so if you buy it on amazon, it makes amazon stronger.u want to buy a book from someone who contributes to the economy of its country, so that there are hospitals, roads and so on, then you should buy it from someone who pays its taxes in france. it's simple. >> reporter: an amazon representative told newshour that as for the french demand for back taxes, “we dispute and will always contest this request,” and, “amazon pays all applicable taxes in every jurisdiction in which we operate and always will.” but doesn't amazon have a positive role to play? people all over the world can buy french books. >> ( translated ): when amazon arrived, it revolutionized the logistics of the book business, and i think that's been beneficial. but as a citizen, i have a problem with amazon. it doesn't behave with a sense of civic spirit, and in france we care about this. >> reporter: despite amazon's problems in france, not everyone sees it as all bad. author pierre assouline's many books are sold on amazon. >> i know, a lot of-- a lot of people in a few pl

and speaking of amazon, talking to the latest star of an amazon original series, jason lee at post nineer this hour. the dow as kayla said up 31, apple trying to break through 120. back in a moment. >>> welcome back to "squawk alley." lending club and alibaba partnering up to provide financing to small u.s. businesses buying parts from chinese suppliers. the move comes as founder and chairman jack ma of alibaba has been pushing to enter markets beyond its home market in china. renaud laplanche the ceo of lending club and joins us this morning out west. good to see you. >> hi, good morning. >> first of all, tell us how this partnership came about? how long were you guys in talks for? >> we've been working on this for a few months. we had the pilot program. we tested things out and so it takes a while to get there, but we are really excited to have launched the service in production and really u.s. based small businesses to more efficiently enter into transactions and buy goods from china and finance this from lending club and sell goods in the u.s. and pay back the credit. it's a program

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>> i would say amazon's position with prime is pretty remarkable. would probably put them in the safe camp. i think google, with the profitability of the search business and this insane foot print of android, i would put them in the safe camp, too. on facebook, i think they're working through an interesting challenge. they have lost the trust of their user. if you ask someone, do you have certainty who is seeing your facebook content, my guess is 90% of the people would say no. that creates anxiety. i think it made room for snapchat, which we are an investor in. even, a company like nextdoor, which we are also invested in. because that lack of trust limits what you can do next. >> and apple? >> i think apple's only problem is android. and google. and google's willingness to be aggressive. apple should have paid anything. flat out. if you're going to pay $3 billion for a headphone company, $2 billion for a maps company is a no-brainer. i also think they should have found a way to broadcast. i have a deep respect for tony fidel. >> should apple buy tw

amazon, i think, it you never want to put anything past amazon.nk amazon is trying to push distribution out as close to the consumers possible sling get same-day delivery. if you can make things happen same-day, by telling you to wait for two days and it will be on your door come or go to get up at radioshack, some commendation is likely. the problem is that everyone likes the better performing radioshack stores, located in the best, highest traffic areas. there probably aren't more than a couple of thousand of those. i don't think a combination of those solutions is going to be the end result. it will be one better -- one bidder buying 500 stores. >> i would've the debt wisely do this. they said they wanted to close 1000 stores, the debtholders would let them do that. i wonder if they saw some value, or because we are seeing that this might be sprint/radioshack or brookstone/radioshack, that by keeping the name alive, they keep the cheap releases and some value -- cheaper leases and some value. >> i'm not an expert, but i readings in their financ

it that they will deliver amazon packages?> it is some ways off. >> how long? >> a decade. but delivering to the center, where you could pick up the package. rural areas would be easy as well. warehouse to warehouse, we can do that today. once you get delivering to an arbitrary front doorstep, that is a little hard. as the instantaneous gratification movement takes off, we could start to get the next generation of mailboxes where certain homes end up with well-defined machine-readable delivery boxes. >> you are saying this is going to happen. this will happen. maybe it is a decade out but it will happen. >> it is happening now in limited ways. dhl has an experiment in germany where they are delivering pharmaceuticals to an island. you are going to start to see it happening in places with small, high value packages delivered to safe areas. >> is there any reason it will not happen? >> regulations. in the u.s., it is not legal. >> i know the faa is considering changing the rules. how are those conversations going? >> they are go

