>> of the on-line sales, one in three purchases was done on mobile devices. one in three.them. they've transformed our lives and we're browsing the internet and shopping and putting the credit card numbers in the phone and don't have remorse about it. stuart: it's a true revolution in shopping. i've got my iphone here, are they making it easy for me to shop with this thing? >> the iphone in particular, the numbers i have, will blow you away. apple dominates e-commerce with 80% of mobile orders yesterday. 80%. stuart: that's apple, the iphone? >> not the galaxy or-- >> samsung did better and the google operating system is up 13% of sales last year. 20% in year is google powered local devices, that's a big step forward. apple at 80%. >> are they doing something well that samsung and enjoyed have not? >> i think they've convinced us all, it's a friendly easy to use interface and no one is i go this about what about those guys trying to steal my bank account? it's become such a part of our life. stuart: apple stock is up $10 the last time i checked. so they're responding to wh

on her backpack and on her bike. to a company called alegro trucking. an investigation into the crash is continuing. >>> lottery officials are celebrating a san jose store that sold one of two winning tickets in last night's megamillions drawing. janine de la vega joins us live from perhaps the most popular gift shop in all of san jose. has the owner showed up yet? >> reporter: no, haven't shown up. we don't know if it's a he or a she. there's so much media here. there are california lottery officials. they have signs here saying millionaire made here. they posted up one of the signs on the door of jenny's gift store. that's the store here on tully road that sold the winning ticket. now, the person that won the ticket, again, has not come forward. but they beat the incredible odds. there was a 1 in 259 million chance of winning. now, california lottery officials tell us at one point, 25,000 tickets were selling every minute because there was so much excitement surrounding this jackpot which is the second highest in u

file on friday. four strikeouts to the songs on wednesday reports the rules for an old crone and sit down on us the us continues its lcd on on such date for american soldiers were injured when that an mp's came into fire in the north of the country they were then to eventuate and the u s nationals in the same region a counter offensive from self saddam's military. the city of gold target it for days now the city's been controlled by rebels loyal to me much the former vice president neighboring uganda has already sent troops to south sudan and kenya is sending soldiers to counseling the u n peacekeepers in their efforts to secure all the campers help with the full support of the rcc into that. but then that's what. the in short the delegation that the weekend the government of sauce with don got me to pieces that make it to the top half of that mantra we have given the green light to this day his team when she knew was that affords. in order to be in pizza sauce with us meanwhile tens of thousands of

and really it out this one. any sufficiently put it in bali victory team so that the pto was one hundred and fifty nine members are working to break the play in cost and finalize a packet of global trade agreements. it's a meeting there will decide the very fate of the world trade organization. a hundred and fifty nine ministers have gathered here in bali for the nine national conference of the wto which i will try to revive the twelve year long strike made to negotiations from and all around. they will be working towards what they've been dumping the body package. it is basically a set of policies. and that they have deemed to be most agreeable by all the nations. taken from tax grab from the vast untill around here. i've just sort of the negotiations can move forward. it is divided into the broad cup victories the first is the agreement on least developed countries this is a negotiation to facilitate the integration of least developed countries into the world economy. this has been mostly agreed upon the secon

come on. >> that people don't like. and people are getting dropped. >> you're the one who said stop lying. >> it's a lie? you keep your boatalco. >> is that a lie? >> private market health insurance. >> so people are not going to the doctor. >> no. when they get their insurance, they won't lou their doctor? >> not any more than the current system in which year to year -- >> millions of people were not losing their insurance under the current system. by the hundreds of thousands. >> they were. every single year. >> we can do a whole tutorial about the system to go back to. nobody was happy with it. >> you obviously don't understand how the health insurance works. >> you're the one that promised that people would keep their health insurance and you promised that people would keep their doctor. >> so often employers have to change out their entire insurance policy. 37 million people who didn't have access before now do. millions like me on january 1st who had to worry that the other shoe dropping

