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carol: i'm caroline hyde at bloomberg world headquarters in
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york. ed: i am as a low in san francisco, this is bloomberg technology. what a week in the world of technology. >> earnings coming thick and fast, we are starting to digest them you look ahead to a important big game on sunday. coming up a record plunge for lyft the ridesharing giant sees shares plummet as it loses market share to. ed: using automated intelligence to combat automated intelligence. we speak to the ceo of seekr. how his technology is fighting the growing problem of misinformation in generative ai. >> coming down to the super bowl, the betting, the advertising, what to expect and what to order when you watch the big game this sunday. all that and more coming up a big -- a check on what is happening in the markets. is about the macro, federal reserve, tech stocks falling is borrowing costs rise.
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the nasdaq is off once again the biggest -- the vix index stabilizing run 20 volatility is elevated as we deal with swirling movements and stocks likely to prevail, let's show what it meant for the week. the nasdaq 100 for its worst week in this particular encz mark since december, so -- this particular benchmark, since december. ed: look at has look coming down 5% friday but missing higher on the week by almost 4%. alphabet continuing its slide, its worst week since november, down for a third consecutive straight day. first time this happens as early december. the markets easing onto the mishaps around the ai offerings. spotify is up, they are taking a stake in supporting the strategy around cost cuts. lyft, i have a different chart
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that tells you the story. a picture paints a thousand words. give me my terminal chart, is the biggest drop on record for lyft. you can see the size and scope and reaction from investors. she covers everything gig economy and ridesharing in what was the reaction to this plunge? guest: wall street is unhappy. you saw it in the massive wave of downgrades a mere day after the results yesterday. 8 major banks looking at the stocks and saying if -- we do not know if it is worth as much as it was. among those jp morgan saying we do not know if the rideshare rebound is lifting all boats and lyft missing out. morgan stanley looking at the slim parfitt -- profit margins. the pessimistic take from bankamerica lowering its price
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target to $10. that is massive considering the company ipoed in the 70's. we do not know if the growth outlook is here considering you have to lower prices to get consumers back. there is one bright spot, if there is anything to bring back investor faith, it is what it will take to get the costs down further and put more earnings back into investor's pockets. the company mentioned they are willing to look at additional cost cuts. >> i will play deviled -- devils advocate, the company says they have the highest quarterly revenue in history, they have any record of active writers. people are coming -- active riders. people are coming back and doing more ridesharing. are the able in any way to fight back to such a remarkable argot move? -- market move?
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>> you think is a good thing that drivers are coming back to the platform, the problem last year's that they were not enough and that meant higher prices. it is an interesting dynamic because the higher prices helped lyft revenue and profit for both companies. the disadvantage of lyft is that it solely relies on a rideshare business. it does not have delivery like uber does. when you look at writer dynamics -- rider dynamics come to play with less higher fairs and the rev . -- revenue line. they had to find a way to grow. ed: let's talk about market share. you and i look at the reality of the market share situation. is it fair lyft is becoming a distant second place super bowl? -- two uber?
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guest: it is looking that way. when we look at where the two companies were at the beginning of the pandemic, uber had not grown out the food delivery business as it had this year. the future for lyft is looking bleak. it is looking to never ship product -- membership product to get more customers. we'll have to see what other tricks it has in his pockets because investors are waiting to see more active writers -- riders return. ed: very big difference between uber and lyft. in a post on linkedin brandon revealed he had assumed the role of tesla general counsel and corporate secretary after departing from dish. the move coming after musk tweeted last year that the company was building a hard-core
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litigation apartment where they directly issue lawsuits. in the weekly twitter spaces we had a special guest speaker that had choice words for elon musk. take a listen. >> i think it is crucially important to be able to take criticism. this is something that over the rear -- years i have realized with elon he is very in -- thin skinned. >> he said he would take -- make an activist play for tesla's board. >> activism is the thing to look at, when we talk about spotify as well. he says i have been out there talking about tesla because the company will not talk about itself. they do not have marketing and they do not go to the mainstream media. he wants to change that, he wants to get a board seat. fascinating what the reaction will be. ultimately he is a tesla bull.
