job openings on linkedin have doubled in the past year.hey keep doubling, will they keep doubling, i am not sure? caroline: what about omicron as well? this is the cloud that we confront in the here and the now that has companies, lululemon saying that they have issues with labor and wage inflation. is not something you can give us a tell on in terms of the data you are saying in this instance? >> we have looked to see omicron in our data, i think it is too early to tell. i do suspect based on what was done in the past that we are learning to live with it more effectively. with each successive wave of the pandemic combo have done a little bit better in terms of not getting knocked down as far. i would imagine with omicron we will recover more quickly than we do with delta. my guess is that we are going to see a play out in the gin where he data that comes out in a month -- january data comes out in a month. in our data, we are not seeing it. it is not showing a huge downturn. caroline: i want to get your thoughts on the data that we got ou

joining me now is janine chamberlin, who's the uk country manager at linkedin.the uk?— like in the uk? i think it would be _ like in the uk? i think it would be an _ like in the uk? i think it would be an exciting i like in the uk? i think it| would be an exciting year like in the uk? i think it - would be an exciting year for jobseekers. confidence is soaring in the uk, despite the fact the pandemic has changed the way we work. nine out of ten people feeling confident and there current role, which might be contributing to the sense of looking for new opportunities. more than two—thirds of people in the uk are expecting or wanting to change, one in five looking for a new role right now.- change, one in five looking for a new role right now. where are the skills? _ a new role right now. where are the skills? we _ a new role right now. where are the skills? we are _ a new role right now. where are the skills? we are hearing i a new role right now. where are the skills? we are hearing a i the skills? we are hearing a lot from employers they cannot find the people t

there is one person hired every 15 seconds right now on linkedin. >> whitaker: but linkedin's data onleaving jobs is most compelling: millions of baby boomers retiring early, but also millions of "gen z" workers-- people in their teens and early 20s. many more women than men. in all, the highest "quit rate" since the government started keeping track, two decades ago. >> kimbrough: at the nationwide level, the number of americans quitting their job is higher than ever. >> whitaker: higher than ever? >> kimbrough: higher than ever. >> whitaker: do the data tell you why? >> kimbrough: we can see what sectors people are quitting-- retail sectors and hospitality sectors. it may not just be worth it for some folks. and so, s-- in some cases, people are quitting, and they're not yet returning. they're taking a break. americans are burnt out. i like to think of it as-- it's a, "take this job and shove it" measure. it's just a sign of people saying, "you know, i don't need this." >> whitaker: "i'm out." >> kimbrough: "i'm out." >> whitaker: the most recent data show people quitting jobs across

i'm having flashbacks to my linkedin days, no one saw it coming. tell us more about what happened behind the scenes. >> i was on a plane the morning the linkedin deal got announced. it took me by surprise. this was not one any of us had a heads up on. clearly what happened here was microsoft took note of the scandals and controversy that were roiling activision. you saw the share price come down. all of the questions being raised about leadership, the direction of the company, the culture, resonated. as these stories were coming out, as the management was embroiled in all of this, that is when satya nadella asked some of his deputies to reach out to the folks at activision to find out may be right now is the time to start thinking about something along these lines. we are told bobby cardica initially was resistant to the deal. but he himself sent out sailors to see if microsoft came in, any of the other big players might be willing to follow suit. maybe strike up something of a bidding war. those are some of the kind of behind the scenes color that

microsoft stepped in and bought linkedin. tableau got purchased, too.hink we are going to set ourselves up potentially for that backdrop. that drawdown was more substantial than we have seen today, but the innovation is probably more substantial today, so obviously it hasn't happened yet. we have seen the rebound, the nasdaq up 10% or so from the bottom from the lows of friday. we will see that because innovation never dies, and i think there's lots of opportunity for these big companies to buy these broken angels if that happens, and i think they are assembling their lists, and that example is a perfect one for what we saw a recently. kailey: innovation never dies. i'm going to get that printed on a t-shirt. thank you so much to mark lehman, jmp securities ceo. we do want to get to some breaking news for the oil market. we just got the eia inventory data. crude inventory is up 2.3 8 million barrels last week, a larger build than the estimate for just one million barrels. interestingly, you're still seeing crude climbing right around session highs on wt