good terms on this one?ten years, i don't know if you know that. i know the difference between kennington and kensington. stuart: yes, you do. >> i've been to both places and the thing that struck me about the whole issue, first you have to conjure the thought of what he said. stuart: yes. >> and there's a blank sheet of paper and this is the thought you come up with, you know, to broadcast. you'd expect that out of like a deranged wino spitting at buses. stuart: and fired, he wasn't, he resigned. >> yeah, where did the thought come from? i go back to old school and let him and todd palin sort it out and get on with our lives. stuart: john, repeat one more time how we can get some money to you? >> right, it's fund anything.com/american made. we'll take suggestions, too, of any companies you feel in your area that, you know, need some profiling because it's all about helping our neighbors. it's really, it's about helping america help america because if we don't buy american, also, your taxes go up. people don

as one immigrant described life on the border. i'm afraid to be here because of my kids because of all that happened. because i'm alone i'm afraid to be here but i have no other options. i have no one else. when it comes to the nation's on-again, off-again dance with immigration reform, there may finally be hopeful signals. in his year end press conference friday the president was bullish on prospects for reform. >> we can get p immigration reform done. we have a concept that has bipartisan support. lets see if we can break through the politics on this. >> senate majority leader harry reid had a bolder prediction. why wouldn't he is the question immigration advocates have been asking all year. but for once they may have real reason for hope as republican tom cole said, "we just saw a budget deal with progress that brought people together from both sides and different perspectives and i suspect that can be done on immigration as well." if republicans need an example how it can get done they need look no further than new jersey wher

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on planes.t is our question for today, would you pay more for a seat in the quiet section of an airplane? we'll have answers up at bottom. ashley: i will give you my tweet now. also ahead, jpmorgan getting socked with yet another fine. this one said to be over one billion dollars for ties, yep, you know it, bernie madoff. the question is, is the sec picking on jamie dimon's bank? tracy: hilton shares higher in the first day of trading. we'll see if the hotel stock is worth buying. if you heard of bit strips. check this one out. we have one of ashton. ashley: i'm one in the middle. trace to the right. that is ceo of the company to the far left. tracy: i look svelt. ashley: that is a good word. word for the day, svelte. thanks for joining us. time to look at stocks. they are down for the third straight day in a row. let's get down to the floor of the new york stock exchange. >> that is very funny. your guest looks uncomfortable during that interview. dow jones industrials down 92 points. nasdaq we

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no one on the train walk away on affected. >> this will be a trying thing. >> investigators will review data to recover from the scene. and the local mall was pushing seven or around a 30 mi. per hour curve when they left the track. investigators do not know how fast the train was going. >> we have the understand why this happened. this is to prevent this from happening again. they will be cooperating with this investigation. they want to know if anyone is involved with this accident and whether or not there is a lesson to be learned. >> safety is number one. >> authorities are investigating the cause of a freight train derailment in southern new mexico that killed three railroad employees. what caused saturday's derailment that led to the train locomotive plunging 40 feet down a ravine. there were no other passengers on the train and the eight cars being pulled by the locomotive remained on or near the tracks. >> a traveling medical technician who infected dozens of patients in multiple states with hepatitis c through tainted syringes is finding out how many decades he'll spend in a ne

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what we're doing is we're on, on, on, and we're really stressed out.e's a negative impact, unless we take a break, and this can be little breaks, but we have to take a break to recover. >> so, what happens? do we end up taking it out on the people around us, right, when we're irritable then or impatient? even young people who have all the energy in the world, at some point lose their energy. >> it's true. and the best thing that you really can do is you can work as a professional athlete as an example, right? so, you can sort of train and train and train and sprint and sprint, and then you get tired and you end up treating people like crap. so, instead of doing that, you should work in recovery and then you should -- and that's just the way to go. >> women, we're always trying hard. we feel like we have to do more. >> always letting somebody down. >> and be more, yeah. and i think sometimes there are things they say women fall into traps, we fall into, and one of them is, especially at work, we overexplain. i find myself doing this. >> yes. >> you're l