didn't amazon run an experiment this fall in new york with an amazon store?i think the, you know, big picture is, everybody has apple envy. so, you know, at first when apple had their store, no one believed apple could possibly make a retail presence work. and truly it has. and so when you look at that, if i were sony i would try do that. look at the nike store. amazon, absolutely makes sense because it has dual purpose. not only walk-in traffic but distribution. >> yeah. this strikes me as being intriguing and yet somewhat dangerous. i mean, look at amazon earnings, one of the things that maybe wasn't talked about as much as their sort centers, facilities for sorting goods closer to the customer, were a big reason they had as much of a profit as they did because they were able to get their suppliers to ship product closer to the customer for them. i can see that. a thousand is a lot. neighborhoods change. they have to keep on top of all those locations. isn't there a risk if they take on that many locations? >> i don't think a thousand is a lot. i mean, that

you have netflix, you have amazon tv. how impressed have you been with some of the original content on some of these other outlets? >> if you are a writer, the more vendors that there are for content, the better. obviously, netflix is on fire with "house of cards" and "orange is the new black." amazon has the gary trudeau show, "alpha house." nontraditional tv is great. >> how about you? are you a binge watcher? >> yes. not just of new stuff. i am a binge watcher of old stuff. i can spend a weekend watching "the office." all nine seasons. by sunday night i have done nothing but watch 200 episodes of "the office." >> is this the golden age of television? is content better than it's ever been before? >> i think content is better than it has ever been before. most television isn't very good, there is just more on the high-end now of what is very good. >> how much more competition is there for writers like you, show runners like you? >> i just don't see it that way. if you have something good, it's going to be done. >> i have

you can request an invitation to buy it on amazon if you're an amazon prime member.ou get a discounted price of $99. that's about half price. >> thank you, michael. >>> it's gorgeous now. but things are changing for the better in terms of what we need around here. >> meteorologist sandhya patel joins us with the accuweather forecast. >> it's great for the water supply, that's the upcoming rain for several days. right now out here it's really quite mild. we have two records to tell you about. let's check out live doppler 7 hd. spring-like in mountainview. 71 degrees. previous record was 70 set back in 2009. salinas tied the previous record of 78 degrees. despite the fact that we have a lot of cloud cover. here's a gorgeous view from the emeryville camera. sunset at 5:36. it's still comfortable. san francisco, oakland, san carlos, san jose in the mid-60s. look at morgan hill. the high in morgan hill was 75 degrees. half moon bay, 59. east bay hills camera, some peeks of sun through the clouds and santa rosa to fairfield to livermore in the 60s. it will feel like winter

amazon really also sees that future. they see this feature off videogames as becoming increasingly networked and social. that was sort of the future that they bought into with us. >> fun fact. the first story i wrote at techcrunch is how google would avoid ruining twitch. the issues gaming -- gamers had at the time, on reddit and twitter, was the content id system. someone streaming play and playing their own music. a curated experience. they were worried that content id would he use all of their videos and ruined the appeal for their audience. content id isn't necessarily a problem any -- any more now but as you guys are a multibillion-dollar enterprise now it seems like it will be a big target. are you guys letting people distribute copyrighted material? how will you guys deal with that? >> if you look at the situation they let you use -- upload videos through websites. figuring -- we are in a fortunate position where because we have a very specific set of content we encourage, because we cannot limit that and stick wi

>> we have amazon prime. one annual price and a few years ago we started adding video streaming to it and then we started doing original content. so it's just sort of you know one foot in front of the other charlie. we started out in books, but what we're finding is it's so fun for us to just do another kind of story telling. transparent is the amazing example of it. >> it really is amazing, jeffrey tambor. i was so excited to talk to you because what you do on that screen to me is so amazing. and when you looked at that script did you have trepidation about doing it and i'm wondering people's reaction to you in this role. >> i think i made my decision in 15 minutes. i got off the plane, i was here to do a talk show in l.a. in 15 minutes -- i threw myself at these people. i'm 70 years old and these roles don't come along. as we were talking, people come up to me on the street now and want to talk about the show. there's usually a try partied reachlks one, i didn't know what to think of the show which i think

