>> from pier three in san francisco, welcome to the best focusomberg wes, what we on technology and the future of business. every week, we bring you the the of west to round up best of our interviews with technology and media companies will stop at such as bigger butens apple is working on, a new ipad as they are trying to get customers excited about

tablets again. advertising -- started manufacturing just in time for the critical season. all of this according to people familiar with the matter. it's a move to boost the ipad business, it's second largest after the iphone. to 13.3 million, down 9% year-over-year. we started asking what apple could do to get customers excited about the ipad again. is probably not going to be much different than the existing ipad will stop it could add a less flair screen. when are they going to make it eager ipad? something that is a more pro-version. i would not expect that this fall.

, i thinkarlier comment the ipad is the troubled child here. see the changes being enough to get the business kick started. there are some other things that could be going on but one of the focuses they will be eyeing. >> what about the new iphone? couldn't they cannibalize sales even more? big headwind a face. it has been down 3% year-over-year. that has been a problem. there will be cannibalization from the tablet and that's a good thing for apple. higher gross margins, more revenue -- the best thing that can happen is for apple to

catalyze -- cannibalize their ipad sales with an iphone. >> there are reports today that apple is speaking with hospitals about integrating features into the health get. it may be a feature of an iwatch that comes out this fall. what is your reaction to these reports? >> we know health get him home kit are to lab forms to get third parties to develop on to get your ipad and phone to do different things in a few years. ass an important framework to how we are going to think about apple devices. i would not expect any big game changes but if you put the home and health get along with what has happened to the announcement with enterprise and you can see how the company can create new uses of technology. i think they are doing all the right to offend investors will be satisfied with the updates to

the iphone and watch in the near-term. longer-term, those relationships should yield under units in the simple take away is numbers should be inching up here. as you hear more about what is in the high line, we know there's an incredible pipeline. do you believe it now you have some clues about what is coming? piecedave gone back and together all the things we are talking about. if you are checking the box for the greatest roadmap or greatest product releases, this will be close to it. as far as a number of things that will happen, it's going to be the biggest thing in the -- in 25 years. the iphone transform the company

and all of these combined will not transform apple like the iphone did. if you look at it in terms of quantity of announcement, if you look in the substance, and definitely a positive. >> how confident are you that a iwatch is coming and coming this year? >> i would say an 85% chance it happens this fall. asia's still planned in and i think the only reason why this doesn't happen is they kill it at the 11th hour which is highly unlikely. up next, buzz feed is the link some serious buzz about itself. plan to do what they with the $50 million it just raised from andreessen horowitz, next.

>> welcome back to the best of bloomberg west. i'm emily chang. buzz feed, the website popular for list and news get a funding boost to help it grow. here are the top five things you need to know about the deal -- they are getting $50 million in series e funding from andreessen horowitz with partner chris dixon joining the board. the valuation is a reported $850 million and it has raised just over $96 million. but they will use the money to convert the division into buzz feed motion pictures that will produce everything from short clips to movies stop it will let buzz feed expensive india, mexico, germany and japan. 10z feed is among the top most visited sites with 150 million average monthly viewers

compared to 31,000,004 the "new york times" website all stop i started by asking if they think is feed can become a giant 80 a company. is a giant media company, just not the kind you and i might most like. listening to your list of the ,op five things we should know this is the joke -- so many of the attractions that they hacked our attention. they get to people, find out what is appealing and 10 array traffic. that is a business, whether it means anything bigger than what it looks like, it's just really hard to see right now. lots of companies look like toys in their early growth days. taking it to something more

profitable will be difficult. i struggle to figure out how that works. you have had so many tech titans investing in new media. site that hedia promises will be deferred from anything ever seen before. mark andreessen has been bullish on new media and herbalism, recently tweeting him more a mistake about the future of news than almost anyone i know. it will grow 10 times to a hundred times. do you agree with that? >> we are living examples going to this transformation. i just don't think it's going to look anything like what it looks like. whether bloomberg -- whether it's next bloomberg or new york times -- we are creating an entirely different

form of media and it's not going to look anything like the old media. one of the pitches they made was that it exemplifies the full stack investing model, the notion that the whole industry needs to be reengineered from top to bottom in the old suppliers will not be there anymore. somehow it will turn into something we are familiar with this completely wrong. studio, thee in the founder of his own news site -- you have lived the rise of insiders. companies areese getting traffic, can they be operable question mark >> absolutely. if you look at buzz feed, they are profitable according to the article. that one was a surprise.

