statements are likely to be welcomed by the car industry the further damage to their image is done v.w. keen to prove its cleaned up its act has already suspended a top executive who knew about the experiment. let's take a look at some results now we've seen deutsche earnings they didn't go down well with investors it shares lost over six percent at the frankfurt stock exchange google parent company alfabet also blaming the u.s. tax reforms for its poor performance a quarterly net loss there of three billion dollars but trade us gave the green light to apple and amazon's record profits. it's all signals go for the titans of the new economy retailer amazon posted its first billion dollar profit that's a remarkable change for a company that's a shoot profits until now reinvesting all its income into new high tech ventures like a supermarket without cash registers. for the company's new headquarters in seattle founder jeff bezos said the alexa voice assistant had well exceeded expectations. ok jeff. meanwhile google parent alphabet said its profits would have been up but it chose to pay a one t