linkedin is friendly everyone is a gentleman.hen i look at my twitter feed, my mention feed, i want to put people in jail i don't want to put people in jail from linkedin >> ea up 7% premarket. what names are we going to need to be watching. >> i think zynga was the beginning of what take two needed it's mobile. mobile is exciting and they had been kind of resisting mobile i think the idea that you can buy electronic arts today because of this means that you think that metaverse can do it, meta platforms, i don't think they can i don't think activision is going to be -- i don't think there's going to be a problem with the deal. but it is going to be held up. i'm saying it will get completed. >> and you're talking antitrust. it would not appear on the face of it that this should be viewed as anticompetitive but given the current situation in terms of regulation, it's going to get a hard look interestingly, microsoft is at the back of the line at antitrust worries, which is kind of funny, given there are battles with the u.s. gover

his linkedin page said he's a board certified ob/gyn.answered my phone call and declined to speak with us. if you have kernd about a covid-19 testing site, they remember calling 31 wn, and you can also call us and we want to hear from you. 888-996-tips. if you want to do it in writing, we welcome in. >> a lot of good information, chris. just kind of a grassroots bottom line question here, what if i got tested there? is that test legit? >> in the past, we have talked with public health about that. they say if you have concerned, you should get retested. just throw those results out essentially and try to get tested again somewhere else, somewhere you trust f you're wondering where, call 311. call public health and ask them. >> okay, good digging. thanks so much. >> well, some health leaders say the numbers show we may have peaked or may be close to peaking in this omicron surge, but they warn this won't be the last variant. and may not be the most serious one. the head of infectious diseases and global public health at uc san diego says h

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linkedin is the largest online network. there are about 530 million members using our site.is large enough to be able to provide energy for up to 200,000 homes. >> our mission is sustainability, even though our bikes are minimal energy use, it still matters where the energy comes from and part of our mission in sustainability is how we run everything -- run our business. having the lights come on with clean energy is very important. >> the sunset reservoir has solar panels that take up about four city blocks covering the reservoir and the solar power generates energy for city resources and clean power sf for residents participating in the program. >> it was easy to sign up for the program, i went online to cleanpowersf.org and i started getting pieces in the mail letting me know i was going to be switched over and it just happened. when i pay my bill, i still go to pg and e and i don't see any difference between now and a year ago. >> sign up online, just have your account number ready and it takes about two minutes and there's nothing to install. no lines are getting connec

their azure cloud busy is growing like crazy i'd argue that linkedin is the most unnote d out there.'t have time to check back pfurther than five years. this is fabulous earning story. it's on fire even though no one gives it credit. they are all fashion base data business doing a lot better than you might expect the stock rallied more than 15% in response. oracle announced a big acquisition. there's big health care solve for a business i think they can use this deal to roll up the entire fragmented electronics base an the world. this is another one where the recent pull back is letting you in at an amazing price i've singled out apple, cisco, imbm and oracle which maybe is the best bet of all. let's go to matthew in south carolina matthew. >> caller: hi, jim >> what's up >> caller: my question is about ring central you said i've been listening all week and you said look for the value stock that actually have a service of product this one had a 23 value to earnings on november 22nd when it was $230 a share. now it's trading at 173. >> that's because it's not making money people say y

own career paths in san juan, puerto rico shannon lists riordan, a labor law attorney at the firm, linkedin and lis riordan, p c. and in tokyo, casey won't ceo and co founder of attuned dot a i a recruiting platform that uses artificial intelligence to understand what motivates employees a warm welcome to you all. and thanks for joining us today on inside story shannon, let me start with you. we know that the pandemic has transformed the workplace. for many, we know that there are millions of workers out there who have achieved more flexibility by being able to work remotely from home. but i want to ask you about those workers who aren't able to work from home. i'm talking about gig workers, i'm talking about essential workers. how has all this impacted them? well, yes. and then it has really exacerbated a divide between the haves and have nots. you might say there are a lot of people who have gained flexibility from being able to work wherever, whenever. and there are a lot of people out there who have the luxury of working essential workers, good workers, grocery store workers, hospital w

