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Prime Day, Ad Battles, and Glow-In-The-Dark Cats

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🗓️ 11 July 2017

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

How are YOU celebrating Amazon Prime Day? Aaron Bush analyzes Amazon’s push to international markets and the drive to sell more Echo devices. North America’s newspapers are banding together to take on Facebook and Google over digital advertising. Plus, what in the world is CRISPR and why should investors pay attention?

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0:00.0

It's Tuesday, July 11th.

0:03.2

Welcome to Market.

0:04.4

I'm Chris Hill joining me in studio today

0:06.0

for Motley Fool rule breakers, Aaron Bush.

0:09.2

Happy Prime Day.

0:10.1

Happy Prime Day.

0:11.2

I saw on Twitter that it's an actual Prime Number Day.

0:16.0

So it's 07-11-2017.

0:19.9

Sounds right.

0:21.1

So I don't know if, uh if I like to think that somewhere Jeff Bessos knew that.

0:27.6

Part of his master plan. He seen I didn't I wasn't even chuck it up to a master play it. He just seems geeky enough that he's excited

0:35.6

that on Amazon Prime Day it is actually a Prime Number. And we're going to talk about Prime Day.

0:41.4

We're also going to get into the looming battle

0:44.9

between Google and Facebook

0:46.7

and what appears to be every newspaper

0:49.3

in the United States of America.

0:51.2

And we're going to talk about CRISPR and the first thing we'll do with

0:54.0

CRISPR is explained what in God's name is CRISPR. Some of you may already

0:57.5

know I was completely in the dark on this but let's start with Prime Day. This is

1:02.3

dominating the business media today because this started two years ago

1:07.0

on Amazon's 20th anniversary as a company.

1:13.0

You and I were talking yesterday and I confess to you that even as an Amazon shareholder, when

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