lines are starting to me sara taylor. clinics we p.j.s and firefox all have one thing in common their source code is open meaning everyone can work on the code but recently major tech companies have several big open source projects how will that impact the open source space will it become less open our topic today unshift. open source software is unique in that it lets anyone access and develop at source code the open source movement emerged as the anti thesis to commercial software businesses tech giants tend to keep their proprietary code secret companies like microsoft sell expensive user licenses of its patented code the company's founder bill gates even referred to open source projects as a new form of communism now microsoft has shelled out 6500000000 euros for good hap a key open source software development platform and i.b.m. recently bought open source software developer redhat for a staggering 30000000000 euros making it i.b.m.'s biggest takeover ever which impact will this have on the open source community or t

. >> one of the problems sara and susan suggested, this supposed september 9th call was supposedly at one point a response to ambassador taylorind of crazy to hold out military aid in exchange for getting this meeting. if sondland didn't even have this call which he then is later supposed to have come back and said, oh, the president said no quid pro quo, it further weakens the case there was a clear message from the white house there was no quid pro quo. >> let me get jeffrey to react to the senator from louisiana, going back and forth whether there was ukrainian involvement in the 2016 election, said there was, along with russia and the ukranians didn't and now said they did. listen to what he just said a little while ago. >> do you think that the ukranians interfered in the 2016 election? >> i do. i do. the suggestion has been made that ukraine's hands are clean and ukraine's aren't. it is clear to me ukraine did meddle in the u.s. election. >> he's not only doubling down, tripling down on that accusation. >> when the history of this period is made, all of the otherwise distinguished republicans who have demeaned themselve

taylor: to play off of that, if the stories are monetizing well, do we expect the next logical move to be to go overseas? sarayou will see more monetization from instagram in general. the problem is users are increasingly migrating to the ephemeral format and not posting as much on the main page. the main feed has ads that are much more expensive, so the overall advertising price has been depressed because of this shift to stories. maybe once it becomes more natural, you will see that improve over time. taylor: eric, is this a good sign that, as long as they are monetizing it and ad revenue is rising, is that really what matters? eric: it does appear that it would cannibalize some spending from the instagram newsfeed. , which takes a higher price, currently. that really has not happened, and advertisers are just generally increasing spending. taylor: eric, do these things actually work? i see ads, but are people clicking on them? >> first off, facebook, instagram, they have great tools for advertisers. when you look at attribution, they really are ahead of the pack, in a lot of ways. you can type back if some

sara haines for some "pop news". >> thank you, george. good morning, good morning. we begin with some big birthday celebrations over the weekend. first up, tayloreartradio's jingle ball in madison square garden and after she celebrated with just a few celebrity friends like halsey, gigi hadid, same as my birthday every year, and the guys from "queer eye" and sean comb, aka diddy was busy throwing the party of the year to celebrate the big 5-0. his guest list included beyonce and jay-z, kim kardashian and kanye west. pharrell williams and so many more who were all treated to some dance moves from diddy himself as they partied all night. ♪ i love a dance solo. when it's your party you can make people watch you dance. welcome to next year's party. okay. >>> and now we are less than four days away from the final chapter in the epic "star wars" saga. over the weekend, director j.j. abrams teamed up with the super popular video game fortnite to unveil a brand-new clip of the highly anticipated film. now they've never done anything like this before. see that guy talking in the black shirt? i can't tell which one he is actually. >> in the middle. >> th

and now sara haines is bringing to us, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] >> good morning, happy friday. we begin with an early swift-mas present. you told you in "pop news" yesterday that taylor farm." take a listen. ♪ in the town kids are dreaming of sleighs and warm and safe and wait to see a blanket of snow ♪ >> so the song already is number one on itunes and it has a really special meaning. taylor grew up on a christmas tree farm named pine ridge farm in pennsylvania. the video was made up of all the childhood videos and sure to keep us rocking around the christmas tree all month long. i thought it was so sweet to see the insight into family videos. i thought at first it was stock footage and looked closer. that's little t. swift. cute. >> that's how you -- >> that's me opening the door and paying attention. >> just curious. >> now to a "pop news" exclusive. there are less than three weeks left, wow, in 2019 and as we get ready to ring in the new year we're excited to announce the l.a. performers who will be taking the stage during this year's new year's rockin' eve. okay. are you ready? paula abdul, kelsea ballerini, blanco brown, ciara, dan + shay, dua lipa, ava max, me