own career paths in san juan, puerto rico shannon lists riordan, a labor law attorney at the firm, linkedin and lis riordan, p c. and in tokyo, casey wall seo and co founder of a tuned dot, a i a recruiting platform that uses artificial intelligence to understand what motivates employees a warm welcome to you all. and thanks for joining us today. on inside story shannon, let me start with you. we know that the pandemic has transformed the workplace. for many, we know that there are millions of workers out there who have achieved more flexibility by being able to work remotely from home. but i want to ask you about those workers who aren't able to work from home. i'm talking about gig workers, i'm talking about essential workers. how has all this impacted them? well, yes, that hand and it has really exacerbated vide between the haves and have nots. you might say there are a lot of people who have gained flexibility from being able to work wherever, whenever i and there are a lot of people out there who have the luxury of working no ha, essential workers, gig workers, groceries for workers an

now the new rules include linkedin voting times while limiting the number of boats that actually happen on the floor. k $95.00 or k and $95.00 mask will actually be required on the floor, and taxpayers will now be stuck with providing a 40 k $95.00 mask per office per month now. and we did some quick math for you. that $17400.00 mask per month. which honestly is a nice purchase order for some company, which will probably give a government rate. and if it's like anything else, the government paid for. it's going to be higher than free cost. but all those taxpayer dollars in the cost of these masks, we get what we pay for. will they be sure to keep house members from catching cove? it? well, according to statistics, a 104 representatives and senators have actually tested positive for coven 19. and with the blue and red states having us representatives of falling sick since march 2020, now of them 100 percent of those elected as democrats or vaccinated. and even though we don't have the exact percentage of vaccinate republicans, can we actually blame the high number of positive cases in th

they can even have a facebook page, linkedin page. so what, what does some advertising to me anyway? it is mostly a democratic exercise, but here's my information. everybody can have access to it. that's good. yes. you know, i've been on tab scott downsides too. because rackets and scams also use advertising times an industry. but financials have been long restricted in their free speech rights, and what they can come out take. so that the way to understand what's going on here and see what other countries is. you know, it's been a long effort for like a year or 2 or longer to try to regulate criptos that way they regulate regular financial. so of course that's going to impact on free speech rights and that's come to the u. s. for search. and so crypto companies and exchanges will not be allowed to advertise and enrolled in the way they'll be treated like hedge funds, arch day, or a lot of talk companies, which is, you know, they get the cab speak out and what to dances, limit it kind of limits the information flows only to the lead t

linkedin is the largest online network. there are about 530 million members using our site.o office there's about 1400 employees working in roughly 400,000 square feet. >> after signing up for the program we heard about the san francisco program and learned they had commercial rates and signed up for that. i'm the co-owner of the new wheel electric bike shop. we opened this store in 2012 and the new wheel sells and services electric bikes. 11 people work here in san francisco and our store is about 2,000 square feet. electric bikes are fantastic for transportation in the city, they're clean and green and you get places faster than any other form of transportation. it amplifies the power, it doesn't replace it. it makes it easier to get places by bicycle and it's so enjoyable and environmentally friendly way to go and more convenient in san francisco. >> clean power sf requires two products, green, 40% renewable and competitively priced with pg and e. for those who want to fight climate change more, 100% renewable at $0.02 per kilawatt. >> i decided to go with the super green

emily: vc's also have a role to play and you callout reid hoffman, cofounder of linkedin for his method what is wrong with that? hemant: read is a great friend and blitz failing represents a playbook for growth, how we can build companies fast. there is nothing wrong with that except that when you are moving really fast, there can be unintended consequences. what we are advocating in this book is to have a playbook for responsible innovation. mindset, mechanisms, business model choices, product choices, governance, the lives you -- that allows you to make sure these companies are not moving fast and breaking things and are working for all stakeholders of society. emily: meta, formerly known as facebook, i spoke with andrew bosworth, here is what he had to say about responsible innovation there. >> we can do a lot better job than we have historically because we have a record of the types of abuses that have happened in digitally-connected spaces. emily: should we believe facebook or now, meta are they a responsible -- meta? are they a responsible player? hemant: any company has a chance