amazon? brookstone? have this story next comment and you can find on bloomberg.com, apple tv, and amazon fire. ♪ ♪ cory: you are watching "bloomberg west," will refocus on the future of business and innovation. radioshack has more than 4000 stores in the u.s. that is four times as many stores as asked by. on the verge of a bankruptcy filing, radioshack in deep, deep water. could amazon be coming in to throw them a life raft? glamorous long beach california, joining us from there is michael. this radioshack story, it really is a technology company focused on bringing technology to the masses and has been for a long time, and they have just fallen on their face. michael: the emphasis is on the masses, and radioshack has morphed into more of a convenience store, so they are a great place for a hobbyist to go, so if you want to build a ham radio, of course you go there, but they really have devolved into the place where grandma buys hearing aid batteries for grandpa, and the problem i think that they had wit

i'm a prime subscribers to amazon.everything there for the simple reason that it gets shipped within two days for a very small fee and i don't like to have to go shopping anymore. convince me i shouldn't do that anymore. >> i'm not going to convince you you shouldn't do that, but the fact that you can basically buy anything on-line at the lowest prices, 10 to 15% below you'll find anywhere else. >> on your site. >> for $50 annual membership fee. >> i pay a $50 annual membership fee cheaper than paying for prime, do i pay shipping fees? >> free shipping over $35 and we have about 10 million products for sale on the website. >> are you warehousing this stuff. >> open warehousing consumables, dog food, paper towels, that stuff. we can deliver basically overnight with free shipping and the rest of the products from third party mar chants. >> how many days do i have to wait? >> in terms of the ship speed? >> yep. >> overnight on consumables for the most part and everything else will come in three to five days. but because t

new hope for indigenous people in peru's embattled amazon region. china gets its skates on -- or its skis -- in the race for another olympic bid. it's now been over nine months since the mass kidnapping of hundreds of school girls in chibok, northern nigeria, brought the terrorist organisation boko haram to the world's attention. overnight, the hashtag "bring back our girls" campaign became a global rallying cry for a rescue which then was never forthcoming. instead, boko haram was able to tighten its grip on the north unimpeded. but whilst the girls' parents may have lost faith in their government's response, they haven't given up hope of seeing their children again. >> they meet here every day. their rallying cry -- "bring back our girls." among them are lawyers, doctors, window cleaners, and taxi drivers. they're united by the determination not to let the kidnapped schoolgirls of chibok be forgotten. some of the meetings are attended by parents of the missing schoolgirls. rebecca and samuel yaga's daughter was among the pupils abducted. they are

>> amazon is taking a look at this. amazon takes a look at a lot of things. it is a company that's corporate coulter is about trying new ideas, throwing things against the wall. one of the things that is a big push across the business with amazon is to get closer to the customer. once they agree to start paying state and local sales taxes they can open operations in the places they can avoid. they move for film and centers closer to big urban areas. -- for film and centers closer to big urban areas. -- fulfillment centers closer to big urban areas. as might be a way for them to expand her -- their amazon blocker business. >> cory johnson. buying assets, selling them. that is just one of the areas that will keep bank earnings up despite the slump we have seen in trading. we will talk about the bank outlet with thomas michaud. ♪ >> it is 15 minutes past the hour. chinese e-commerce strong -- giant, ally baba offering u.s. customers loans through lending clubs. as mrs. can apply for short-term credit for his much as $300,000. ally baba wants to reach some 2 bill

