90% time walking, and make the individual worker three times more productive than they would ordinarily be? >> i have spent time at those amazon fulfillment centers, with the pickers and stowers. they think they walk 10 to 12 miles a day at that job. >> it's incredible. you think about the issues that amazon has at this time of year with the holiday season, when they are probably doing 50% of thei

so, right before the meeting we finalized a press release with kiva zip. so, i will be forwarding that on to you. and i do think that we might have our first lender. our first borrower, i should say. and i will send you that information. you do have attached some of the criteria which we're using as our internal guide in making the recommendations. we are starting out with just three borrowers for right now just to make sure that we don't overcommit ourselves. we're doing a good job doing vetting and making referrals to kiva as a trustee. with that, i would like to by the end of january have a total of three borrowers that we have up on the site. and then i do want to say that we are getting close finalizing some of our outreach for material in the gross receipts. we will be doing an official campaign launch, the city, in january. so, and we will be having a full presentation for you at the january 27th meeting. and then i think lastly what i just want to identify is that the holiday seasons are coming up. so, i've provided you a list with all of our econo

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amazon's rollout of 1400 robots at its warehouses from the company it bought last year called kiva systems could save it $900 million a year according to analysts at the capital markets. google is certainly steering far and wide from its focus search, but larry paige, its ceo has talked about the importance of what he calls moon shot, big, bold ideas that can seem like sci-fi thrillers. analysts also point out that google only puts money to work in businesses that it thinks can be profitable and generate at least $5 billion in revenue in a reasonable amount of time. josh lipton, "nightly business report". >>> we begin tonight's "market focus" with a big buyback. boeing announced a $10 billion share repurchased and a 50% increase in its quarterly dividend. after today's closing bell the company said the move came because of strong operational performance and an increase in cash flow and confidence in the future. shares popped initially in after hour, but the stock ended the day slightly high more $134.72. >>> pfizer is hiking its quarterly dividend by 5% which will be payable to share holde

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so there's kiva and some other programs like that. and then you have the cabot foundation that has notes that any individual -- i think there's a limit to them, but individuals can invest with that foundation, for example, and those funds would be with invested in a cdfi. so trillian, other entities like that. so those are two kinds of examples. one is an individual organization that has a strategy such as kiva where they're doing that, and the other is an investor type of strategy that tries to mobilize those funds. >> i think one thing i'd add on that we didn't really talk about here, there is one kind of asset-building program in the country, and one of the things you can do match savings for is business start-up. and then without that federal funding, you need to raise additional match to that. a lot of the ida programs around the country do raise dollars from individuals to help match those savings. >> there are also groups, less institutionalized groups, angel investors who do look at a wide range of applicants, and, you know, i

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amazon's rollout of robots from a company it bought last year called kiva systems could save it $9 hadlip tton in san jos. this move snapping up the creator of the fastest-running robots. is larry page the new jack welch. jack steinberg joins us today. good to have you back. >> the ge of the internet world. >> just listening to josh's segments. giant robots and youtube views as a way to thread the line between the two efforts. i think it is very hard. maybe google is a conglomerate that's held together by a general interest in internet and teg technology. they have youtube, g mail and self-driving cars and robots. maybe it is the next conglomerate. >> there have been vanity projects so to speak in the past. the self-driving car was called that for a very long time. do you think this is playing with house money or play money? >> i don't think it is a vanity project. apple doesn't have anything to do with their cash. that's equally a problem if you can't put up growth. we are looking at smart cars. the company needs other places to invest. factory automation seems like a weird thing to s