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Speaker 3: Big Tech earnings, Microsoft rallying three and a half percent

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Speaker 3: in the aftermarket.

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Speaker 2: You've got Meta under pressure.

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Speaker 3: Ed Ludlow is host of Bloomberg Tech on Bloomberg Television

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Speaker 3: eleven am, Wall Street Time Monday through Friday.

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Speaker 2: Ed, pick where you want to start.

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Speaker 4: True Start on Microsoft. I feel like it's probably the

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Speaker 4: most tangible, right, So everything is in the cloud growth

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Speaker 4: better than expectations. And you know, the math was really

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Speaker 4: simple going into this. They've just closed the book on

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Speaker 4: their fiscal financial year, and the question still remains when

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Speaker 4: we get to the call, what does Microsoft tell us

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Speaker 4: about the capital expenditure growth into next year? Because the

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Speaker 4: street sees CAPEX growing beyond fifty percent. Top line growth

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Speaker 4: on Azure is forty three percent, give or take XTAC.

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Speaker 4: All the street really wants to see is that pace

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Speaker 4: of growth being near to CAPEX growth. Right, It's a

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Speaker 4: really simple equation. But going back to alphabet, which is

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Speaker 4: highly analogous, there's so much commentary here from Microsoft about

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Speaker 4: traction with copilot, like more data points that are just easy,

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Speaker 4: tangible to understand about how Microsoft's AI efforts are going, right,

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Speaker 4: And then it's that's the stock reflecting that and after ours.

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Speaker 1: Is the thirty million paid seats a big deal for

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Speaker 4: Yes, because it's versus twenty million at the end of March.

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Speaker 4: Exactly what I'm pointing to the other one is, I

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Speaker 4: annualized revenue. You know, remember Amazon went to that figure

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Speaker 4: giving newer data points which take us beyond the simple

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Speaker 3: Which you kind of want to get right when a

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Speaker 3: That the more information, the more transparency, that's helpful big time.

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Speaker 5: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: I mean again, from the press release alone, Microsoft's not

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Speaker 4: saying anything about fiscal year twenty seven capex. Yeah, so

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Speaker 4: that there's this period of time where everyone's like, okay, reading,

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Speaker 4: call everything could change. That is the jeopardy of big

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Speaker 1: Well, let's do a little bit with meta platforms and

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Speaker 1: then we'll get back to some of these other names.

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Speaker 1: Here's a Meta shares a Meta down about six point

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Speaker 1: three percent. Let's go ahead and say six percent. Some

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Speaker 1: numbers here. Third quarter revenue sixty one to sixty four billion,

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Speaker 1: the estimus for sixty three point one seven billion. Second

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Speaker 1: quarter revenue came in above estimate. Second quarter EPs came

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Speaker 4: It's so hard? I mean, revenues up twenty eight percent

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Speaker 4: ahead of expectations, right, ad impressions have improved, Pricing has improved.

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Speaker 4: Meta's core business. It's bread and butter is still advertising.

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Speaker 4: The story was how has AI made that better? More monetizable?

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Speaker 5: Right, it is?

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Speaker 3: Right right, And I want to just throw one other

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Speaker 3: One thing traders might be reacting to second quarter operating

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Speaker 3: deep seeing Bloomberg Intelligence Global ahead of Technology Research making

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Speaker 3: his way from TV into our radio studio we're talking

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Speaker 3: about Meta, what investors don't like it.

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Speaker 5: I mean, look, there wasn't much of an upside when

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Speaker 5: Built API usage by enterprises, and that's what they are

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Speaker 1: I mean silly question, but does Meta actually have an

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Speaker 5: well Ed, Come on back in here. What do you

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Speaker 5: think you're going through all of these releases right now?

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Speaker 5: You point out that Mark Zuckerberg what mandep was referring

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Speaker 1: What are those opportunities?

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Speaker 4: So Bloomberg's reported that Meta has explored a literal cloud

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Speaker 3: I want to ask both of you because here we

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Speaker 1: But can't they make up for that with the investments

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Speaker 5: What the ad pricing growth was it was around fourteen percent,

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Speaker 2: What I don't know.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I think, go go ahead.

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Speaker 5: I mean, the one thing I had in mind before

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Speaker 1: Some context to the word discipline now, Carol, discipline for

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Speaker 2: I mean, is it still the right move for Meta?

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Speaker 4: I mean, I feel like, just going off past action

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Speaker 4: And I'll just see a world in which we get

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Speaker 4: You know, you have labor and construction inflation, materials inflation.

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Speaker 3: All right, So we're tracking Meta and Microsoft here in

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Speaker 2: So just following earnings.

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Speaker 3: If I go on over to Meta, it is still

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Speaker 2: And then we have Armholding.

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Speaker 1: We have arm Holding says, well, I want to go

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Speaker 1: to Qualcom real quick to Ed because Ed is interviewing

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Speaker 3: Hey, So Quaal come down about four point three percent

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Speaker 3: Mandy've come on back in anything in terms of ARM

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Speaker 5: I mean just exposures. I think Armed, because of the

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Speaker 5: I mean they are talking about a twenty twenty nine

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Speaker 5: But in the near term this business is declining. The

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Speaker 3: Impact all right through on ARM noting royalties from those

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Speaker 3: and the appetite our new chip lineup is greater than anticipated.

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Speaker 3: This is coming from the company's CEO Armholdings