liz: carlos slim has infused about $40 billion into your company. that puts in that much money, he wants to see a return. when are you guys going to ipo? >> carlos slim invested about $40 million in the middle of last year. we have a great partnership with him in latin america preloading on all of the devices, selling the advertising in the region, and we continue part of the continued growth strategy to add more users, engage them, the new newsfeed, continuing to build the advertising business and sell more and more music, with that we think an ipo is a great ambition for the company. i think we are at least 12 months away, but we are doing everything we can to have a lot of great choices. liz: android, is the new app available for both ios and android? >> auto shazaming is only available on ios, but we're working on android. that functionality is only ios right now. liz: what phone do you use? >> iphone 5s. i also have a galaxy four. liz: when you look at the android, it is so much bigger than the iphone. why do you go with the iphone first? >> yo

what is important here is that john malone has succeeded in getting a dutch telecom where carlos slims big movement a couple of months ago where carlos slim was trying to buy kp end -- kpn. what you seeing is that global ,ompanies see a lot of value potentially unlock value and european telcos. whether that is wireless or fixed line, they are looking for customers. they were looking for an opportunity to compete someplace where competition is perhaps a little softer. you see this in the u.s. market with at&t. competition is going to heat up in the u.s. market. at&t may be facing some sort of price war with sprint, with verizon. they are looking to expand into europe, get a hold of some sort of 4g network. one potential at&t target is e.e., the venture between orange and deutsche telekom. cash is still relatively cheap. some of these companies have a lot of it. if you look at what is happening in terms of debt financing and interest rates staying low, companies that are on the move that want to make an acquisition have a short amount of time before interest rates start to spike at maki

what is interesting about this deal is that malone appears to have succeeded where carlos slim couldn't when he was making a play. kpm is more of a wireless company, but what you see is american and south american companies make plays for european telcos in part because the competition in the home market is heating up. also because what is happening in europe with the expansion of 4g, it is an opportunity. there are opportunities for growth here. the question of who buys what and when and do they get regulatory approval, which brings us back to davos and conversations that randall stephenson had with the eu commissioner, what else did they discuss and is there something else on the block for at&t? potentially e.e. in the u.k. >> it has been an active quite some time and continues to demonstrate that there is more to come. thank you very much indeed. let's turn our attention to the emerging markets. em stocks fell to their lowest level in more than four months today. currencies once again under pressure. manus cranny joins us to put this into context. taper etc.? -- fed, or is it politic

this is a business that is backed by carlos slim. how involved is he getting in this.hat have you learned about him and what he thinks about the future of tv and broadcasting? him, i not even met just know him as the owner of the company. i don't anticipate meeting him soon because he would have to find me. we will be going from multiple locations. no one will ever know where the broadcasts are coming from. this is what i'm taking from the old wolfman jack. all of us knew that he was broadcasting from somewhere but we did not know where. of whatid get an idea this platform would be like. i was on a book tour and larry was on my schedule and i had not paid attention. larry, what i'm doing. he said, i am on the internet now. this is where i need to be. we worked out the contract and i told them that i was leaving and going off the grid and they said, that will not be a problem. in fact, that will end up being the show. one reason i like being off the grid. >> where does the show follow on your list of priorities? people talk about you going back into politics, running fo

. >> mayor bloomberg, carlos slim. a lot of people have joined. they have not only given money. they have lent their voice, talk to other people. 2013 was a good year in some ways. it is the third year. they have had no cases. that was very impressive. we have two new outbreaks in syria and somalia. we generally expected about one a year. that was a bit disappointing. the ongoing challenge, the big challenge is nigeria and pakistan. nigeria has happens many cases. we are rushing to get things right in nigeria to get it done before the unrest around the 2015 election causes a distraction from the help activity. we are close on that one. in pakistan, even the last few days, there have been tragic killings. >> what are they about? >> the polio program has been demonized as a plot of westerners to do something bad. sterilize women. almost as though it has a bad intent. truth is on our side. we are just trying to help those kids not get paralyzed. we have to have voices that are trusted. muslim leaders, other countries they look to. we have the vaccines. we got islamic development, a

this is what i was telling you about the richest men the world, mexican carlos slim. hispanics tend to gravitate toward conservative family values. kimmel's of the study which means the world you the delicate hispanic protestants, red and blue, republican and democrat. it's almost equal. when they're not it's a very big difference. there's a study showing that typically they would embrace conservative family values. the longer they live in america, that is when they start to gravitate away from those traditional values. we have done -- is done? can i say one thing? we have had the privilege to participate. we actually did the spanish program for the show the kaynine in november. that was a tremendous honor a blessing to deal to do that. the movie courageous, we did the hispanic adaptation. we provided of the spanish-language for their website. we created two-minute promos. that is the kind of thing we do that can help bridge the gap but the hispanic american community. thank you so much. [applause] >> and need to take a minute. this is while we doing now is so importa

