josh lipton, "nightly business report", austin, texas. >>> coming up, affordable luxury.sounds good, right? it's the fastest growing segment of the car industry. what are the high-end auto makers doing to win over potential customers? we have that story coming up next. >>> sabiro the pizza chain filed for bankruptcy protection with 30 affiliate owners. it's the second bankruptcy filing in the past three years and plans to close 155 of the approximately 400 outlets to cut costs. >>> we have an auto recall to tell you about. chrysler is recalling 25,000 jeep grand cherokees and dodge durango suvs with 2012 to 2013. there is a problem with break fluid that could make the pedal soft. >>> jeeps and suvs are hot. america is shifting gears, buying more luxury cars. in fact, affordable luxury car sales are ex spelpected to grow times faster and many of the up scale cars will have a noticeably lower sticker price. the battle over entry level luxury cars is just now heating up and phil lebeau has the details. >> reporter: it's the latest example of luxury auto makers trying to win

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joining me now from washington to discuss this development and a new imf report is david lipton, the's number two official. david thank you for being with us. let's talk about this latest development. your team is staying in kiev we assume that means to work on a rescue or assistance deal for the ukraine? >> they we have had a team there for about a week. the last few months have been very topsy turvey for the economy in ukraine. they have done that work. we have looked at their findings and now we're switching to having a negotiation to see whether they can embark on a program of reform and we can support them with finance that will then catalyze support from countries ash the world. >> typically when the imf goes in and helps a country and puts conditions about reform, they are not faced with the same situation. is there some concern that the imf might put conditions on that could push people on the fence over to the russians? >> i think what is interesting right now, most interesting right now, is that the ukrainian -- the interim ukrainian government realizes the predicament they

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josh lipton has more. >> reporter: the x-box 1 needs a jolt, and today it could get it. microsoft debuted its hottest new video game title "titan fall." the company has a lot riding on its success. research from npd says that sony's gaming console, the ps 4, is beating the x-box 1 by at least a 2 to 1 margin in the u.s. >> this generation of consoles is off to the best start ever. >> reporter: microsoft isn't throwing in the towel. the chief marketing and strategy officer at x-box is excited about titan fall's potential. >> i do think that titan fall will be a big boost to the console generation market. as i said it's already off to the hottest start yet. but i think people have been waiting for a great game like this to come and make the move. so we're optimistic that it's going to get a lot of people to come try x-box 1. >> reporter: there have been reports of hiccups with the launch of the new game, but microsoft needs strong software titles like titan fall to drive sales of its x-box platform. while sony says it has sold 6 million ps 4 consoles, microsoft in its last

josh lipton takes us inside the making of a blockbuster. >> reporter: think it costs a lot of money to make a blockbuster movie? >> for all we know we may be able to patch you through to their security. >> reporter: try producing a blockbuster video game. one week from today sony will release infamous second son. its first big exclusive game for the ps 4 video game console. this is a third installment of a series that has been very successful for sony, and one that it hopes will help it continue beating microsoft in the console wars. making and marketing a game like this can require an enormous budget. >> a big budget game title right now will cost almost as much as a feature film. i mean, you can talk budgets from 50 million all the the way up to over $200 million for a specific title. >> reporter: it's a multiyear, massive undertaking to make these big budget video games. there can be up to 100 people working on a game for years. game developers, engineers and artists, just for the music there were three composers and about ten musicians creating the soundtrack for infamous second so

josh lipton explains. >> reporter: it's an ipo sparking a ton of buzz. alibaba started the process of filing for a u.s. ipo and months of speculation about where it would go public. the chinese e commerce giant runs websites where consumers and companies buy goods. alibaba makes money for advertising. now the company will make a public debut possibly one day bringing the business state side and competing with well-known e commerce giants. >> going public on the new york stock exchange will be a great event for them. that could really help them be a very, very important force in the u.s. and in europe, as well, competing with amazon and ebay. >> reporter: alibaba generated revenue of 2.3 billion in 2011 which doubled in 2012 and most recent quarter revenue surged more than 50% year over year. alibaba is profiting from a fast-growing chinese e commerce market the company dominates. raymond james peg the evaluation at $150 billion. that's especially good news for yahoo which holds a 24% stake in alibaba. after taxes analysts say that stake could be worth $2

josh lipton was on the scene, joins us with the latest. josh, any new news on the deal with apple? at apple hq in cupertino, california, the ceo did field questions. we have done 23 acquisitions in the past 16 months, we would be interested, also, in a big acquisition, but it would have to make strategic sense for us. acquisitions, we have done 23 in the past year and half. but we'll keep looking for ones that make long-term for the company. he was also asking about product innovation. some share holders were asking, why don't you talk more about the products in your pipeline and tim cook responding, listen, we're not interesting in laying out a roadmap for our rivals, nor are we interested, he in his words, being ripped off by our rivals. finally, he talked about the emerging markets and the growth the company is seeing there, we talked about brazil, cook said they did less $4 billion in revenue last year. last year, over $30 billion. finally, of course, shareholder were here, a couple of hundred of them. they drove here and flew here. they were to listen to cook. they were also h