linkedin, really reflective on this.cook, his commencement speech is worth reading at stanford where he says we cannot be human if everything is known about us and we have an obligation to be responsible with the data. of course while he admires gandhi and john lewis. you have people in the valley who are very thoughtful, reflective. but we need to make sure is there is a broader conversation across the platform. they have done a lot of good i am proud of representing the area. but they have a much bigger representation to the 21st century democracy. caroline: talk to us about your obligation now and your role to make laws. what is the legislative outlook for 2022 which you think could bring to bear some positive change for the social media i forms? >> we have to do two things. by 2025, we are going to have 25 million digital jobs in this country. we need to make sure rural america, black and brown communities, have access to modern prosperity, that young people across the country have the ability to have opportunities i

you can catch the whole thing on linkedin.king about how capital markets will affect the sustainable future as well as financial stability and fighting financial crime. we will break down all of that in a second. it's important to set the stage. the last few weeks have been very tumultuous if you are a long tech investor. how does it affect your business? how will it affect things like ipo's, spacs? adena: it's important to recognize, when i look at capital markets, i look at long-term performance. the technology industry has always and will continue to be a long-term armor. that is a bright spot in our economy. in the very short term we are dealing with a very dynamic environment, both in terms of the political environment, economic environment. then you overlay that on the need for central banks around the world to make some adjustments to their monetary policy. that is what is creating volatility. investors don't like uncertainty. right now, these adjustments that seem to be forthcoming, at least predicted around monetary p

working remotely there among many businesses adjusting the return to office plan joining us now former linkedin chief hr officer steve to talk about what this means. thank you for joining us there are a lot of businesses not just the finance world trying to bring the workers back into the office in reverse the plan and extend the return date, what does this mean for these businesses all across america. >> this is a hard period of time everyone is trying to adjust to something we never dealt with before not only are we having to change how we work and create organizations but we have a workforce that is carrying a lot of burdens outside of office my kids education, proper groceries and things like that the world has changed and presented a real burden for businesses on how they will lead and organize through this. molly: whether or not your child goes to school, the big question do workers want to come back or do they prefer to work from home or is it a mix gallup did some pulling in a sample of workers that could work from home gallup found 30% would never coming, 10% while all the days back in

linkedin is the largest online network. there are about 530 million members using our site. 1400 employees working in roughly 400,000 square feet. >> after signing up for the program we heard about the san francisco program and learned they had commercial rates and signed up for that. i'm the co-owner of the new wheel electric bike shop. we opened this store in 2012 and the new wheel sells and services electric bikes. 11 people work here in san francisco and our store is about 2,000 square feet. electric bikes are fantastic for transportation in the city, they're clean and green and you get places faster than any other form of transportation. it amplifies the power, it doesn't replace it. it makes it easier to get places by bicycle and it's so enjoyable and environmentally friendly way to go and more convenient in san francisco. >> clean power sf requires two products, green, 40% renewable and competitively priced with pg and e. for those who want to fight climate change more, 100% renewable at $0.02 per kilawatt. >> i decided to go with the super greens, after finding it on

that's according to his linkedin profile. if that wasn't enough to raise some red flags, schumer's other daughter alison also works at facebook. she is in marketing. sounds an awful lot like the man in charge of advancing big tech antitrust legislation in the senate has a huge family interest in the process. now, only a moron wouldn't see that conflict. and it's not just the democrat leaders of congress who are making family moves, in the white house, papa joe has done everything can he to take the stink off his son hunterrens fishy business deals. hunter's connection with ukraine well documented here on fox. we discussed last night how hunterrens deals netted the biden family 30 million bucks from chinese profiteers linked to communist spies. and since his son was making money off the communist country, it's no surprise joe biden was so quick to talk down the china threat, just a couple years back. >> china is going to eat our lunch? come on, man. they can't even figure out how to deal with the the fact that they have this g