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the list goes on and on. enda, ending discrimination against lgbt community people in the workplace. there's so many items on the agenda that have the support of me peern people in large numbers. yesterday was the anniversary of newtown, pass the brady background bill. all these things are an agenda we have neglected up until now, we haven't had time for it of i guess they haven't been priorities for this congress but they are priorities for the american people. and for the democrats in congress. one reason to vote for this package even though you think it's meager and may not like all its priorities as the gentleman said is to at least have agreement on the budget that enables us to move forward for bigger fights that will improve policy, improve the lives of the american people, honor our responsibilities to them. but i urge our colleagues to vote for the budget but to vote against this rule because this rule says no. it says no to the congress. we are not even going to allow you to speak or vote on unemplo

the new cast on and on. i'm optimistic we can say this building blocks and younger were going to have to tackle them that was cheap but it's nice to me. the last remaining sticking points for pension reform dual citizenship and the introduction of a national minimum wage. away from berlin political parties in the social state of hesse and embark on an experiment of a different college the conservative cdu and green party began coalition talks after september's reach election. if they succeed it would be the first alliance between the two parties outside of germany cities the anti government protests in time in the days counting on monday tens of thousands of demonstrators take to the streets in the capsule on top and some occupied government buildings including the interior ministry. the mind the resignation of prime minister the roxy no walks what we've learned you can read about the significance that what's right. she really cares that hurdle in front of your whole soul and the love the conflict has been s

on the geary project you have a more full report on your desk on that project. we've been doing outreach we held the meeting in the richmond early er this month and we had a meeting on larkin street so please come on down to the main library and learn about the staff recommended preferred alternatives that we're talking about with mta and give us your input please. the japan town will also have an event in january to discuss the options particularly with a focus on the western edition area we continue to do great outreach on the rapid transit project so the citizen's advisory committee has 8 members appointed by the transportation authority. so the 19th avenue and balboa projects -- we'll be bringing to a final meeting on january 23 so please check our website for that. the potrero hill project also kicked off and we had more than 40 resident in attend ance at that meeting and possibly exploring the idea of a community as shuttle. we've got financial modelling happening in the treasure island study. an exciting study . already great work happening there. so we g

this one is by far the one that people have been spreading the most no one is boring heating another person because of the color his skin and done said or they will record his background or his religion blind dates and if they can learn to hate they can be taught to love for love comes more naturally to human heart than its opposite. now i add be careful because there are also sad to say to me as a catch quotes are going round at slate of this about saturn at first i cannot seem to scroll down and tell you what it is at it this fake tree in this fake wood if you see it now that it's not for mandela he did not say i didn't see this fear is not that we are inadequate our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. stunning. a man on a sunday morning cheney know you know that seven films have been made about nelson mandela about his life serving in the nineteen eighties with the discount mandela where danny glover played the hand but he also became part of the national popular culture through this song which was that called free nelson mandela and it came out in ninety four it

put me deeper on the next one. and he looked at me like, this guy is crazy or something. >> one year earlier, garrett towed his girlfriend, nicole, into another big one. in that very same spot. that moment was also caught on camera in november 2010. >> he said, you know, i don't know if you're going to get a wave. i'm just going to pull you up on the board. we're going to drive around. feel the board. make sure you feel comfortable. >> and as soon as she gets up, this biggest as they come, you know, it was like a 20-foot wave. not too big, but still. >> the second he pulls me up, it was literally maybe less than a second, that i'm standing up, and this wave just pops out of nowhere. and he goes, go! and i said, are you sure? and i like -- i hesitated. so if i would have maybe gone at that point, i would have been able to come down on my own. since i hesitated, it was kind of like a slingshot. >> she lets go of the rope. she comes flying down, and right at the bottom she fell off the board and she's skipping like a

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on one second. we have got news on jobs numbers. jobless claims out there is 379,000.spike up from what we saw. a spike up from what economists had expected. three to 36,000. i know mike has got more on jobs claims numbers. life this is particularly bad news. jobless claim is the highest since march. the fed said yesterday the labor market was getting better. this means it is the holiday season. it is very hard to estimate the seasonal effects on the claims numbers. the labor department itself came out and said, do not pay attention to the week to week numbers. look at this four-week moving average. it is not nearly as bad as week to week numbers. there is a specific number we want to start paying attention to. , they havehe people extended benefits because they cannot find a job. be kicked off the rolls starting in january. it will be a hard time for 1.2 million people. we will keep an eye on the number as we get closer to the end of the year. >> thank you. i know jobs is something you have been focused on. we have gone to washington. >> i am a little bit more optimis

