nfl yahoo! streaming fail. still buffers and freezes, leave football to the networks was one , comment. >> it is different when comcast laser fiber to your house. the internet is not structured like that. you are dealing with lots of different partners. increasingly, technology is improving and the experience is now better with four k possible over the internet. emily: let's talk about the future of yahoo!. this is a big when broadly for them. i think we can say that. yahoo! has been so dominated by the alibaba spinoff. once that is gone, tim, as a person who has covered yahoo! since the early 1990's, before yahoo! existed, what does yahoo! become? what is left after alibaba is gone? >> a lot for any company and their position depends on their boldness. are they willing to reinvent themselves? emily: you see that happening? >> i think there are opportunities. take the streaming example. i made the example earlier about uber reinventing the taxicab business. what would it take -- there are things you can do with

coming up, yahoo! says its first ever live stream of an nfl game was a great success. how many people actually tuned in. we dig into the numbers next. ♪ emily: new problems for blood testing firm theranos. walgreens has decided to hold off on opening more testing centers. it made the decision after reports worsening the technology. businessre biggest partner. walgreen officials met with executives, including the founder, late last week. walgreen's now plans to wait until questions are resolved before continuing with its expansion plans. yahoo! and first live streaming game of nfl game ever. 15.2 million tuned in to watch the game on sunday. yahoo! says over 15 million unique viewers watched the game online. bloomberg crunched the numbers and found that only an average of 2.4 million viewers tuned in any given minute of the three-hour game. by comparison, sunday night football averages 24.1 million viewers according to nielsen data. ceo of a videohe streaming company. tim o'reilly of o'reilly media. tim, why is it taking so long for the nfl to find a partner to stream

yahoo! live streaming the first nfl game ever. microsoft throws down the gauntlet, opening its first retail store. first, to our lead. another wild week of earnings. kicking things off, third-quarter results from iac. best-known for owning tinder. way ahead of estimates, $.78 per share. it is extending an ad deal with google that would generate $4 billion in revenue. when it comes to earnings, tomorrow is one of the biggest days of the quarter. first up is alibaba. investors watching for signs of growth as performance is so closely tied with the chinese economy. the stock has been pummeled since its november ipo, but has seen some recovery. some wonder if the worst is over. later, twitter and apple. apple, how well the iphone 6 is doing. apple shares taking a hit today after a supplier posted weak sales. joining me from new york and o'reilly herend in the studio. you have followed all these companies for so many years. what are you going to be watching tomorrow. we know this is an iphone company. what are we expecting? >> the bigg