well, two weeks ago i joined linkedin, not because i wanted to but i wanted to contact the ceo of anr and dryer. i got the washer and dryer motor. downside is now you get all these emails because i listed as my occupation host. i'm getting a lot of interesting job applications and offers. take a look at this. for being a host. so new york presbyterian hospital i could be the dining host where i could graciously serve food and beverages to patients, staff and visitors. but the large serving trays way up to 40 pounds so that might be a problem for me. at hard rock this is what is exciting i get to greet, seat and page guest and also assume the role of a tour guide. >> jesse: your table is ready. >> greg: i have been practicing that for year. party of 7 your table is ready the problem with that skill required remaining calm in a hectic fast-paced environment. i'm out. so anyway, this is great. if i get canned here, i have a lot of stuff to fall back on. >> dana: really good networking you have going on. you know how phones and noises of phones bother me? look at this, goshy, look what h

. >> reporter: so we enlisted the help of linkedin career expert andrew mccaskill who had the chance do to get my foot in the door. >> reporter: cierra is doing so many right things, she has a great picture on her linkedin profile. she's got her skills highlighted there. one thing i think she should do is look at hashtag open to work. that alerts all recruiters i'm looking for a new opportunity. >> reporter: her next question? >> what's the best way to start networking. >> one is get a warm introduction from somebody that you already know. secondly, be specific with the ask when you do make that connection. busy people need specificity. third, refresh their memory. point out something that you got in common. >> reporter: and finally, how to get that response. andrew says persistence is key. >> being first to respond. being highly responsive to a recruiter. sending a follow-up note. all of those things still really, really matter. >> those are all great tips. rebecca, many if not most people as you know are networking and interviewing virtually, so how should a job hunter prepare for

that has any attention to it like "mary of kingstown" season 3 considering that microsoft bought linkedinistic of companies, and they know when to buy and use cash to pay for the deal there are a whole host of reasons why activision blizzard fit, they're trying to take over the xbox business with 500 million users. at the same time activision, they can help them catch up in the metaverse race each if you don't believe in the technology and i know a lot of younger people are dubious, wall street is totally in love with the conscept and that's what wil matter in the future it's the reason why they're sticking with nvidia as we highlighted today for the first time we live in a strange world where we expect biden's federal trade commission the ftc to block all mergers. i asked bob about it this morning on "squawk on the street." electronic arts and amazon, sony and nintendo the stock is still trading eight a huge discount to the bid and microsoft is paying 95 in cash and some governments around the world might try to stop this deal it's anticompetitive and the story is the kind that should be

for instance, on linkedin she wrote i shouldn't be banned from anything if you don't contact me my referencesscooby-doo and jfk. gutfeld is winning for comedy. judicial watch john banned from tiktok on the same day. >> and facebook forced to apologize after banning ads from conservative book publisher whose hero of liberty series include books about amy coney barrett, ronald reagan and thomas seoul folks these are big tech sensor she know stories from just the last few days. as joe biden would say but we need it that's not a joke. here to discuss we're doing it fight back against beg tech censorship is ranked rand paul is appears you are scrapping big sensors that youtube over there, and making move over to rumble why what happened. explain to us what happened. dges you know for quite a while now, been upset with youtube about a year ago they took down a speech i gave on the senate floor. and as you know, speech on the senate floor is protected by constitution that doesn't force them to those or to have my speech but for the gull and arrogance to decide they know better than the entire state

big speeches as you were writing yours or looking for inspiration or probably checked back with linkedin every once in a while. >> we did. in our first year for sure when we didn't know what we were doing at certain events, it's like what does a president do on memorial day? what does a president say on x day? we would go back and look at both the bush and clinton speeches to see what they usually said. for foreign policy speeches we would look back at kennedy a lot. president obama would guide us to certain times. in september of 2008 during the campaign when the economy fell apart, he told us specifically go back and look and see what fdr was saying to an anxious nation. when we started having troubles with congress in 2010/2011, he would say look at some truman do nothing congress stuff. he would guide us certain places. >> i think we will leave it there. i just want to thank all three of you. this has been so wonderful. i have really enjoyed this conversation. i hope our audience enjoyed it half as much as i did. john mcconnell and ambassador and cody keenan, thank you so much. >> th