essentially you have to stop looking at these companies as news companies as more -- and more as attention companies. if you have the attention, you business. advertisers want to go there and you can sell them other things, music, movies, e-books or whatever. i think buzz feed is in a good big partto capture a of the media market because some of the older guys are just doing the same old same old. they are that and they've done a good job going blog to a social media company. they are different and what my company does is different from what is feed is. businessdoing the same

, but not in the same industry. >> how profitable can they be? you and i have talked about the value of clicks. one kind of user is more valuable than another kind. 75% of buzz feed traffic is coming from social media. is that dangerous? are they overly reliant on social media? fax that's the risk every media company runs. google andliant on google changes their mind on things and it went south ready have interest you in a tumbler and so forth. less compared to the previous iteration. >> that's the weakest criticism we can make. the costs are minimal compared

to a traditional organization. establishing euros -- a can put together a list from anywhere. their costs are much lower than traditional media companies. the algorithms change and the traffic shifts dramatically and that is what they have to engineer against. actually looking at the reporting in ukraine when the malaysian plane went down. they're working on longform print journalism. are they having companies like the new york times a run for their money? i think they are looking at a formodel, creating content a whole new generation of viewers. entertained.to be

we have this holier than now notion. is abuzz feed has done good example and a sensibly to butine to do this story there is value to that. businessity of their is going to come from being entertainment oriented. >> what about major motion pictures? he'sdon't like it, but smarter than i am so maybe they figured something out. graveyard is much longer than demand. look at elevation partners. specifically around building content product -- the content structure is so broken and it's difficult to see how it is a

profitable venture over profitableith economics as well. i understand how it wrote in an tv is beating up on a but that does not have an incentive for creating a movie investment vehicle. it seems like nobody who been able to crack the real value. you can just click on it and look at it quickly. >> i think u2 has done a good job at making money off video and so is netflix. even -- either you do it like the way youtube has or the netflix model where you programming.style nobody wants to watch a two-hour movie, but you can watch two or three episodes of television in

a row and as for the opportunity is. i think the challenge for buzz feed is don't get overly ambitious and instead focus on what they have done and do it at her and smarter and faster. balance fora good them to find, so let's see how it goes. a badt think it's such investment. >> after fleeing the league and returning to the u.s. him a john mcafee is back in the tech game with a focus on protecting internet privacy. he will join us, next.

>> welcome back. i'm emily chang. john mcafee made his name creating early antivirus software will stop that years later he made headlines again after fleeing belize where authorities wanted to question him as a person of interest in the murder of his neighbor. now he is back in the tech game with a company that builds products to protect personal data. he recently spoke about this at the devcon hacker conference in las vegas. anpoke with him him undisclosed location and started by asking what exactly he means by that. >> google makes its money and so does facebook and almost every online company by collecting information. if it did not collect information, it would go broke. the information it collects is where are you, what are you buying, what do you like, what do you dislike and it is an

intrusive system that has invaded every part of our lives will stop not just google. its most of the free app shoot download and you get permissions like you can turn the camera on, listen to you, send messages and read your e-mails. freedomsnishing the and privacy we have given up willingly. google needs to have another paradigm for making money because this cannot continue. you say google's not the only company. companies would you point out? >> facebook would be number two but google is by far the front ofner in the invasion privacy for the average citizen. it's shocking how much google knows about you. google would have you believe if you have nothing to hide, then

why would you care? i have to take issue with that. privacy is an important right all humans have. there are some people who may be having affairs. i have that -- i hear that happens. some people call in -- we all have been sent privacy's that allow us to lead a tolerable existence. if these things are taken away, if we are practicing an alien religion in the baptist belt, we're going to have a hard time if we can't keep that to ourselves. >> one of the things you say you have done is gotten rid of your smart phone. what is that like? i used to change phones every week anyway. done --est thing i have and this is why i went to devcon -- i wanted to announce my new

it's a way to give power back to the little man. it is ostensibly a complaint site are you complain about something. i was audited unjustly by the irs, which you can just submit a can point, you've got to submit a solution. go into the pie and people read them, they may add their own solution and these are then voted on. out of way to get anger the negative arena and then into the positive arena. perlready have 100,000 uses day filing complaints -- whether i got a working ticket unjustly, is eating ticket -- exxon is dumping oil in the backyard, what ever. you have to have a solution. i will be posting my own complaint that the government of