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does this help amazon with the cost issue?hink there's a lot of cost in front of amazon when you think about their growth internationally and the density of their capex they have in the u.s. versus the opportunities internationally, so they said they're going to continue to spend against the large tams. near term stuff in this initiative we think they will be prudent and they always show you proof of when they pull back what the margins can do like we saw last quarter. they will keep proof of concept. >> finally, bob, while we have you, hope you won't mind a question on twitter. >> sure. >> outspoken as you've been about costolo's tenure your question today is whether or not investors are getting into a, quote, facebook moment. >> yes. >> regarding twitter. what does that mean? >> go back six quarters or so most investors were negatively predisposed to facebook. stock sat at about 20 bucks and most investors thought they would never monetize mobile. too small, no room for adds and right now there's a big bearish isn'tment on t

amazon amazon's ceo obviously sees this as the future.a way, by teasing drone delivery last year, put pressure on the faa to get the ball rolling. now we have a framework that amazon is left out of the picture for now. what do you make of that? >> that's a tricky one. i think amazon finds itself in a funny place. i will say it's not all that fair to them. i think that what amazon is tampaing is years off. nonetheless, we need that innovation and that sort of drive to really come one plans that work in long-range situations to drive the whole market. unfortunately, the mprm as it was released yesterday in effect ignores amazon as you say. treating them as a different class where you're carrying parcels and packages. and subject to a different set of rules -- >> isn't that necessary? one of the issues is a line of sight requirement. the operator must be able to the drone because they can apparently go rogue. there was one incident at theis who with -- the white house with a government employee intelligence officer, who lost control of the d

they're crazy for you bear customers to amazon platform.they have this other line of business a company called audible that is the major audio book market. where you get to decide whether or not you let them lock up your books, if you make your audio books available you have to allow amazon to lock your book. and they are 90% of the market. and they are the only ones allowed to provide audio books to itunes. so if you ever buy the idea book on itunes, it is all locks to amazon. it is not like amazon said you know, we've got all these people who work for our company and a lot of them are super cutthroat hypercompetitive. we will make the work for other divisions and the ones that are patchouli scented, easy-going they will work for audible. amazon is like a normal curve of cutthroat business activities and they have the same proportion of cutthroat business people work in their audible divisions and other divisions except that audible has suppliers by much shorter, curly or hairs. so it's really only a matter of time until days start to turn

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that's one of the problems for amazon. gerri: it is also fun and games

sponsoring g2 eight instead of an amazon store. >> so amazon sells theme keys. it sells xbox points. amazon has the attitude -- and this is one of the things going back to your very 1st question, what can we do to censor the consumer? and if doing something is a proconsumer move we we will probably find a way to make it a win-win. amazon is not the kind of company that believes in trying to shut everyone else out and create this thing when no one else ever gets to sell anything to a customer. we aren't people he was in that. i that. i don't think we we will ever been someone from the site for working with another game store. i think that our.of view is, we want to offer the best possible experience, and hopefully choose the experience that we offer. we believe in if it is good for the gamer, the broadcaster in, in the long run it is good for us. one of the things i noticed and it's pretty obvious, league of legends 140,000 viewers. the law until after that. in the long run do you worry that you are over reliant? how do you guys think of the wales versus the long

amazon really also sees that future. they see this feature off videogames as becoming increasingly networked and social. that was sort of the future that they bought into with us. >> fun fact. the first story i wrote at techcrunch is how google would avoid ruining twitch. the issues gaming -- gamers had at the time, on reddit and twitter, was the content id system. someone streaming play and playing their own music. a curated experience. they were worried that content id would he use all of their videos and ruined the appeal for their audience. content id isn't necessarily a problem any -- any more now but as you guys are a multibillion-dollar enterprise now it seems like it will be a big target. are you guys letting people distribute copyrighted material? how will you guys deal with that? >> if you look at the situation they let you use -- upload videos through websites. figuring -- we are in a fortunate position where because we have a very specific set of content we encourage, because we cannot limit that and stick wi

amazon i.d.s. >> we're excited about the potential ways we can work with amazon. think there is a lot of really obvious places where there is synergy between the two companies, synergy is a loaded word in this situation, but there is. a lot of synergy. our attitude towards it is not this transaction happened therefore we have to do x, y and z integrations. it is now we have the opportunity, now we can put our engineering team in contact with their engineering team and see can we use aws? now we can put our music licensing team in touch with their music licensing team and see if we can secure -- we have opportunities that we'll see if they make sense for both companies or not. we're not going to force anything though. >> those integrations, those are on like the back end of things. people don't see for maybe the aws improves the experience overall. i think some people are concerned that twitch is going to become -- people go on twitch already to see someone play games, see if it is right for them to buy. are you going to keep going with that idea and become like a