your votes on line, tonight, your choice for number one.w for the ridiculist, and tonight i want to introduce you to the song stylings of a band called man-man. they just released a new album. there is one song on the new record in particular called "end boss." take a listen and i'll be with you in a minute. ♪ ♪ ♪ so you're getting the lyrics here, a wolf is sneaking up on a sleeping baby at night. but you may think this is just typical indy rock imagery, but you're wrong. the song is not about any wolf it is like so much of the art around us, it is inspired by wolf blitzer. oh, yes, we with hear some more, can we? ♪ ♪ ♪ >> hang on, did wolf blitzer just drink vodka and eat the baby? it sounds like wolf ate the baby in the barrio and ate a churro as well. we asked the front man for the real story, he said the basic story was about a wolf that eats a baby. but that seems a bit passe, so he thought it would be more interesting to reimagine the wolf being wolf blitzer sneaking into houses and devouring children. sneaking through the windows, s

one man was on the ground after being hit in the head.there was gunfire after people argued about their place in line. >>> on a lighter note, santa made an appearance in oakland this week and made a lot of children very happy santa and his sidekick handed out hundreds of gifts. the two started this toy drive five years ago creating a website. people can send in their donations. >> my friends and family and people just want to give and don't really know how sometimes, so everyone just keeps giving us more and more every year. >> santa say they were able to pass out 400 gifts this holiday season. >>> beyonca made christmas dreams come true. >> for everyone in the store right now, the first $50 of your holiday gifts are on me [cheers and applause] >> the popular singer stopped at a wal-mart store in massachusetts on her way to a show in boston. besides surprising shoppers with a $50 gift, she also did shopping for her daughter. there were 750 people in the store at the time. >>> the count down at the stick. the final scheduled 49er game ever

currency meanwhile fell against the greenback and closed at one thousand sixty one point two one the lyrics mainly attributed the fall of the local currency to the rising value of the dollar. eta at the news. moving out to the nationwide railway strike that rumbled into its twelfth day on friday the union workers in the state run korea railroad corporation remained far apart on the copper mines as the government is forging ahead with the plan and got the strike rolling in the first place. tim gill reports. thousands of unionized railway workers remained on strike friday in protest of the government's move to set up the new mill operators that would run the uk takes blog train from his thoughts on this hole which they claim is the first of twelve privatizing the korea railroad corporation. the transport ministry said friday he will issue a licence for the new rail service operator next week. back tracking slightly from an earlier plan to issue the license today. at the national assembly on friday finance ministry hundreds of greek underrated the setting of the coral subsidiary unit wa

if anything we want to give a mouse to see what's going on in real time on one of romania's tortoise. so the most artistic of the month and some of the fall release a new building and equipment are many and border police wants to share that it's almost comical the other members of the jenin area man who is in those boxes. these exercises repeatedly performed in front of the cameras. what to tackle the migrants attempting and treat drug smuggling corridor is to tax the train to any situation they may one day face of the boat. all in the name of presenting you it's possible for you. romanians that they could also benefit from this end isn't that the crest of december onwards. when you immigration controls are due to expire. the coolest and opposition from west in your description the crumbs people in romania into the new board to the east system and the country's credibility. often being arrested illegal immigrants and all in one of the asylum seeker detention centers opened the borders innovation high schools from africa and asia are attracted to a country which could want to give them

party control, on the one hand, lean limited government and on the other, government play essential roles in society. are we seeing the emergence of two americas? >> yes, and we have seen this for one side. a student asked me if this is the most divided we have been as a country. i said, "we had a still war", this is the most divided we've been since the civil war, which is sad and tragic. you have more states like california, where i am now, which doesn't have a single elected state-wide republican, and texas, which doesn't have a single state-wide elected democrat. states are moving in those directions. >> the ideological device seems to grow. fewer republicans believe in evolution right now than in 2009. more democrats believe in serious evolution. will weighbridge a gap and find a happy middle ground or are we completely apart. >> political bases are running to their bases. quite frankly, i don't think it's so bad. if you live in texas, there's a reason you live there. you support elected officials there. i would hope there would be compromise. you used to see republic working t

