julia: that was sony ceo kazuo hirai speaking with emily chang.rlet: time for the bloomberg business flash. kodak is joining the crypto craze. the company will launch a digital ledger and dakota coin which photographers can use to receive instant payment for their work. shares spiking on the announcement. kodak says it will give photographers and agencies greater control. apple is facing a french criminal probe on whether companies -- the company deliberately shortened the life of iphones. apple recently issued an apology for a software tweak that slowed performance in its iphone 6 models. tesla has started manufacturing its long-awaited electricity producing shingles. elon musk says product will transform the rooftop solar industry. the glass tiles look like ordinary shingles but have a flat solar cell. that is your business flash update. julia: they're deathly prettier. -- definitely prettier. navigating big changes in the health care sector including the tax overhaul and its impact on obamacare. scarlet: you can catch all of our interviews, con

coming up, we take you to las vegas for -- to bring a conversation with kazuo hirai. bloomberg. ♪ ♪ shery: this is "bloomberg markets." i'm shery ahn. vonnie: the strong holiday sales season is healing our stock of the hour. rising more than 4%. the most since early last month. emma chandra is here. how good was targets holiday? i know you were there. they said they saw a 3.4% increase in holiday periods sale which is an acceleration on the third quarter and also a turnaround from last year's holiday sale. we have got a chart which shows you year on year comp sales. you can see that change there. it illustrates how target is turning around and what analysts are seeing is this turnaround happening. something analysts says was encouraging. they were encouraged to see strong store, and a strong traffic. all of this is good for ceo into cornell who is a year the $7 billion turnaround plan for target. this makes things look like he is doing a good job. that turnaround involves things like opening smaller locations in urban areas, introducing more store brands, lowering pri

while there we caught up with , sony ceo kazuo hirai.that sony wants to be a buyer in media consolidation, so naturally, we asked just to they might be targeting? take a listen. the strategy write-down was to make sure we really have a really strong operation, first and foremost, before we start looking at options. as these assessments come up, we will enter into them, but we need to make sure that we set up our own studio. emily: so let's talk about the , broader strategy then. with that involve better ip, better distribution, better tieups in asia, a focus on more niche movies, for example? >> i think you hit some great points. the first thing we really need to do is look at the a.p. library that we have -- the ip library we have, "spiderman" being one of the greatest. we have a lot of other ip's, "jumanji," for example, and make sure that we go back into our library and take advantage of the ip library we have. i think there is also a lot of potential for tapping into our the first party , software we have, and those are questions on

. >>> coming up, the ceo of sony, kazuo hirai will join me sony stock near $50 a share, a level wheresn't been in a decade we'll talk about sony's tvs, image sensors, cameras, and more that's coming up on "squawk alley" >>> good morning, i'm sue herera khamenei warning the u.s. it would fail miserably if it attempted to interfere with iranian affairs again. at least 21 people were killed in the protests and some 3,700 were arrested. >>> french prosecutors have opened an investigation into apple over revelations it secretly slowed down older versions of its iphones. lawsuits against the company have been filed in the u.s. and also in israel apple has offered a big discount on replacing the battery >>> a mafia bust in southern italy and germany leading to the arrest of 169 people and a seizure of more than $59 million in assets. the operation was coordinated by italian military police and conducted jointly with german police >>> and nike and the u.s. olympic committee revealing the medal ceremony uniforms on the "today" show, designed to keep the u.s. athletes warm,since most of the cer