The last 25 years have brought us the smartphone, streaming video, and Elon Musk. Not to mention that AI and whatever it has in store. Our colleague Caroline Hyde guides us on our journey in tech. -Y2K, the millennium bug, the accident that never happened. We suddenly had this fear that as the celebration moved from 99 to 00, computer systems wouldn't work, but hundreds of millions of dollars were spent putting plans in place. -There will be some Y2K glitches somewhere. -We went from wired to wireless i ...

The first quarter of the new century brought us a great financial crisis, a global pandemic and several revolutions in the ways markets coped with it all. Our colleague Romaine Bostick gives us highlights and lowlights. -How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values.-You had a market that hit a peak in early 2000. It proceeded to drop by about 30 percent in the span of just a few months. -The big question is hard versus soft landing at this point.My expectation is the fundament ...

You've stressed the importance of profitability, also a resilient and scalable business. Talk to us about what you have achieved this year and what your path to profitability looks like. So in the last couple of months, this year, actually we shifted our focus to to be to think about how do we become more sustainable as a company.How do we get better value in economics. How do we get better capital allocation. And across all of our segments, enterprises, SMBs and consumer we have basically gone very, very d ...

Okay. What is a bubble. A bubble occurs when there's an enormous amount of increase in wealth relative to money.It's it's important to understand the difference between wealth and money. Wealth is easy to create. Like now um and in other times, what you do is that let's say you raise uh $50 million for a billion dollar company.then you're a billionaire and the um company's worth a billion dollars, but nobody's really paid anything like that. And so wealth is something that uh rises, but you haven't material ...

As we continue our review of the first quarter of the 21st century, we turn to one country that has been a story, well, really many stories in and of itself. Our colleague Enda Curran takes us through China's remarkable transformation. [Applause] -China joining the WTO in 2001 was probably one of the most consequential decisions, not just for China's economy, but for the world economy.-The WTO agreement will move China in the right direction. -So companies could shift there and both tap into the Chinese mar ...

It's been an especially eventful 25 years, from Y2K to the great financial crisis to the pandemic, giving us a lot to adjust to and learn from, starting with profound changes in the economy. Our colleague Michael McKee starts us with an economic overview. -We are fortunate to be alive at this moment in history.-Unemployment was low. The economy was booming. -Never before has our nation enjoyed at once so much prosperity and social progress with so little internal crisis.-Trees don't grow to the sky, and, at ...

On this edition of Next Africa, the continent's booming tech ecosystem, with the rise of several unicorns in recent years, the startup community is finding its feet. Fintech leads the charge with two IPOs on the continent for the first time in more than five years, signaling growing confidence in the scalability of African tech. We speak with AI powered firm Optasia on its expansion push and with unicorn Flutterwave on how it's positioning for growth.Plus, bridging the digital divide, from the startup helpi ...

Do they have purview over redactions, professor. Because we're going through a lot of pages right now, and in some cases, they're completely blacked out. >> So, the act that was passed by Congress gives the Department of Justice the authority to withhold information to redact for very limited bases.Um, but they do include um to protect the privacy interests of the survivors. Importantly, the act also requires the Department of Justice to provide a justification for all the redactions within 15 days after th ...

What would you begin with as you try to dissect these documents. Well, I you know, it's hard to know where to start exactly. I'd be interested to see how they are categorizing the material as they upload it to the website.And already Mr. . Blank has signaled in his letter that there is a great deal of information that is and has not yet been provided. There was something in his letter that also caught my eye.In particular, he said that the department was going to be withholding material based on various com ...

Jonathan, you must put up a big fight for this. You go all the way back to what it was at 2018 or so. That first lawsuit filed over what was then a pay plan of like, you know, a couple of hundred billion dollars.Now it's a pay plan of potentially $1,000,000,000,000 here. Does this kind of clear the deck for Tesla and more importantly, for Elon Musk to just kind of go forward now. You know, it's absolutely wild and it's totally unclear to me initially what this means in light of the new pay package.But it ju ...