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ed: he has 440,000 shares or so. a tiny player, but he has the support and pledge of the single individual biggest shareholder and he drop some names on individual -- institutional side as well. there was a lot of criticism and skepticism on twitter at least when the news came out. >> so great to have these guests joining us on twitter spaces. come join us next friday. a story we have followed all week, kracken has settled with the sec and will pay $30 million over allegations it broke the rules. earlier we caught up with gary gensler. take a listen. >> this significance is there is a business model and crypto whereby, i will call them storefronts. they are intermediaries.
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they asked the public and solicit the public for funds, for the crypto and say we will give it to you every -- give you a return. they may call it lending, in this case is called staking as a service. 4% 8% or even 21% turns. there in lies the issue. they are doing this without the proper disclosure. the investing public us to decide what risk they want to take. the question is, was cracked and -- kracken were others who do this during what they set on the website or where they lending them, trading against them, running other business models. the disclosure is critical for the investing public. david: my understanding is that kracken can no longer do this to mystically in the united states for u.s. citizens unless they register as a security. does that break the business model? does that mean they cannot be in the business?
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can they come back and register and the disclosure? >> i will make it more generic. these storefronts. these crypto exchange's, crypto lending platforms, crypto staking as a service. they need to come into compliance, and they are generally noncompliant right now. the investing public and only at risk by the speculative nature of crypto. they are at risk of ending up in line at a bankruptcy court. a lot of these platforms are doing things they are not disclosing. to answer your question, yes. firms can come into compliance. time-tested rules. register their offerings and properly disclose the risk and what they are doing with your funds behind-the-scenes. that would be a compliant field. in this case crack and chose, they did not want to offer this in the -- kracken joe's they did
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not want to over this in the u.s. and resettled. >> masako president joe biden. he ordered -- let's talk a bout president joe biden, ordering the pentagon to shoot down -- it had crossed the u.s. and provoked a national uproar. the u.s. sanctioned six firms linked to chinese aerospace programs. ed: coming up, ai and disinformation. the debate continues. what are the risks? we will get insight of a search engine veteran. that comes up next. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> we do see tech as an attractive sector. there are secular tailwinds that also the potential for growth with specific industries and companies within the area. artificial intelligence, machine
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>> like any technology, it deftly has its limitation. like anything that you implement we know it's limitations. >> yesterday saying they know that the ai the company and permitted in their business is not perfect. they still need to rely on real people from time to time.
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let's talk about imperfection, let's talk about the rush into artificial intelligence and the risks. ethical and ultimately security was -- wise. he is ceo of seekr. your company uses artificial intelligence itself to analyze articles and provide, and analysis of how misleading or factually correct they are. talk to us about chat gpt and other generative model chatbots, how much could they need misinformation -- feed misinformation? >> they will create an explosion of content, that is the objective, having it widely distributed and present in every application we use. the ideas degree as much content as possible -- the idea is to
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create as much content as possible, the more content, the more usage. the more income is generated. it is no surprise that they introduced it at this time as there -- their earnings begin to flag a bit. this is a new way to drive the earnings process. >> take the other side, companies are deeply excited about the productivity these innovations can bring. how artificial intelligence generative ai can fuel for the growth just for their own companies. for us all, for freedom, for productivity. talk to us but what they can put in place to make sure these movements are safe. we know open ai use machines and humans to monitor content. what can they do? guest: without transparency there is no trust. what we see today is that there is a lack of transparency on the web and that is been growing the
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last four or five years. now he has unlike a generative ai that will produce even more orders of magnitude content. what needs to be put into place is what has been put into place over time. rating systems. rateing system to help gauge the quality incredibly of the content created. with that you have trust and with trust you have use. then you can generate another evolution in the use. ed: this week, seemed to sum up this conversation. you have the risk without a bet on the one hand and the euphoria with microsoft on the other. what it took was a demo video from google, that demonstrated its bad ai giving an inaccurate reading. the stock had its worst week since november. in your opinion, which was the bigger moment for artificial
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intelligence? what came out of microsoft or what we see on screen right now? the market reaction to google's inaccuracy. his problem. -- it's problem. guest: everyone that uses digital products online no that -- know that trust is an issue. both companies have proven that pushing something to market without trust and transparency will create more confusion and concern then benefit. over time that can be ameliorated. now they have to be defending something, and they set out with the transparency and the measurement scheme on quality, they may not have been in this particular situation. ed: does open ai's technology make microsoft's being more competitive in the search market -- bing more competitive in the
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search market? guest: i will say they will at least maintain their position. google on the other hand, both have taken a different a search. microsoft approached it by introducing a conversational platform. google is approaching it by producing the next generation of a search platform. the difference here, the size of the data that is used, the source of the data, and the depth. until we know both it is very hard to tell. >> let's talk about where else some sort of rails of the road could come in. many would argue that is the government's role. the department of commerce released 1.0 ai risk management framework. the white house released a framework for the ai bill of rights, that some companies push back on. is there enough from the administration have oversight to ensure that ai is built properly?