i had thought of amazon as in partnership with writers. and for a company to try to make a business point by turning its back on -- i have sold, through amazon, millions of books. i have contributed mightily to their bottom line. i would've thought they would see me as an asset. me and other writers have brought people to their site in droves. and now they have turned on us. it is, to say the least, a puzzling strategy for a business to turn on its assets. i would love to have a conversation with jeff bezos about the self-destructive nature of this particular strategy. emily: amazon is arguing that books must be cheaper in this environment where there are so many media distractions. do you have any sympathy for their argument? malcolm: complete sympathy for it. i just don't understand why, in order to get to that preferred outcome, they have chosen to screw over the people who bring revenue to their business and customers to their site. emily: do you need a traditional publisher for your next book? is there another way? malcolm: is this an

one of the area is amazon content.n studios is making a show that is not inexpensive, but it is worth it. it is worth it to our customers and crime members and worth it to bring tv to the new golden age, which i think is really happening. >> our friend charlie rose cannot talk to jeff bezos without asking about drums. he gave us a hint. --without asking about drones. >> the regulatory pieces are going slower than i anticipated. the faa at their hands fu trying to regulatell --hands full trying to regulate drones. >> they are looking at radioshack to showcase this. the highest-paid female ceo in the u.s. may not be who you think. she runs and found aroma therapeutic. it took $38 million -- he took on $38 million last year. now she is leading the way in artificial intelligence. olivia sterns sat down with her and the latest invention, the robot with dreams of being human. >> how are you feeling? >> actually i'm dealing with a little existential crisis here. and i a line? do i exist? >> these are the types of questions th

amazon and google.ng us now is the executive director of the small uav coalition, a lobbying group working for the likes of amazon, google x, and also a senior policy advisor. what is in these rules that is good and what is that? >> the fact we have rules is in of itself great. it gives us a platform upon which to build. i would say there are problems to the extent that the rules will prohibit operations commercial operations of drones when there are personnel on the ground not associated with the project, which essentially will shift all commercial usage. it is a real problem. there are also some suggestions that there will not be an ability to operate outside the linux eight, which means it has to be a visual i hear the actual person has to be able to see -- so the very notion of the amazon drone that brin -- that brings a box and drops at your front door and hopefully does not clip your poodle, that is out with this proposal. >> yes. exactly. what most people believe and i think is true is that autom

i'm sure that his wife amazon wants to look at the books. -- why amazon wants to look at the books. >y johnson -- our own cory johnson. >> when we come back, oil it is back above $50 in the united states, does that mean we saw the bottom at $43? ♪ >> we are profiling hedge fund managers. we will be speaking with jason buttrick. ♪ >> i will bring you top headlines from around the world. in australia surprise interest rate cut. they cut its bench rate to a record low. they said australia's growth would be weaker for a longer time. australian stocks surged to an almost seven-year high. the australian dollar had a 5.5 year low. the german chancellor does not expect a quick resolution over talks about the greek bailout. she expects the talks to drag on until the current round of funding runs out in the spring. the new greek government come -- appears to be backing down from earlier demand that the eurozone ramp down its debt. eight former top u.s. officials are urging president obama to send weapons to the ukrainian forces. they called the united states and nato to send $3 billion of weapo

those are all the parts of amazon that amazon could get away with because they are amaz amazon. >> rightne big difference, though, between these two companies. ali baba is in the business of -- amazon for all intents and purposes is a big logistics company too. they did $29 billion in sales in q 4. outstanding. the problem was they only made 220 million dollar in net income on that. i think if american investors are going to start comparing the two, i don't think it makes a whole heck of a lot of sense. they need to get business to business. they need people that are 2000 miles away to transact -- >> can i ask you this? do a lot of chinese have land lines in rural places? maybe this is a totally different democrgraphic sort of thing that we don't know about. >> there's so many other cheap plays. >> all things being equal, do you want to see ali baba going into the phone market? absolutely not. the main reason why i like them is i don't think the chinese government is going to let them fail. simple as that. >> time now for pops and drops. big moves of the day. drop for mcdonald's. >> that

