carol massar's spoke with editor jeff muskus. os has so many things like getting people into space. talk to us about his blue origin and what they are doing will stop -- and what they are doing. jeff: they had a successful rocket launch. from west texas and the airfield, they blasted off this rocket to other flight accessible places. and this time they added a new twist, the peak of the aerodynamic stress, the rocket successfully tested its midflight emergency escape system which will be of comfort to the crew next year when they are aboard and hopefully paying passengers a year after that. carol: what is his timeline? jeff: the timeline right now is to man the test craft sometime next year and a year or so after that, they will put paying customers aboard. carol: i grew up with my dad as an aeronautical engineer, involved in the first space race. if you will, in terms of doing guided assistance. i feel like we are going into a second space race with well-known billionaires. you have the jeff bezos. you have elon musk. and you als

carol massar's spoke with the editor. bezos has so many packets -- so many things like getting people into space. >> they had a successful rocket launch. from west texas and the airfield, they blasted off this rocket to other flight accessible places. they added a new twist, the peak of the express, the rocket tested the emergency escape, which will be of comfort to the crew next year when they are aboard. carol: what is his timeline? jeff: the timeline right now is to man the test craft sometime next year and a year or so after that. carol: i grew up with my dad as in our nautical and involved in the space -- first space race. i feel like we are going into a second space race with well-known billionaires. you have the jeff bezos. you have elon musk. eurozone richard branson. jeff: they are operating 2 parallel trails. musk's is capable of orbital. carol: he is the one was gone really far. jeff: that's right. a lot bigger, which is why it was a big deal in september when the latest space x blowup on the launchpad. carol:

carol massar spoke with linden wolbert. >> a professional mermaid is someone who is an ambassador forgs enchantment to the world. carol: that sounds really good, but you are actually making a living portray or being a mermaid. tell me what you do. linden: what i do is very broad scale, pun intended. i educate children about our kinds of have all different things as far as performances. i do events for celebrities, for product launches. i also have my own line of children's swim products and mermaid tails. carol: talk about the celebrities. well-known celebrities have hired you were events. jessica alba, kelly osbourne. what have you done for them? linden: usually i do events for birthday parties. it was justin timberlake's surprise birthday party i performed that. for other people, i do children's birthdays or surprises or play dates. i am sometimes higher swim with children for the afternoon, to bring magic into the day. carol: sounds like fun and sounds like you do things for children. talk to me about the product line you developed. glove and i teamed up about four years ago now. h

i am carol massar. how computerized voting may impact the race for the white house, plus a look at all that went wrong for a visa program renewal in congress. "bloombergn businessweek." i am here with ellen pollack, and there are so many stories in this week's issue. let's start with markets and finance. it looks like opec has made a deal to cut production. it has been a lot of arguing back-and-forth about that for years and this is the first time they agreed to cut production in eight years. david: it is a big deal. ellen: saudi arabia has typically not wanted to cut production and now does. iran, which is usually the other way has almost switched positions, but they seem to be in agreement. it looks like oil production will go down and we have to see what happens with prices. david: saudi arabia and iran -- carol: saudi arabia and iran have different views. ellen: there is a classified ad site called back page that makes a lot of money from sex ads, a lot of money from sex ads. i have taken it over fr

i am carol massar. david: and i am david gura. we are coming to you from the bloomberg headquarters in new york. carol: genetically modified mosquitoes on, cut emissions to eliminate their own species and the zika virus along the way. some in the florida keys say, not so fast. david: and how patagonia, the climate company, chat -- plan to fight i'm a change with beer. carol: we also take a look at if google is the new apple, taking a look at the company's first real threat against the iphone. david: all that ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ carol: we are here with the editor-in-chief ellen pollock, and i want to take a look at your focus on section, and it is all about design. you take a look at zambia's stephen center. what are they? ellen: they are small store like places that were set up by an ngo with the help of idea.org. and they are meant to bring young women in and explain to them about birth control. turns out so many young people in zambia get pregnant. they do not have enough information about birth control. the way

i carol massar. david: i am david zero. n listen to us on sirius xm, channel 19, and a until hundred in boston, 99.1 in washington, d.c. carol: a rare sign of weakness and what is generally the biggest drop on tv, sports. david: presidential politics may be to blame. >> the nfl season in terms of ratings are off to a slow start great if you think about the television landscape right now, ratings are down because people watch a lot of television. live sports are supposed to be a huge draw and advertising draw. >> like untouchable. >> writes. people want to know the next day. they do not want to wait one day for the scores per day want to watch it live, so advertisers will pay enormous sums of money, especially for the nfl, because that the good this is one of the last audiences on television tuning in at the moment. what has happened is the ratings have been down 12% and there are a lot of different theories for why. some of the match maybe have not been as good, blowout games, a fair amount of people on the internet can feel

i am carol massar. genetically modified mosquitoes on, cut emissions to eliminate their own species and the zika virus along the way. some in the florida keys say, not so fast. david: some plan to fight climate change with beer. carol: we also take a look at if google is the new apple, taking a look at the company's first real threat against the iphone. david: all that ahead on bloomberg businessweek. ♪ carol: we are here with the editor in chief and i want to -- at yourr focus at focus on section. these are small, store like places that were set up by an ngo with the help of idea.org. they are meant to bring young women in and explained to them about birth control. so many young people in zambia get pregnant. they do not have enough information about birth control. the way they are reaching them puttinging things like on they'll polish and making it an easier conversation. they are doing it in urban areas and finding it is really working. david: 30% of women under the age of 18 get pregnant and that is