belize is trying to kill me. documentaryding in videos on the whole ball of lax. there will be a lot of people who are embarrassed. it is a well-known fact that people are after me. there wasy guards -- very strange activities while we were there and it all stems from belize. that's where the money comes from. we had a video of a man from las vegas hiding behind a tree with his phone sticking out trying to take a video. liken away and pretended he was on the phone. i'm using my own website to complain about wings. >> i do have to ask you about belize. last time i checked, the case had gone cold. have authorities contacted you?

what the latest? >> i was never even charge or suspected, the just wanted to bust me like they question all my neighbors. i just chose not to be questioned. there are no charges. the only thing they admitted as they confiscated my robert e and locked it off. it was everything i had all stop the u.s. government is happy with me, i have no pending more and. that's the extent of it. if why the need for secrecy you didn't do anything wrong? why not disclose your location or change smartphones? >> because the deletion government has paid a lot of money to remove me because i continue to speak about it. >> they could bring me down, certainly the prime minister,

who i have on tape ordering the murder of people. it's a interesting to have. like to be quiet. that's obvious. i will not shut my mouth. >> you are also working on books and movies. what is the status of those products and who should play john mcafee in the feature film question mark >> i hope it is not any devito. feature film is coming out i think in eight months. is doing a two hour documentary and that should be coming out in a shorter time. doing one based on josh davis's book. i have nothing to do with that one. i don't particularly care for josh davis as a writer.

>> john mcafee, founder of future tense systems. is looking to help low income residents stay in their homes, but in the city can be with the tech community and the deep pockets?

>> you are watching "the best of bloomberg west" we focus on technology and the future of business. if actions are on the rise in san francisco as the tech boom is driving home and rent rises way up. the average rent is more than 2000 hours month in the city but some tenants with rent control a as little as $757 month. san francisco mayor edley lee is offering city loans for nonprofit to buy smaller apartment buildings in an effort to help low income residents they in their home. i spoke with former mayoral william -- willie brown and asked if it was enough to

counter the deep pockets of the tech community. >> i have to believe that they miss quote by whoever produced that story. $3 million means almost nothing in terms of addressing the issue. ed lee is committed to a lot more money than that. $3you could buy hovel with million in san francisco for the rents are rising twice as fast will stop the most are happening within blocks of these commuter bus stops where the google buses go down to silicon valley, but what else can be done? it changing building codes so more housing can be built or revising rent control? >> it is all of the above will stop most importantly, we've got to get away from identifying the tech community as the culprit. the tech community is not the

culprit alone. obviously, that's part of driving the economy, but we desperately need to do all the things you referenced. we need to change the respect is codes and be committed to a faster response by those interested in building. we need to become more creative come using the tech community to help us, with ideas on how best to do it. all of those things must rent control must be reviewed to see whether or not that's a cap on how land when and where people want to invest. >> $3 million as a direct quote we got from the mayor's office. >> i understand, but there's no way somebody who said $3 million -- it must have than $3 million per transaction or 3 million something because you can't buy anything of substance in this

unitsn terms of multiple at $3 billion. >> you wrote last year that a war is brewing on the streets of san francisco and a lot of people could get cut -- could get caught up if the tech world does not change its self-centered culture. >> the tech world is changing, by the way because you get people like salesforce.com, people making wonderful contributions in one fashion or another. some are only doing it in silicon valley. to use that extraordinary talent and skill that they have to help solve the problems of the city. the creativity of google healing with the issue involved in homelessness could be revolutionary, could be instructional for people all over this country if they would just put their minds to it. i believe they will receive new

advice from the government relation types who are not techies but our original government relations people who have become part of the tech world. when that happens, it will begin to evidence self with good work to ask you> i want about robin williams and his death. i know you were a longtime friend of his -- how are you feeling now on hearing this news? >> i was devastated. robin was a good friend. when you lose a friend, the like losing some person. call was someone i could upon for whatever purpose that might be needed. show up for benefits for organizations i glide methodist church and others. robin would show up at my birthday parties unannounced doing his usual thing.

