forrester researchers co llin coburn and technology president bob o'donnell there.introduced a free version that targets 1.5 billion youtube users. it rolls out ahead of youtube's new subscription music product. spotify operates the biggest is a downloader in the world, but it is expanding what it offers for free to reach a targeted one billion users. coming up, apple ceo tim cook meets one-on-one with donald trump after a state dinner. we tell you what we discussed behind closed doors. and we speak to the man behind the wheel by the chinese star but -- startup horizon robotics, the chinese market of driverless cars in 2030. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ emily: more headlines from amazon this week. the company is working on yet another big bet, robots for the home. amazon has embarked on a top-secret plan to build a domestic robot. they hope to be putting the robot in employee homes by the end of the year. a rollout for consumers in 2019 could follow. and the e-commerce giant is promising to entertain bored children. it's releasing a new focus skills for alexa digital assi

bob o'donnell says the key issue is trust worthiness. >> the entire tech industry is under a spotlight that we have never seen before. that is causing people to react in ways they wouldn't have in the past. >> reporter: the bigger concern is winning over the confidence of users. so a lot at stake for appear and will facebook and for others. >> what is different here is the level of information that a lot of companies have. it is at a completely different level of detail and people are very uncomfortable and nervous about that. in palo alto, david louie abc7 news. >>> lyft is trying out a new pay in advance plan with customers. lyft sent out a beta invitation e-mail. $49 a week for a maximum of seven rides >>> silicon valley preparing for an important vip visit. most of the royal's visit is shrouded in secrecy. >> reporter: neighbors trying to get glimpse of a vip visiting silicon valley. some hadn't planned to leave so soon. abc7 news has learned that the crown prince of saudi arabia bought out the hotel for the next six nights. the hotel was given short notice of the royal visit from

bob o'donnell says the key issue is trust worthiness. >> the entire tech industry is under a spotlight that we have never seen before. that is causing people to react in ways they wouldn't have in the past. >> reporter: the bigger concern is winning over the confidence of users. so a lot at stake for appear and will facebook and for others. >> what is different here is the level of information that a lot of companies have. it is at a completely different level of detail and people are very uncomfortable and nervous about that. in palo alto, david louie abc7 news. >>> lyft is trying out a new pay in advance plan with customers. lyft sent out a beta invitation e-mail. $49 a week for a maximum of seven rides. >>> silicon valley preparing for an important vip visit. most of the royal's visit is shrouded in secrecy. >> reporter: neighbors trying to get a glimpse of a vip visiting silicon valley. some hadn't planned to leave so soon. abc7 news has learned that the crown prince of saudi arabia bought out the hotel for the next six nights. the hotel was given short notice of the royal visit fr

emily: forrester researchers: coburn and technology president bob o'donnell there.spas fight introduced a free version that targets 1.5 billion youtube users. it rolls out ahead of youtube's new subscription music product. operates the biggest music downloader in the world. coming up, tim cook meets one-on-one with donald trump after a state dinner. we tell you what we discussed behind closed doors. we speak to the man behind ofel, the chinese market driverless car's in 2030. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ emily: more headlines from amazon this week. the company is working on another big that, robots for the home. amazon has embarked on a top-secret plan to build domestic robot. the hope to be putting robot in homes by the end of the year. a rollout for consumers in 2019 could follow. the e-commerce giant is promising to entertain ford children. it's releasing a new focus skills for alexa digital assistant. plus there will be an echo. design for children. a magic word feature will make its say please when asking alexa questions. apple ceo tim cook made his way to the oval o

for more, we will bring in bob o'donnell. i will in new york, start with collin.he ad business still going strong, despite privacy concerns. what is your biggest take away? collin: strong quarter for google again. the takeaway is that google is looking pretty professional compared to some of its competitors, namely facebook, today. i think that is pretty apparent in the way that google sort of has not really said anything recently since the cambridge analytica scandal. they have sat back and said, this is all good news for us, i think, because we are the ones that look like the big guys, the more professional tech a company in this instance. emily: i didn't get off the phone call with the cfo ruth porat is we asked her about future privacy regulations, and how it could impact the business. what she had to say specifically by the new regulations coming into effect in europe. she said they had been working on compliance for 18 months. there is a robust privacy program and if they are building on it. "we feel well prepared to meet the requirements." i asked how it wo