josh lipton has more on what's being learned and what those students hope to accomplish. >> reporter: instagram's founder kevin sistrom sold his company to facebook for $1 billion. as students at stanford university now prepare for graduation, many dream of creating the next instagram so they do what sistrom did, enroll in the technology ventures program. the program started in 1988. its mission is to teach students to succeed as high tech entrepreneurs. its alumni have worked all over silicon valley from google to silver lake partners. every year about 2,000 students take part in the program where they study entrepreneurship, finance and business strategy. many create their own business ideas which they then present to a panel of venture capitalists, stanford's own version of the popular television program "shark tank." >> if i want to take somebody's ideas and turn them into reality, it would be very helpful to have the support of stdp and to learn how to sell my ideas to the investment community. >> reporter: professors at the school say part of the program involves toughening up t

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josh lipton, "nightly business report," cupertino, california. >>> let's get the reaction now to that meeting from one of apple's largest shareholders, calpers. a california public employees retirement system. the senior portfolio manager and director at calpers is with us. ann your firm or fund has had a position in apple for many years since the 1980s. you've been to a lot of these shareholder meetings over the years. did tim cook say anything that you think is going to inspire and encourage investors and make them feel confident about the direction he's taking the company? >> yes. i think the most impressive thing about tim cook is that he stays cool, calm and collected when there is noise and distraction all around him. the company's been under a lot of intense short-term pressure, notably from mr. carl icahn. i think he's been smartly rebuffed. and the voice of reason has prevailed. this is a company that's very important to calpers for the long term. we're very pleased that tim cook has got his eye on the ball, thinking about the long term, thinking about innovation, and he's co

josh lipton has more. >> reporter: there's always buzz in silicon valley about what company could be the next hot ipo. a name that's often mentioned, palantere. the case is easy to make. palantere's specialty is crunching massive amounts of data so that organizations can make sense of it. its clients include the department of defense, the los angeles police department, and big banks such as jpmorgan and morgan stanley. palantere has already raised close to $1 billion. its revenues are estimated to be close to 500 million. and analysts peg its valuation at more than $9 billion. >> they've made it really easy for enterprises to get their arms around all this information, whether it's structured data or unstructured information, e-mails, memos, voice, video. and it's very simple for a company just to get their arms around their information and put it all together. >> reporter: palantere has attracted prominent silicon valley players such as peter teal whose stake in the company is said to be worth almost $1 billion as well as famed investor stanley drunkenmiller and cia's inqutel ventur

josh lipton has more on facebook's takeover of oculus and the company's plans to move a virtual world. >> reporter: the social networks are going to be -- the computing platform of today is mobile. the computing platform of tomorrow could be virtual reality. that's the big bet facebook's mark zuckerberg just made with his $2 billion acquisition of oculus, which develops virtual reality technology. users put on a headset and feel like they're inside and part of a video game. it's a totally immersive gaming experience which facebook sees as the next big opportunity. >> it seems like they've done a pretty good job of securing market share and opportunities when it comes to mobile. and they're thinking about what's next. and to them, seemingly virtual reality is one of those areas where you could see some new paradigm. >> reporter: zuckerberg says virtual reality has all kinds of applications. imagine feeling like you're courtside at a game, talking one-on-one with your doctor, or studying in a classroom halfway around the world. >> that is clear? >> reporter: this isn't just sci-fi fanta

to piggyback on what josh lipton was talking about. he was talking about sony's platform. what it could be used for. i think it's important for us to remember that facebook is very much about advertising and marketing. it's about personal experiences. it's about targeting. you can imagine putting on a v.r. headset in the right environment, and feeling like you're actually inside that car that you might want to test drive. being able to potentially look at different interiors, the way they look. also, walk through a home that you might be interested in actually literally walking through. walk through it virtually, wearing one of the headsets. there's all sorts of applications like that, that you can imagine for the very types of verticals where facebook could make a lot of money. 80% of this deal in stock. it's an interesting way for facebook to go forward. >> jon, at the same time, that sounds great. but facebook is essentially getting into the hardware business. is that -- as an investor, do you want facebook to be in a business that's going to be pressured on margins? ha

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scott, back to you. >> josh lipton, thank you.his spending free that facebook is going on, murph, is this good or bad for the stock? $21 billion in the month. >> short term it's obviously the market is speaking, selling off. whether that's to do with the purchases or whether that's to do with a lot of momentum names rolling over a bit in the last couple of weeks. >> is this questionable, the way they're spending and allocating their capital on a day when we talk about how xaerchs a s acom spending their money? >> you can question it. i look at it, i'm a shareholder. i'm still in the name. and i think this could potentially be a phenomenal move long term. short term the market doesn't love it. remember, they are doing the bulk of these deals with stock that has appreciated greatly. >> what does that say about facebook stock in and of itself. >> that they're smart. >> it says the ceo -- exactly. the ceo is going out there and seeing an appreciated currency and using it to acquire -- >> i heard the former head of development for face

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