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guest: in most democracies, people are not interested in overregulation by the government. i think the source will be private companies and giving those private companies visibility to the solutions is what has to happen. i do not think it should have -- come from government. >> thank you. let's talk about artificial intelligence, some of the euphoria around it and people who want to get in on the action. sound ventures, la-based firm from actor ashton kutcher is raising a fund. it is targeting to hunter million dollars for the vehicle although the terms have not been -- $200 million for the vehicle although the terms of not been finalized. there is radical ventures, air street capital and conviction partners. ed: coming up. for some it is a dream come true. being able to immerse yourself,
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caroline, in the world of harry potter. with the new game out today. there is some controversy around it, too. we will unpack you all next. this is bloomberg. ♪ three nights, esg... the broker will take your bonds. -diversification, futures, options. fiduciary. leverage. [whispering] -frothy markets. psst. virtual real estate is a lock. ♪ cold hard cash ♪ j.p. morgan wealth management knows the world is
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caroline: harry potter fans. there is a lot of them, many have long wished to inhabit or least visit hogwarts castle. it is possible with hogwarts agassi, -- legacy. it is the most convincing recreation yet. the culture wars surrounded, it too. talk to us about the cultural side of it. jk rowling has been by many proceed to make trans phobic
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comments dating back to 2018. making many wondering if they will buy the game or not. >> it has been controversial from the start, it was announced a few months after jk rowling became open about her views on transgendered people. people talked about boycotts, and saying if you play the game or by the game you are supporting someone who's views is seen by love people to be transported. there is legislation in scotland for people to make it easier to change their genders on birth certificates and a whole bunch of other stuff. unlike the books of old, the harry potter books that came out and were blockbuster lunches and fans lined up -- lauches and fans lined up at midnight this one comes with more controversy. ed: this videogame is seizing a big moment, you point out,
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wherever you think about it as well reviewed. it has people looking at the game itself. guest: what is interesting is, in the past, the harry potter games were usually movie titan games that were rushed out -- tie-in games that were rushed out to make the release of the film and follow the same story as each of the films. this is completely original, 100 years before the books took place. a high-end game unlike any other harry potter game we have seen. that is why it gets such high reviews. is a game we have not seen before. we have not seen a recreation of hogwarts castle this detailed before. caroline: very inclusive details within that game as well, in your great report you say, it is almost like they're trying to combat to a significant amount any culture war.
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they weave in inclusion and make it hospitable or many young person to come play. is it really good, will it attract people no matter what? it feels like the sales have been great. guest: sales are great first and foremost because of harry potter. this is reaching a critical mass. your point about inclusion it is interesting. especially in the wake of jk rowling's views, i will not get into everything because it would take many hours to unpack all the criticism held about the harry potter series in general, minorities, race, and anti-semitic tropes and other stuff. this game feels like it is trying to be extremely welcoming. the character creator when he started new character in the game, who you play as in the game, you can create one that has a voice and a body type that is completely independent from their dormitory choice of male and female. you can create a pretty trans
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friendly character, a unique thing and something very refreshing. it would be welcomed by love people if not for the baggage the series author has come with. ed: bloomberg's jason schreier, thank you so much, if you don't, do subscribe to the newsletter jason and his team put out. the super bowl is going viral, the game of the game of acacian of ad spots and also gammon, -- gambling, much much more ahead of the sunday. this is bloomberg. ♪ when you automate sales tax with avalara, you don't have to worry about things like changing tax rates or filing returns. avalarahhh ahhh
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♪ >> welcome back. ed: i and ed ludlow in san francisco.
