arjun kharpal joins us on the set this morning we had some really big moves looking at alphabet, apple how much of this is the fact that that market was overcrowded? >> let's take a high-level view and put this into context. let's year a lot of the f.a.n.g. stocks were up nearly 50% over the course of the year even with the pullback they were higher than a year ago there's a sense of quocooling o, profit taking. there's no down that the tech sector does remain strong still. if you look at a lot of the companies, they have huge scale. facebook at 2 billion users, 1.3 billion iphones in the market. many of the companies are starting to monetize users in new ways that's a theme you'll see happen throughout this year there are some challenges, of course that comes from individual names, whether that's facebook and its news feed changes or rising regulatory concerns so plenty of challenges as well this year. >> looking at the tech hot board, we can put that up in a second if you look at the moves, apple outperformed relative to its competitors, even though there's been so many stories about

so what's next for the cryptocurrency joining me is arjun kharpal. volatility to start the year we had the low two, three weeks ago but recovered a bit since then >> it was a violent selloff at the start of the year. there was concern about the increasing regulation from countries, and rumors in the market that certain coins are being used to manipulate the market so overall a lot of worry about the space. that triggered the selloff we have come back. it's been trading sideways at the moment people are still cautious because people definitely got hurt in that selloff so there is caution in the market people are wondering what happens next with regulation china has clamped down hard. south korea introduced new regulation uk lawmakers are doing an inquiry into what the dangers of bitcoin are. the bank of england warning against it >> we focus on the price of bitcoin specifically in terms of the gem treneral trf 2018 versus 2017 of bitcoin selling off significantly, is that true of all cryptocurrencies or have others made gains >> so far it seems to be

arjun kharpal joins thus mous t morning in the studio. this is relatively good news >> it is relatively good news. they've been hammered by competition from facebook, stagnant user base, and the inability to draw advertisers on the platform this quarter seems to be a turning point potentially. they managed to grow the daily active user number, which is a key metric that wall street is looking at the social media companies rely on scale if you look at facebook now with 2 billion users, the reason it continues to grow so rapidly is that it is able to monetize that user base. these are very important numbers coming through from snap and the market cheered that. >> forgive me, but it is a bit of a novelty one-trick pony, isn't it the it, but ground growing the user base what more do they have i heard they will put on stickers, et cetera. what will be transformational? >> one thing that snap says it different to other properties -- actually it does have a different user base to the other social media outlets, and it's bringing new ad media to

industry will showcase the latest handheld technology and discuss the future of communications arjun kharpal joins me around the desk and has more on the big themes that will dominate the event. >> i will run you through some of the big ones. 5g is expected to be a big topic there. this year we are expected to see pretty commercial and commercialized uses of 5g technology ai as well will be another big theme. networks talking about how to use ai to automate networks and smartphone makers talking about the camera recognizing fruit and using it to translate live things all these capabilities that's what the smartphone mix will be talking about. samsung is expected to launch the galaxy s9 smartphone on sunday >> you can hardly wait >> it will be huge we'll see a slew of android devices on the show. big features, the high end phones, the capabilities of the camera, the ai and augmented reality again expected to make an appearance at the show. there's plenty to look out for some exciting interviews we'll bring you the latest next week >> i want to bring in a frequent guest of "street signs," our