while by a labor queues and tighten their grip on second place with a crunch one nil victory at third place first here dormant or now ten points of top spot sunk young men netted the winner after twenty minutes both sides had a man sent up in the last ten minutes but sammy who pre-assigned hong kong to win. now moving on to ice hockey work a h l e discuss saw their six game winning run come to an end after being defeated not just by bitter rivals but also the moscow traffic heavy congestion on the capital's roads forced the powerhouse some pieces big side to abandon their luxury coach for the public metro and after the visitors had to go underground the hosts seize the initiative above it on the ice we drove through the first period alex a models of finished off some nice passing moves with a pinpoint rich shot one will. just go if that's good because his brilliance between the pipes denying all twenty eight shots for his third shutout of the campaign and alexander the love wrapped away to nothing when with an empty netter. with local stone minds on three single league leaders and it

is there any public comment on those items on the consent calendar. okay be smooenz >> commissioner borden. commissioner antonini. commissioner sugaya >> and president fong. >> so moved, commissioners, that motion passes unanimously 6 to zero and mrs. you under commission matters of the draft minutes for september 5, 2013. >> any public comment on this item? on draft minutes or proposed draft minutes so moved, commissioners. >> i'll move to approve the minutes. on that motion commissions to adapt the draft minutes commissioner antonini. commissioner borden. commissioner moore. commissioner sugaya. commissioner wu. and president fong >> so moved, commissioners, that motion passes 6 to gore and places you under the comments and questions. >> commissioner antonini. >> yeah. the first item is i am scheduled to increase go a surgical procure on the 16 and won't be in attendance and there's a chance i may not be here on the 23rd and it's hard to change the scheduling of that procu procure so to gossiping give you accurate notice for the 23rd and possibly th

that was the weather on the ones.of course the biggest weather news is from the grey patch where china should be. >> take a look at. this you can't see much. it's shanghai, china. >> hundreds of flights were canceled or delayed. schools closed, residents urged to stay in doors and stabgt raoez stop production. >> air quality levels reach 40 times the safe lift recommended by the world health coring anyization. >> stephen: folks you can see the great wall of china from space but now you can't see the great wall of china from china. in response chinese authorities have taken drastic actions. shanghai announced the pollution standards would loosen to lessen the number of aerts being issued. no, it works. it worked. it's like setting your house on fire then taking the batteries out of the smoke detector so it doesn't wake you up. that's why i'm giving a rare tip of the hat to the chinese government. they went even farther, folks. last week china's government news agency informed the chinese people that smog is actually go

come on.ondition think of anything more decadent except maybe murdering a tree and dressing it up like a whore. no wonder, nond withouter, folks, no wonder "time" magazine called the cards maddeningly tone deaf and ask could you pick a more elitist sport? yes, elitist, ten sis just polo without a horse that can be played in a public park. jamie die upon forgot the golden rule of 1 percenters, the 99ers need to previous your money has made you miserable. his christmas card should have been him weeping alone on a pile of money. folks, this is why, this is why, i didn't mail out my christmas card this year. it's a picture of me water-skiing through the kitchen hi built off of my two closets. folks, i tell you, they criticize but i need that kevin. the sherpas who guide me to my sandal shelf are hungry. so as much as i hate to do it, shame on you jamie dimon. and news media, you keep holding the bankers accountable for insensitive christmas cards because i hope we can all agree, that's the real cr

we kick off the week on monday with the latest data on u.s.ersonal spending which analysts say likely accelerated. on tuesday, the latest data on new home sales and durable goods orders which were expected to climb. on thursday, we get initial jobless claims. all exchanges will be closed wednesday to observe the christmas holiday. washington will also be scaled down throughout the week. congress in recess and the supreme court on official break. president obama will also be out of town for the holiday. he gave an optimistic outlook on the economy in the new year. pressnal press on 7 -- conference of the year before heading on vacation. >> .14 can be a breakthrough year for america. outlined in detail earlier this month, we know there is a lot more we have to do to restore opportunity and broad- based growth for every american. that is going to require some action. >> since winning the white house in 2008, the first family has vacationed in the president's native hawaii which is where he will be this week. -- the airnt and his force flies in ab