this is a business that is backed by a very wealthy person, billionaire carlos slim.ved is he getting in this? what have you learned on what he thinks about the future of tv and broadcasting? >> i have not even met him. i just know him as the owner of the company. i have never met him at all. i don't anticipate meeting him any time near soon because he would have to find me. i'm off the grid, like i said. we will be going from multiple locations, no one will ever know where the broadcasts are actually coming from. it's kind. genre i'm taking from the old wolfman jack when i was a teenager and all of us teenagers knew he was broadcasting from somewhere but we didn't know where. >> but you did get an idea of what this platform would be like from larry king, did you not? >> well, larry was the one that introduced me to the ora.tv people. i was on a book tour and larry was on my schedule. and i had not paid attention. and i thought he just retired from cnn. i said larry, what are you doing? he said i'm on the internet now. this is where you need to be, governor. and he wa

mayor bloomberg, carlos slim. so a lot of people have joined. they not only give money, they talked to other people. 2013 was a good year in some ways. and you went now it's now the third year. they've had no cases. that was very impressive. we had two new outbreaks, one in syria, one in somalia. so we've generally expect about one a year. and so that was a bit disappointing. the ongoing challenge, the big challenge is nigeria and pakistan. nigeria has about half as many cases. so we're rushing to get things really right in nigeria to try and get it done before the unrest around the 2015 election causes a destruction away from all the health activities. so we're close on that one. in pakistan, even in the last few days there have been some tragic killings. >> rose: what are they about? >> well, the polio program has been demonized as a plot of westerners to do something bad. sterilize women, know. almost as though it's got a bad intent. and so the truth is on our side, we're just trying to help those kids not get paralyzed. but we have to have v

if for instance mexican telecoms tycoon carlos slim the tops of rarefied rich list was a country. he'd be the seventh richest in africa his family were seventy three billion dollars. a report by oxfam which highlights the study of a group of economists shows on the eve of the world economic forum in davos. how does he find super rich getting richer by the way i could squeeze onto one double decker bus. not that the tee box. so why is the growing gap between rich and for not more of an issue. two years ago when the financial crisis was in full swing. movements like occupy wall street through the so called one percent to control the world's economy. talk was of salary caps meaning in bankers' bonuses. this not the trend today. take france's socialist president last week scrapped his tax the rich mantra in favor of tax breaks. his inability to meet the current losses to hire. how do you reverse the trends and narrow income inequality in today's world today in a false and depth of debate as the rich get richer with is to talk about it from davos me join charlie left its mark on co fou

who is first on the list, bill gates or carlos slim? they are bolstering their bottom line.re challenges. are we going to stop using desktop beginners in offices anytime soon? are we going to do everything on mobile devices? no. >> but, this is a business that ultimately some would say needs reorganizing in a way that is more suited to a world that we are moving into. historically microsoft has done fantastically well. it needs a bit of fresh thinking. when this process started everybody said to me, we need an outside candidate. we can carry on in the way that we are thinking at microsoft. >> one, the person has to be of the tech world. two, they have to be outside. >> alan mulally, was he not tech enough? we don't know. mulally,ld have been he didn't get the job so he is ending speculation. until we have great reporting inside -- stuff like that comes out years later. someone writes a book and we figure it out. hopefully they have a ceo by the time the book comes out. >> you can write the book. thank you, hans nichols. >> to goodyear managers are free after being held hosta

carlos slim is in second place.eiling a new concept car that uses solar panels to recharge itself. display nextgo on week at the consumer electronics show in las vegas. it comes with a canopy-like parking cover. it is not for your indoor garage. >> not a lot of sunshine today. a blizzard warning has been issued as the region of the northeast prepares for a winter storm that might dump more than one foot of snow in some areas. this is a live shot of cleveland, ohio. snow is already starting their. the snow is moving through the midwest. we have bonnie schneider for more on what to expect. talk about how serious this storm could be. >> looking at the live picture of cleveland, you think they have so much snow, but it is only a couple of inches with the wind pushing it around. we have a blizzard warning for long island and blizzard-like conditions in new york city. blowing and drifting snow will make it dangerous. we are forecng eight inches, possibly more in new york and over one foot in massachusetts. >> shouldn't we

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