you could not get him off the stage sometimes. he was an extra ordinary person and at 63 years of age, that genius is lost and i have lost a friend. him doingquestion of his usual thing, i've heard he's always on and it's the goal to know the real robin williams. i want you to take a listen to a clip of him speaking with charlie rose about some of the issues he was facing and at the same time injecting that classic robin williams comedy. >> i went to rehab in wine country just to keep my options open. and i came out the other side. >> how are you different when you came out the other side? >> drive. sober and it's ready amazing. before the heart surgery, one of things was life is extraordinary and i don't want to miss it. >> what was he really like or was it difficult to figure out

who he really was? >> that was robin williams. he was never different no matter what. you could be in an argument with him and he would be resorted to the same tack and those same words and all the irrelevancies that throw you off to win the argument. that's who he is and that's what he wants. >> what your favorite robin williams movie? >> mrs. doubtfire. >> me to. so good. former san francisco mayor willie brown. coming up, from mork and mindy to mrs. doubtfire, we are looking at the legacy robin williams created in hollywood, next stop -- next. ♪

>> welcome back. i'm emily chang. hollywood and movie fans everywhere are mourning the

death of actor comedian robin williams. anliams was found dead of apparent suicide in his bay area home as he lost his long struggle with depression, anxiety and early stages of our consultants aziz. he was just 63 years old. he had a movie, television and stand up career that spanned decades and he picked up emmys, grammys and an oscar. he was a leading man in more than arty films and has movies grossed or than $6 billion at the box office. career of robin williams, i spoke with the managing editor of ox office.com . i asked about his success at the box office. >> they did very well. robin williams is the sort of actor who would be able to get hits in the 80's anyone hundred $50 million angel. these midrange hits are not superhero movie numbers but they are the sort of numbers that elevate the box office will stop the numbers we are not seeing the summer.

they may not be grand slams, but they are home runs. i was. doubtfire -- surprised to find out that was the highest grossing of all of his movies. in dramatic roles society" andets " but it wasunting his comedy that we put him on the map. >> it was his comedy but like many great actors, i'm thinking of jimmy stewart. in the prime of their career, they are able to take darker roles. robin williams did that. in the early 2000, he took roles photo"s like "one hour and christopher nolan's "insomnia." he has a great range of roles and characters he's laid throughout his career. >> i was speaking with san

francisco mayor willie brown. atjust a/v birthday message his birthday party and we talked about how robin williams was always on, on or off stage will if he thought the pressure to be robin williams was what got to him will stop he said he thinks robin did not believe in his ingenious and always doubted himself. the pantheon of actors and acting, how genius is robin williams? how will he be remembered? >> he is on a great short list, especially a generation like mine that grew up watching films like "mrs. doubtfire." we grew up with him being a presence on our now defunct vhs player. got to he got older, we

see him in more dramatic roles. career from mork and mindy to good morning vietnam to usod will hunting." it just bands so many different kinds of roles. he was working on a number of different projects, including a potential sequel to mrs. doubtfire. what happened to some of the things that were in development? >> a lot of the films he was involved with are in postproduction if i understand correctly. they are either on the release calendar or looking for distribution deals. understand, "mrs. doubtfire two" -- anything that was popular years ago and has not had a seat will is probably also in the development phase. i don't feel that's in the imminent future but you never

know with hollywood. we will always remember him as mrs. doubtfire and i don't think audiences would like to see anyone else in that character. but in projects like this, it's impossible to tell if we would have seen the film made if he was still with us today. virus deadly ebola continues to spread across west africa, including the continent 's most populous nation, nigeria. up next, we speak with a doctor treating me to america deadens and how technology is helping their recovery. ♪

>> welcome back. i'm emily chang. the outbreak of the is the worst ever with the world health organization confirming more than 1000 people have been killed by the virus. of cases vast majority are in sierra leone, guinea and liberia, the virus has spread to

nigeria. of the two american aid workers currently being treated for a bullet at emory diversity hospital says he is growing stronger every day. he was on the team that transported to americans to emory university. >> he was transported to emory university hospital's isolation unit. the primary mission is take good care of the patient and her vita supportive care while protecting health-care workers and the public so no one else could get exposed. much of the technology applied in the transport element and hospital is the same. to not come in

contact with some of that infectious utley fluid. typically that requires us to try to provide the appropriate protections. you seen this on the videos. they are typically wearing a water impervious suit that covers them from head to toe. you also see them wearing a purifying respirator. this point -- the centers for disease control and prevention publishes the guidelines we are well aware of to help prevent the transmission of this illness. the idea is no health-care worker or anyone else could get in contact with any infectious bodily fluids will stop some of what you are seeing on television around the purifying respirator and hood are in addition to the guidelines that would work for a well.