are you also hosting an amazon web service? what we've found is we've seen such an immediate influx that we're focusing on scaling the business to handle those sort of traffic. >> what are you doing for valentine's day? >> i'm spending it here in san francisco with my wife who is in the room next door. >> invisible girlfriend cofounder. that does it. catch us monday through friday at 10:00 and 3:00 on the west coast. or 1:00 and 6:00 back east. we'll see you tomorrow. [captioning made possible by bloomberg television] ♪ . . ♪ >> the following is a paid program. the opinions and views expressed do not reflect those of bloomberg lp, its affiliates or its employees. >> this program is a paid a program of u.s. gold and civil reserve -- civil reserve.

you bring in the competitor amazon. interesting prediction with radioshack down to its knees and basically pink sheeted and going bankrupt you have all these stores from the hamptons to beforebeverly hills to edgewater, new jersey, where amazon could come in and scoop up some of them, maybe sprint could do the same and use them as retail operations and go see type of stores where they possibly could show products. what do you make of that potential. >> that is interesting. radioshack is proud company. it started as radio hobby it store and ubiquitous around the country. as things change, radio and technology changed but also internet came in and disintermeet eighted their business model. can buy anything at radioshack for less money and get it as much as fast. they weren't able. they got into cell phones. that solved their problem for a while. now they really have no place to turn. you have all this great real estate with very small box as they call it, a few thousand square feet sizes that fit perfectly with amazon typ

new drone proposals, what it could mean for companies like amazon and google, thinking about what goes up in the sky, next. ♪ >> i'm cory johnson, this is "bloomberg west," here's a check of our headlines. greece's government requests a -- an extension of its loan agreement for six more months. it's a step that could ease the standoff over greece's financing. the positive outflow is greek banks are celebrating. the u.s. subsidiary of swiss food giant nestle will stop putting artificial ingrowth greed yents in candy. instead, they'll use natural ingredients for 250 products including butterfingers, crunch bars and baby ruth. there's a change in china's market, the top smart phone vendor last year edging out samsung. but in the last quarter, news gets worse for samsung. they've fallen behind apple and two other companies. skies getting a lot more crowded. the f.a.a. released guidelines for repeating commercial drones into air space. peter, the rules are not as stringent as some people might have thought they would be. >> that's right. a lighter touch, at least that's what the f.a.a. is t

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it is good news that amazon continues to find areas to invest in.s is making a show at this quality level is not an expensive but it is worth it. it is worth it to our prime members. it is worth it to bring tv into that new golden age. which i think is really happening. >> our friend charlie rose cannot [indiscernible] >> the regulatory t is going slower. the faa has their hands full trying to figure out how to regulate drones. >> amazon is considering doing more than just a pedestrian drone to look at radioshack stores. from drones to artificial intelligence. the highest-paid female ceo in the u.s. may not be who you think. martine rothblatt, took in $38 million and now they are leading the way in artificial intelligence. we sat down with her and her robot. >> how are you feeling? >> i am feeling -- mi alive, do i actually exist, will i die? >> they are trying to tackle these questions. >> this is a proof of concept robot based on the personality of my wife. >> five years ago they created bina 48. >> martine is my love. >> this will be mankind's bi

but we have great franchises that we built overtime e-commerce e-commerce, amazon prime kindle and amazonvices, and then also always investing and looking for the next. investing heavily in video. >> won't make profits because we'll always find better investments. >> i don't know about always that's a long time. >> always is a long time. >> a long time. well jack ma's longing at 011 00 -- 100. >> they grill him. he puts himself -- so willing to put himself out there. >> like russert and dan rather when dan rather was attacking nixon. >> exactly. >> reminds you of that. >> how great are you? pretty great. >> you're a genius. >> with all of that -- >> edward bernstein. >> we don't hear from him a lot. when we do hear from him, take -- >> look, the stock's coming back. so is netflix. >> very good quarter. >> waiting for someone to say oil going up buy tesla. >> vegas, continues to be an issue. metrics going the wrong direction. wynn down 3% last night. 1.20 misses 1.43. what do you do here? >> i don't know. the party doesn't seem to want gambling. chinese -- out of nowhere communists? what a