$70 billion acquisition of activision blizzard is by far micro soft's biggest followed by link e linkedin here is how activision bobby kotick explained why the combined company does not create monopoly power >> one of the motivations that we had for a partnership with microsoft is the recognition of it's a big market but enormous amounts of competition whether it's ten cent who has resources that are extraordinary and global footprint or sony or facebook or amazon or apple or google or netflix or disney. when you think about the race for the metaverse and for the more influence in gaming in the gaming ecosystem, we have now seen more competition than ever before >> we should get a lot more insight into the regulatory chances of this deal at the top houfrt when the department of justice and federal trade commission are holding a joint press conference they are expected to share their updated merger guidelines. then we'll hear from lena khan directly tomorrow on cnbc's capital exchanges at 10:00 a.m. eastern live on your second screen at cnbc.com/capitalexchange of course we'll bring you al

also linkedin. how about a great gaming business with, strong pc business azure.this one for the -- it's been a battle to deep it on the sheets because the stock is going up so much and it is certainly not cheap. microsoft has become the biggest momentum stock in the world and i bet it will stay that way because it las a habit of crushing the estimates it's down 30 points from the high now, momentum stocks aren't just companies that have no earnings, okay momentum stocks can be companies where they just keep beating the numbers. but down 30 points is a lot for this stock and it might be time to start a position. third, goldman sachs got the -- rallying 45% but i just keep thinking that my old investment plura has to do something to get more respect from the stock market after this monitor run the darn thing sells at less than ten times earnings. i find that preposterously cheap. wall street is getting its collective head around goldman no one seems to want to give them credit for that it has an amazing -- it never got to the point where that's what the stock trade

resellers are listing testing kits for sale on craigslist, e-bay, even on sites like linkedin. but health experts warn that that might not be the best idea, fake and overpriced at home. covid tests are all too common right now on authorized retailers often try to profit by selling these kits at incredibly high market prices. the federal trade commission released an online guide to avoid being scammed by people selling fake testing kits. they advise you to use your credit card so that you can dispute the charge if you discover your scammed and only by kits from approved fda sources. meanwhile, since covid tests are in such high demand, t at governor now has signed an executive order banning price gouging for these at-home kits. the order prohibits sellers from increasing prices on test kits by more than 10% and and a seller who violates that order? well, they could be fined or even receive jail time. anyone who's been a victim of price gouging for these at-home test kits are encouraged to file a complaint with the state attorney general's office. they will take a look at. govern

their letter says she's very nervous about posting the photo on her linkedin page. boss key for the confidence that she needed. looks great. both waste. now, this is the hottest game on the internet and rich demuro talks were dull in today's tech smart have you heard of this? i have not quite sure what it is, but i'm curious to find out also does rich know the answer to did it to today's puzzle? wardle is a free daily online word game that everyone seems to be playing. >> here's what it's all about. and some tips to help you win. >> so that means we have the are in the right place wordle and there's also an essendon, ian, this weren't a simple online work game that suddenly everyone seems to playing. it's a great game. first of all, right. that's the basis of anything being popular daily game gives you 6 chances to guess a 5 letter word. so i'm thinking scale, but i know isn't the word. so that would not be a good correct? letters are highlighted green means a letter is in the right spot. yellow means the letter is in the word but not in the right spots. it's really