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caroline: is a friday vibe because it is about to be a big sunday vibe. the super bowl. it is going viral. send will expecting record bets sunday. the ceo spoke to bloomberg markets earlier. >> we are projecting 17 million bets on the platform, more than double what we would have seen last year. but, it is also our biggest acquisition moment. we will probably bring half a million new users to the platform. it is a great opportunity. you can bet on hundreds of different player props. it will be an exciting day for fans. >> is it going to be profitable for you? it is -- is it going to be a good day for you? how does this stack up in terms of bottom line? >> it is going to be a good day. it depends on the outcome of the game. the important thing is that consumers bet based on the narrative they want to see.
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what you are seeing is right now the money is flowing to the philadelphia eagles. apologies if you are a chiefs fan. what is most exciting is the player props. 90% of our vets will contain at least one player prop. 35% to 40% will be a same game parlay. that is exciting. you can bet on the fact that the brothers will both score a touchdown or the correct score. 30,000 bets on the eagles beating the chiefs 37-34. there are some any bets you can choose from. hopefully it is a consumer friendly day but we will see. >> how big are those parlay bets going to be in terms of volume and profitability for you? >> they are huge. same game parlay has been a big advantage for offend will. we are owned by our parent company. this is a product we brought over from australia and other parts of the world. we were the first to market.
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for us, it is a much higher percentage of our overall mix. but it is also why i think sports vetting has really taken off. when you are invested in a player or a certain parlay, it makes take a more exciting even if the game is a blowout. >> you mentioned it is going to be a big day in terms of customer acquisition. what is the cost of acquisition for those customers? >> one of the things that has driven fan dual's success is we have been more efficient in how we drive customers to the platform. we have a 45% share of the market that we have been able to be about 25% more efficient in bringing customers on. a big part of that has been the head start we had with our fantasy sports business. we also had a level of discipline. acquisition costs are going to vary and this is an important event. >> i you still sticking to
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profitability? could it be sooner? >> we feel confident about our path to profitability. we were the first u.s. operator to be profitable in q2 of this year appeared the fundamentals of our business look strong. we remain confident about full-year profitability. ed: that was amy howe. let's continue the conversation with head of global tech coverage brad stone. you were writing this week in one of our daily newsletters that this could be the biggest weekend for u.s. betting history. but the story is a tech one. it is about online apps. >> that is right. the single most bet upon sporting event in u.s. history. it is setting all kinds of records for a number of reasons. since 2018, sports betting has been legal in the u.s.
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that was a supreme court decision. you have these fantasy apps like fan will and draftkings pivoting a into the business. and then 33 states legalizing it. in california, we can't get in on the action. voters turned down a proposition in november. in ohio and massachusetts and indiana, sports betting is legal and people are embracing it. caroline: then why was amy talking up profitability, but the share price of competitors has been under pressure? why has everyone taken a step back to think maybe this has not been quite the world success they expected? >> you turn on a foot all game and you see jb's move, the comedian, advertising for caesars. you see the manning brothers also advertising. jamie foxx. fanned will and draftkings are everywhere. it is competition.