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one of the most moving ones is by his former teammate who wrote, in portuguese, on his social media site, "i'm praying for you mama my brother." -- "i'm praying for you, my brother." another commentor people have been paying special attention to is sebastian vettel, the reigning world champion. he is sort of the godchild of schumacher. that is of course very moving as well. it has been people all over the world asked germans, non- germans, sports figures, nonsports figures -- it has been people all over the world -- germans, non-germans, sports figures, nonsports figures. >> he has recovered from accidents before. >> he broke his leg once while he was a formula one driver. a few years ago, he crashed on a motorcycle and suffered fairly severe injuries to his back and his neck. he has come back from that before. most people have this clichÉ of these formula one drivers. these guys are athletes. hopefully, his excellent physical condition will help them to recover -- helped him to recover. >> he recently made a comeback. it was not the success he was hoping for. >> no. it was kind of a las

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sees margaret howell is following events on the scene for us and you can also get regular updates on her twitter she says locals in the struggling to come to terms with the tragedies while keeping an eye on the investigation to follow and on twitter for the names. to be in the. meanwhile russia's president has met with top government officials and ordered security to be put on high alert following the bombings. the latest tightening the of the security measures across the entire country that was one of the results of the numerous meetings during which the russian president has conducted throughout monday that particular result was the outcome of his meeting with a national and to terrorist community prior to that president putin has met with the heads of the securities of the federal security service and ministry of the interior who have updated him on the information on the situation in the volgograd region and on the nearby regions as well coming out of that meeting the head of the federal security service jetted off to volgograd to oversee the situation there personally he has alr

stuart: no one appears on this program with a buzz on. what will you do if they raise taxes?ng sales taxes. they want to impose tobacco silo taxes which will jack up your costs enormously. >> some are 5% which would not hurt much. cost savings is so great on electronic cigarettes that a slight tax will put us at a lower price in cigarettes. stuart: this past year, 2013, roughly $2 billion industry in the united states. does that square with your figures? you don't think if there is this kind of regulation, and banning them from public spaces and taxing them heavily you don't think that will interrupt the growth of your industry? >> it hasn't hurt the sales of regular cigarettes so far. the only thing that stopppd the sales are electronic cigarettes. stuart: you are fighting this all the way. >> it is the disappointing news by the city council, it is premature. stuart: are you paying politicians? >> no. don: why not? everybody else does? >> we have the science on our side and once the learning curve has passed people will realize like smokers using the product is the net benef

what on earth is happening? how on earth is this where they wind up? i get sacrifices have to be made, we all get that. how is this one of them? we'll talk about it a little later when we get into coburn's report on the wasteful spending in washington and the priorities of the people who work inside the beltway. >>> less than 24 hours ago we reported to you a major warning by a federal judge. hello, here, i'm back. a major warning by a federal judge, a george w. bush appointee, that the nsa data collection program will likely be ruled unconstitutional. he sees major problems with this. he's stayed his ruling pending appeal. but the president meantime today met behind closed doors with some of the very same people who collect that data for the nsa, including google executive chairman eric schmidt. our digital editor, the internet companies have a different role but they are working to some extent with the nsa when compelled to do so to gather data, and they say it's to catch bad guys and we're not spying on good guys and regular american citizens, but t

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one guy. it will depend on all of us working together. and my office is ready, willing and eager to engage both parties in having conversation about how we can simplify the tax code make it fair make it work to create more jobs and do right by middle class americans. >> reporter: thank you, mr. president. how do you say it in hawaii may lay ka mele kaliki maha. >> i would like to ask your reaction to the nonpartisan truth-telling group that when they said the lie of the year is your statement, that if you like your health care plan, you could keep it. related to the health care problems we've seen over the last year the fallout from that seems to be making democrats, particularly in the senate a little rambunctious and independent of you, which is evidenced most clearly in the debate over iran sanctions. it looks like senate majority leader harry reid has expedited consideration of iran sanctions bill for january, even as your administration and you have been trying to get them to lay off sanc

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only on our t.v. . hello and welcome to technology updates on today's show christmas comes early for moscow's young innovators. and novel animation up brings films to the big screen. a moscow state university gives a whole new meaning to wearable technology but first new year may still be a couple of days off but they've already been plenty of festivities this month. on something a lot of. the take no spark in nano technology sensor was officially opened in the town of troy just south of moscow. aims to become a launch pad for high tech startups by bringing together all the facilities and know how to develop and produce innovative goods all into one roof while the town's strong research base made it the natural choice of location the pog received a large investment from ross nano and the company's chairman was there to make sure the money had been put to good use becky about twenty five startups should already be created this year there are twenty five startups alone in the year the center was set up th

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