amazon makes his entry on the top five list. amazon was just being founded in 1994.pple on the list as well. walmart still on top, dwarfing the rest. >> we are hearing a theme here. the analysts think they will maintain that position given we are seeing generational and structural shifts. >> if you look at the sheer size of walmart, it would be difficult for the others to catch up. it has to execute better and continue to grow. earlier today, we talked to robin lewis. he is optimistic for walmart's prospects. >> i believe walmart will still be on that list because they understand how they have to evolve their business. they finally got this on the channel concept and are moving quickly in that regard. they have the potential to squash amazon. >> really? >> when their ceo says we don't have 4500 stores we have 4500 distribution points this is what bezos has been driving for. yes to get distribution points. >> a provocative idea that walmart can squash amazon. he thinks successful retailers will have to have presence everywhere in the future. >> thank you so much. comi

>> because they limit amazon's delivery strategy. federal aviation administration's proposed rules require drones weigh 55 pounds or less, fly at 100 miles an hour or slower and at 500 feet or lower. the rules also mandate the drone remain in sight of the operators or, and that -- operator, and that's where amazon objects. in response to the faa announcement, amazon -- in a statement -- says, quote: the faa's proposed rules could take one or two years to be adopted and, based on the proposal, even then those rules wouldn't allow prime air to operate in the united states. the faa needs to begin and expeditiously complete the formal process to address the needs of our business and, ultimately, our customers. amazon adds that the it is prepared to deploy where it has the regulatory support it needs. in other words, outside 06 the united states. -- of the united states. the faa says it designed these rules for farmers observing their crops, realtors to capture aerial shots of property and universities to conduct research. the faa has ini

alibaba is beating amazon.ing "market makers" right here on bloomberg television. ♪ >> alibaba is giving amazon a is cut. they will begin using drones to deliver tea in china. jeff bezos has been laying out his vision of drones and delivery for years but the company has yet to push through regulatory hurdles. so what will the drone delivery market look like? let ask our guest host of the hour, jeff clavier. you actually invest in drones. what is your company do and why? >> drone the is based in san francisco. it's the first flat -- flight control system for drones. it's a piece of software that allows you, say you are a farmer in the midwest sending his drone over a cornfield, he's getting instantly a map of the field to see were he can use pesticides and fertilizers. by using drones, he can cut used by 40% and increased yield up to 15%. what drone deploy does is build a piece of software that automatically sends the drones and flies around the field, gets the images and sends them to your ipod or computer. >>

if amazon wants the u.s. speed up approval for drone tests jeff bezos this morning. >> slower than i would've anticipated. we always knew that. the faa has their hands full trying to figure out how to regulate drones. >> amazon is limited to testing remote deliveries outside of the u.s. do you want to know if your partner will cheat on you? you can check the length of his or her fingers apparently according to a new study. people with the right ring finger that is much longer than the index finger of the same hand are more likely to cheat. >> it is different if you look at your hand from the inside or outside. >> my husband is all good. all set. the studies as people with longer ring fingers have extra testosterone. check it. >>matt's girlfriend should watch out. >> staples announcing this morning it will buy office depot for $6.3 billion bow to pressure from star board to make a deal. that will reduce the office supply industry to just one. who buys office supplies from brick and mortar stores anyway? it is

amazon has similar upside.es that they continue to show the sales growth that they have shown recently and also that the margins structure convinces people that there's more to come. apple is a little different. apple has incredible momentum right now. the apple pay, apple watch should do very well. apple the company i think in 2016 will do well. the stock is going to face tough comparisons then. i think one of the key things about apple is because it's the largest company in the history of the world and because it trades at a below market multiple and because current momentum is so strong if apple is struggling to reach new highs and the whole market is going to likely be struggling. so i think apple over the next year or so will probably do fine relative to the market. next year, who knows. >> backing out from some of the tech names as well i'm curious if you're still bullish on the home builders the financials which have had an up and down recent period as well some health care names. is it the case -- in tr