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this has been a gold rush. there is a scramble around the super bowl to acquire new users. it mirrors what has happened in the tech industry at large. discarding notions of profitability. trying to acquire new customers. marketing, spending, hiring. and now with recession and all this competition, investors are looking for profitability. that is why we have seen stock prices go down. ed: i am a fairweather 49ers fan. i am still going to my super bowl party this sunday with very little interest. i do not have a horse in this race. but my friends are talking about parlays and i have no idea what they are talking about. what is it? >> my mother is from philadelphia. >> here we go. >> i am going with the eagles. what you are right, parlay. it is such a big phenomena right
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now. i think fan dual listing 45% of all their bets will be on parlays. think of that as a lottery ticket. you are betting on a number of things to happen. if they do, you win. you can bet the chiefs will win, patrick mahomes will pass for over 300 yards, their tight end travis kelce he will catch a touchdown. that would be called a three legged parlay. if you hit that, you win. as these bets get longer and more sophisticated, the payout increases. caroline: may the best team win. bloomberg head of global tech. let's continue this conversation. maybe ed is not going to get too psyched, but maybe he will get into the ads. or rihanna. let's talk about advertising with the president of edo, a
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platform measuring predictive behaviors driven by tv advertising. we are going to bring you a pull from our own audience who went to twitter to ask what are you caring about in the super bowl? are you carrying about the actual game? are you caring about the ads? about 30% said yes, they care about the adverts. which is a lot. less than 50% are saying it is about the game. talk to us about why we care about the ads so much? why do 30% of people on twitter think it is all about the ads? >> this is a special event in american culture. it brings together a much broader demographic than a normal nfl game. it is the largest audience that tv attracts all year by a large margin. what you get is a diverse audience and the advertising
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industry realizes they can reach more people in one short moment dan and any time of the year. they bring out their best ideas. that comes together and shows the ads can be as entertaining as the action of the game. caroline: my mind goes back to last year. quite often people would say this is perhaps the canary in the coal mine. the people who spend the biggest end up being the companies you should bet on in real life. crypto owned the space last year and we know what has happened since. talk to us about who is going to be putting money out there on some expensive advertising. >> crypto's pain was sports betting's gain. the sports betting sites you were featuring, they will be major spenders. you're going to see a lot from the beer and alcohol category. this is the first year in a long time where anheuser-busch did
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not have an exclusive, so you are seeing more competition. i think competition is one of the interesting themes this year. you're going to see a big presence from the delivery competitors. uber eats and doordash. both are indicative of the themes we see are the best performing ads in a super bowl. ed: my mind goes back to last year. a different phenomenon. there's one company i cover closely which does not advertise, tesla. yet following 2022 super bowl, tesla shared data that they saw a massive surge in interest because their competitors had put so much energy and money into advertising. is there anything you can speak to about that, the indirect effects of all of this effort to get primetime spots on super bowl sunday? >> absolutely.
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-- electric vehicles had the single biggest ad last year. at that -- it's generated most of the -- it was powerful. it took a swing at tesla. what we see in the data is consumers love electric vehicles. they respond at a much higher rate per person than for a gas powered vehicles. across all automotive advertising on tv year-round. automakers responded with a terse hash what you see in our data is consumers to get confused. they will search for a competitor's brand when it is a different brand that is actually advertising. that certainly will have that rising tide lifts all boats kind of effect for an entire category when we see that big push. ed: i know the nation is excited for the super bowl but we spent most of this year so far and
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pretty much all of 2022 talking about the slowdown in the ad market. talking about advertisers pulling back, and in the new players that are encroaching. how does that factor into this sunday? >> you're going to see a lot fewer automobile ads then you would have been many of the past years. it is going to be a market drop in automotive advertising. and a category like streaming which is incredibly competitive, you are going to see more streaming ads from basically every player. they will all be present. ed: kevin crim. great insight. you have to wait and see what happens sunday. >> you will be able to see our rankings of the best-performing ads early monday morning on addweek.com. >> bloomberg has learned that fox has turned down offers of more than $2 billion for its
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streaming service. that is more than four times what he paid for the business. but, the fox ceo wants to keep it. it is a free ad supported service and it is free online tv that is bringing viewers these days. -- from traditional tv to a combination of subscription and free to watch services. revenue at tubi and other services is expected to double to $30 billion in the u.s. by 2026, according to digital tv research. coming up, no rest for the activist. spotify is the latest target as one firm seeks to support cost-cutting measures. we will bring you the details next. this is bloomberg. ♪
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caroline: spotify targeted by an activist investor. -- is supporting the company's plans to become more efficient. for more, rihanna baker. value act has been busy. they have taken a board seat at salesforce. activist investors in general have been busy. >> it is true. it has been a busy week for activist investors. although -- is not doing a proxy bed anymore. but, based in san francisco, they are very involved in tech right now. jason more for give a speech
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this morning where he revealed they were now spotify. he set boards like microsoft salesforce. right now we do not know how big their stake is or what they are doing behind the scenes, but spotify has to be cutting costs per they like that. ed: i guess that is my question i know they are looking at technology of late, but why spotify? what is it about spotify that makes them a target? they are kind of already doing the things that many activist investors push for. >> they have not had activists before that is one thing that could be compelling that would attract an investor to shake things up but, spotify expanded its headcount during the pandemic by a lot. they really saw their costs balloon as they got further into podcasting content. it looks like there could be a lot of fat to trim. that is kind of what is attracting value act.