for instance, on linkedin she wrote, "i shouldn't be banned from anything.u don't believe me, contact my references. elvis, scooby doo and jfk. [ laughter and applause yeah and then on instagram she posted a selfie, and wrote, "does this look like someone who should be banned from twitter, and walmart, and waffle house, and spirit airlines [ laughter and applause next up on tinder she wrote, "i enjoy long walks through the capital on january 6th." [ laughter and applause then on reddit, she wrote, "uh, the snow in washington is miserable. thanks alot, jews who control the weather with a giant laser. [ laughter and applause and finally on facebook she wrote, "even for me, y'all are too crazy. [ laughter and applause that's where she draws the line facebook >> steve: too much too much >> jimmy: well, this is wild i saw that because of a huge winter storm, a 50-mile stretch of i-95 in virginia was shut down, and drivers were stranded on the interstate for more than 24 hours meanwhile, there was a dad sitting there like, "if could i just get over the one lane."

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so microsoft is willing to pay for this more than double the amount it did for linkedin about 6 years ago. why does the company want to make such a big push into gaming? well i think 1st off, you have to realize that microsoft is already very invested in gaming with, with the ex fox console and with pc gaming. and so this is doing something that's essentially strengthening their position. it's if it goes through, it'll probably bump them up to be one of the top 3 game companies in the world. does the value of the company and the, the cost of this acquisition pops, reflect the surge in popularity in gaming, particularly during the pandemic. yeah, you know, gaming has definitely been on the rise over the last year or so, especially with everything going on with the pandemic. more people are playing games. there's been a, i think when they announce this news, they mentioned that there are 3000000000 gamers out there. and, and that number's supposed to jump up to 4 and a half or more than 4 and a half by 2030. so gaming is a huge market. and activision blizzard was one of the top 10, or i

liesman, mark zandy for moody's annual ethics, anthony klotz and karen kimbra chief economist for linkedineve, walk me through this number. it's confusing. >> yeah, well, i can say, stephanie, if you are not confused you are not paying attention. there's two different reports that people need to know b there's one report that gets data from the employers, another report where the government calls up people and asks them their status. the number you are looking at right now that's from the payroll report, that's 199,000. that number has been running very low on the initial reporting, and what they're doing is they've been revising up continuously this initial report. i will give you an example. they added back 141,000 additional jobs to october/november. the number underneath that number, the unemployment rate, comes from the household survey. i think at the end of the day, stephanie, people should not be overly confused or overwhelmed by the data. the unemployment rate is what you need to know. it tells you the number of people who want to work and the number of people who are unemployed.

, business communications, business commuting and linkedin fit in with that.er side of microsoft >> mike, thank you >>> andrew, i know we have another voice. >> yep, i was going to see we will bring in dan ives we georgia him on the line of web bush securities. this is a company that's been on to a b2b company, this is moving them back to much more of a b2c and as we have been discussing this met ja vrmetaverse. >> it's been the consumer piece, nadella are going on the aggressive here. this is at a time where they know other tech platforms, amazons, apples and others they can do an acquisition this size so this is them flexing their muscles in terms of doing a bigger deal here to really get an aggressive fund it's not on gaming near metaverse and other areas. nadella, once he missed out on tiktok, there was an appetite for a much bigger consumer play. >> dan, there is no question that 91 of the others, i would argue, apple, amazon, google or alpha bet would have an almost impossible time in washington getting this deal approved the question i ask is whether mi

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before yesterday's acquisition announceth of activision blizzard, what was the largest deal linkedinthe professional networking site >>> morgan stanley out with its results because we have the slow burnings today wilfred is back. he has more on that. >> reporter: yes, revenue basically inline, fractionally behind 14.5 billion, eps ahead $2.01. i want to j ump to the compensation and non-compensation expect. both below expectation compensation expense 5.5 billion. the forecast was for 6 billion and fawn compensation expense 4.1 become that's pretty much in line with forecast perhaps fractionally impacts ahead. overall expenses behind expectations number, on the revenue line, some interesting thing going into institutional security business slightly different from the rivals equity trading is strong 2.9 billion. the forecast was for 2.4, up 13% year over year other capital markets equity trading the hardest area to perform. the fixed income trading like the others is down year over year theirs is down 13% investment banking was strong again up year over year only up 6% at 2.4 billion.