it keeps the person cool because the respirator is loading cool air over their face. some of what you see on television is a result of tactical considerations. a drop guidance stresses of precaution required to prevent transmission of that was. it has been controversial whether these americans should have them brought back. how confident are you that you same -- the disease the would you say you are 100% confident? >> my confidence is absolute that health care workers that have come into contact with these two patients are safe and did not get exposed to any infectious utley fluids.

to make sure no one could get exposed to any infectious bodily fluids. my confidence is that it is 100% safe. >> one of the nurses from emory hospital wrote an op-ed -- wrote an op ed in the "washington post ." her point was we want these patients to come here and learn from them. one of you learned so far. >> that is -- i thought that was very well written. while there have been discussions about policy procedures, the real story is about two american humanitarian aid workers who got ill with a horrible disease and are looking for the best opportunities for recovery.

they are all working together to make this happen and they will provide these to americans their best opportunity for a full recovery. that is something we are committed to every day. >> emory is repaired to handle disease is much more serious and contagious than ebola. capabilitiesin the and the kinds of diseases we are talking about? >> this particular isolation unit was developed with novel infections. we've all heard about novel influential -- influenza viruses -- it did not make people that sick, but age five and one makes people very sick all stop other novel viruses we have not , as they emerge,

scientists and epidemiologists don't know much about them. we are so sure about how sick it's going to make the bold and although modes of transmission and what they are. they are specifically designed to accommodate those individuals that might get sick with a novel .nfection all the containment procedures are in place so all the health care workers are completely isolated from that individual. that's what this unit does. it separate from other units and separate from any visitors. those patients, the means by which the ebola virus is transmitted is well understood. mostly contact and drop of her

cautions will stop but other diseases like sars require additional protections, meaning it can be transmitted person to person by airborne means or aerosol. i will say many hospitals, maybe all hospitals in the united states have a capability to manage a patient that requires aerosol precautions. but in the case of illnesses but thatnovel and new has to be approached with a very meticulous approach. up, why aren't more girls getting into engineering? i talked with a nonprofit trying to topple -- trying to tackle tech's big diversity problem. ♪

>> welcome back. by 2020 the u.s. department of labor expects there will be 1.4 1.4 million computer specialist job openings. but the majority of those positions most likely will not go to women. 57% ofirls make up the overall college graduates, it would make a 12% of computer science graduates today. what are tech companies doing to get girls excited about coding? i got an inside look at how twitter is teaming up with a nonprofit to train the next generation of female engineers. >> turn it up. meet rihanna -- a 16-year-old high school senior who spent the last seven weeks at twitter. she's not an employee, but one of the 20 students excepted into girls who code -- a program that gives high school girls the opportunity to get hands-on computer science experience inside some of the biggest companies in technology.

>> i did not know this was what tech companies were like. people would tell me engineers were in cubicles all the time and always on the screen. but i feel like it is more than that. ask they represent what many know to be part of the solution to a long-standing problem in silicon valley. >> what is your goal? equity in computer science in particular. >> women count for 47% of the u.s. work worse but just 30% of staff at google. and at twitter, women account for only 10% of the technical staff. >> we are not happy with those numbers. we would like to improve them. entirely our goal. >> they've opened their doors to girls to -- girls who code to make the change happen. >> when i started doing everything, i realized computer science was what i wanted to do. >> this twitter engineer is a

girls who code mentor and volunteer. girl, one reason you don't get into computer sciences you don't have any idea what kind of career it can lead to. ask she learned to code at 14 to then skipped college study cs. she knows what it is like to be the only woman in the room. >> you come into the class, you've never programmed before, but there are guys who have been programming since they were nine. >> they want to make it less intimidating and more inspiring. talented women engineers are in high demand for the hottest jobs. placesterviewed at seven and got six. but i prepared and i work hard. >> as this summer program comes to a close, the two these girls to engineer their next move. girls who code offers programs in new york, miami as well and san francisco.

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