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they have started to make some changes, but there could always be more. we will see what happens. spotify is founder controlled peer the ceo is also the founder and that is always a bit complicated. but value act has gone to companies before like the new york times that were controlled by national line caroline: what was interesting was the information coming from a speech that the -- ceo made at columbia university. tell me through how this usually unfolds. when you read the story, it all seems rather complementary. what are the tax they take? do they tend to go for the jugular? do the -- or they say they want to be long-term investors? >> i would say value act, what their strategy is usually to be friendly to companies. they are known as constructivist instead of activist, which would
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be the normal term. they like getting involved behind-the-scenes. when -- set on microsoft's board , microsoft made a lot of changes that help to get it where it is today. they are behind-the-scenes, but they did make this publicly known in a speech today. that was a bit of a surprise. we do not always see a new investor come out. there's so little detail right now and how big the stake is. we will be looking for more detail. ed: liana baker. terrific reporting once again. turning to expedia, the online travel name receiving a wave of analyst up aids as the company sees a strong start to the year. earlier we heard from their ceo who explained how they have been able to buck the trend of tech layoffs. >> we actually did a lot during covid and pretty covid to right size our business. we were ahead of the curve.
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while a lot of tech companies were adding aggressively during covid, we were stable to down. we have added a lot of technology capabilities and a lot more people, engineering and product. in general, we are in a good spot and we are continuing to invest in the product and our capabilities for the consumer. we do not expect to see major downsizing. >> i heard everyone talk about ai. i talked about personalization on your talk -- your conference call. if the story a head is one where there could continue to be growth, where you expecting to see that growth in 2023? there has been a lot of focus on asia, particularly with china's reopening. >> there are definitely some geographical opportunities in asia. to a larger extent, we have been rebuilding our whole technical platform for years and rolling out our new strategy in the u.s. which is focused on long-term
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customer retention, high-value consumers and working on retention, great sticky products and loyalty programs and that has been working in the u.s. we are starting to roll that out to more places and more brands as those capabilities expand and we get our technological transformation finished. that is going to drive our growth. geographically, we expect the west to be strong. notwithstanding your commentary about the economy, everything has been strong. >> it feels like that has showed up in a way when it comes to the fx pressures. in the fourth quarter, your revenue took a 400 basis point hit due to a strong dollar. you're speaking about geopolitical pressures, is that something you see continuing? >> i don't think so. obviously it does impact comps and comparing historical results to his stash but in general --
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in general, pricing has been high. we have seen inflation and travel, considerable inflation but prices seem to be holding well. whether it is airfare or hotel rates. the consumers seem to be willing to pay for it. demand remains strong and items -- i don't see much change. he may have some vectors impacted where certain travelers may not want to come to the u.s. or whatever. but we are very strong in the u.s. a strong dollar helps us. caroline: peter kern. he sounded pretty optimistic. over the last couple of days, you have seen expedia on the downside. off by 9%. today was its worst day since may of 2022. clearly some concerns about fourth-quarter misses. coming up, more job cuts underway in the tech industry. we will bring you details on the layoffs and how apple has
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♪ polanco let's talk layoffs. -- caroline: let's talk layoffs. thousands are losing their jobs as companies cut costs for the first time. think about an upstart firing one in five workers. other firms have made deeper cuts. silica and micron cutting costs. this time in the c-suite. there's one company talking the trend, apple. during the pandemic fueled hiring binge, apple added fewer employees than other big tech firms. on top of that, the company generated far more revenue per new hire.
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according to data compiled by bloomberg. revenue per additional headcount , 2.5 million for apple. we know they are so profitable. ultimately, it is a sign apple managed to weather the downturn a little better. ed: mike mckee always points out to me, look at the jobless claims number. these tech layoffs don't show up are there because they have not happened yet or they are finding new jobs quick. the theme being lean and mean. caroline: lean and mean. that does it for bloomberg technology. ed: don't forget our podcast. spotify, i heart, apple. this is bloomberg. ♪ and effortlessly responds to both of you. our smart sleepers get 28 minutes more restful sleep per night. proven quality sleep. only from sleep number.
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