. >> bob o'donnell can't remember when the last mass shooting happened at a tech campus.ke up call. google and youtube and others have set up a hotline to help people with the tragedy. >> make sure you stay with us at ktvu and ktvu.com and our social media platform. we'll have continuing coverage of the youtube shooting. we'll carry live the news conference that begins at 9:00 this morning. >>> all right. we're also learning some new information this morning about a police shooting in petaluma, police say the stand-off in shooting happened at the vineyard apartments near lakeville highway in petaluma. investigators say they were called shortly before noon. when they arrived they encountered a suicidal man with a gun. they were forced to open fire had the man pointed the gun at them. he was taken to hospital, no word on his condition, but no police officers were injured. >>> our time is 6:42, this morning at 8:00, a grim search team at meant see tow county will look -- montecito county when a woman drove her children off a cliff. >>> this is one of the mothers at a check o

(steve) joining us now to talk about the security of tech companies is bob o'donnell with technalysis research. bob-- do you think companies will start making their offices more secure? lawrence were 0. >> you see all the different ways people can potentially get in. the reality is skaurt at these places good. there were armed security guards at youtube. these things exist and it's difficult to completely avoid these situations. so i think that fundamentally it's more of a psychological concern. at this point it's physical. rain today. clouds but no plenty of lawrence were lawrence were plenty of clouds but no rain today. that will soon change as a major storm is headed our way. highs today were a little cooler but still comfortable and in the 50s near the coast with 60s and a few low 70s well inland. it will stay dry tonight with increasing clouds. on the satellite image you can see a potent storm with a stream of moisture coming all the way from the tropics. that storm will begin with light showers tomorrow but turn to heavy rain by friday. we are expecting as much as 4 to 7 inches

. >> reporter: tech expert bob o'donnell can't recall the last time a shooting happened on a tech campusshooting now serves as a wake-up call. google and youtube are vowing to help their employees through this tragedy. in fact they have set up a help line to help employees. in mountain view, ktvu fox 2 news. >> thank you. >>> here is the question of the day for you. following the workplace shooting at youtube, do you feel that your workplace has enough security measures in place in the event of an active shooter situation? yes or no? well, so far in the voting, 23% of you say yes. 77% of you say no. keep voting. let us know what you think by voting on the ktvu twitter page. you can also comment on our ktvu facebook page as well. >>> we're now hearing that san francisco firefighters that supervisor aaron peskin was intoxicated the night he criticized the fire department. internal memos at the fire departments indicate that firefighters at the scene on st. patrick's day say she smelled alcohol on peskin. one memo says the supervisor was in the middle of the street yelling and waving his ha

o'donnell has more from new york. >> reporter: good morning. a look back at the life and impact of barbara bush. we'll talk with bob schieffer, who covered the bush family for more than 40 years. plus, susan page who is writing a biography about the former first lady and has seen some of her diaries. gayle discusses the arrest of two black men in a philadelphia starbucks and the decision to have all employees attend bias training. all that plus the eye-opener, your world in 90 seconds. we'll see you at 7:00. >> thank you. >>> an activist hedge fund wants facebook to set up a risk oversight committee and is asking other shareholders to back the plan. trillium owns about 73,000 shares of the menlo park-based company. facebook of course has been under scrutiny since the disclosure of a data breach by the political consulting firm cambridge analytica. facebook is introducing new global privacy controls meantime with the company under big pressure from european regulators. joining with us details, kcbs radio's financial reporter jason brooks. >> reporter: good morning. facebook will start asking european users this week