cory johnson and carol massar caught up with chief shawn layden. ckon with the launch window, we will have 20 or 30, and we are tracking about 50 by the end of 2016. carol: when people talk about virtual reality, i get excited because there are so many different ways you can use it appeared industrial, health care, what other potential markets are you looking at? gaming is certainly a big one, but is your horizon bigger? shawn: our entree into vr is beginning. sony has been the leader of the consul game in the home, and that is where we are attacking the market from, but i will tell you, we have had interest from places as far away as hollywood studios, music and record companies, the smithsonian jet propulsion laboratory. looking at vr, it is a new medium for entertainment and education. cory: do you expect that the killer app for these, the game that works the best, might be very different from what has worked in playstation? shawn: i am pretty sure that it's point to be true, cory. you will see that carrying on into early 2017. virtual reality is

i'm carol massar.this week's issue has the companies to watch. >> you will find household names and multiple up and comers. we spoke about workday. >> if you go back in history, these are the founders. hr related software to on premise clients. you would buy the software and you have someone deploy the software, and you would run your hr systems on it. then after a really messy takeover with oracle, the founders left and started this company called work today. their product was essentially to sell that similar product, but on the cloud. that's why, slowly and slowly, companies moved to their applications or work to the cloud. >> this came among the 50 companies to watch. >> the more interesting part of it here is cloud applications is becoming a very interesting place right now. we have a lot of competition coming in from legacy companies. this company workday as well as salesforce is doing some very interesting work right now. cusp ofwe are at the creative competition in the industry. a lot of fightin

i am carol massar. modified mosquitoes on, cut emissions to eliminate their own species and the zika virus along the way. some in the florida keys say, not so fast. david: some plan to fight climate change with beer. carol: we also take a look at if google is the new apple, taking a look at the company's first real threat against the iphone. david: all that ahead on bloomberg businessweek. ♪ carol:

emily: sony playstation chief shawn layden speaking to carol massar and cory johnson.david kirkpatrick review have thoughts on the future of vr because you do not think game you'll take it to the masses. if not, what will and will it get there? david: i think sony is smart to embrace vr. even noting my own feelings about sony, they are shifting because they seem kind of out of it in recent years and this could really improve their brand image, even if gaming is not going to be a gigantic market for them. i think the social experiences that vr can create our the big opportunity lies. oculus, owned by facebook, had the big event last week. zuckerberg gave a demonstration on stage. the part that i do not think was sufficiently enough written about and talked about was the social vr experiences he demonstrated. they have two different ways that facebook and oculus are developing social vr. i think for things like travel experiences, or you can really model an entire city with photographic vr and taliban with travel with friends, it may be more like shared experiences -- to

i am carol massar.zed voting may impact the race for the white house, plus a look at all that went wrong for a visa program renewal in congress. "bloombergn businessweek." i am here with ellen pollack

i am carol massar. david: and i am david gura. to you from the bloomberg headquarters in new york. carol: genetically modified mosquitoes on kamikaze missions to eliminate their own species and the zika virus along the way. some in the florida keys say, not so fast. david: and how patagonia, the clothing company, plans to fight climate change with beer. carol: we also take a look at if google is the new apple, taking a look at the company's first real threat against the iphone. david: all that ahead on "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ carol: we are here with the

carol massar and cory johnson spoke to coupa's c.e.o. and asked what to expect in coming months?listen. >> we had a great reception from investors across the country. what they can expect is for my team and i to continue to driving our company further and further, focusing on customers, ensuring success and driving measurable value to them, greater profitability better , visibility, more compliance for our platform. emily: this weekend on bloomberg, we'll bring you all our best interviews from the week, including our interview with gopro c.e.o. nick woodman as they revamped the hero 5. that hits store shelves. the best of bloomberg tech this weekend on bloomberg television. up next, how cloud-based tools are unlocking new frontiers in the way we work. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: apple is consolidating its efforts in cloud services, combining the teams working on siri, maps, apple news, apple music, even parts of itunes into one location in their infinite loop campus. the groups currently work separately in different business parks, something that's been blamed for software bugs a

i am carol massar. david: and i am david gura. ou from the magazine headquarters in new york. carol: genetically modified mosquitoes on kamikaze missions to eliminate their own species and the zika virus along the way. some in the florida keys say, not so fast. david: and how patagonia, the clothing company, plans to fight climate change with beer. sounds like al: good move. we also take a look at if google is the new apple, taking a look at the company's first real threat against the iphone. david: all that ahead on "bloomberg businessweek."

i am carol massar.rized voting may impact the race for the white house, plus a look at all that went wrong for a visa program renewal in congress. and greece's most wanted. we will tell you all about who is hiding in maryland. all ahead in "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ carol: i am here with the m

i am carol massar. may impact the race for the white house, plus a look at all that went wrong for a visa program renewal in congress. and greece's most wanted. we will tell you all about who is hiding in maryland. all ahead in "bloomberg businessweek." ♪ carol: i am here with the magazine's editor-in-chief ellen pollack, and there are so many stories in this week's issue. let's start with markets and finance. ellen: it looks like opec has

carol massar is standing by with brad slingerlend.h us brad slingerlend, with janus capital management. good to have you here with us. talk about the environment right now, the investment themes you are following in the tech sector. >> there is a lot happening in the tech sector right now. the biggest things are the shift to the cloud, away from the legacy i.t. systems we have been using for the last 30 years come into the new platforms. we are seeing a three horse race development between amazon web services, microsoft cloud platforms, and google's cloud platform. a year ago, amazon was dominating, and they still have the market share, but amazon and google are doing well in that market. carol: does that mean you are moving into those names as a result? investors,ong-term those earnings we are positioned in. we think they are poised to win quite a bit of market share. two chilean dollars spent a year on i.t. globally. quite a bit of that is on infrastructure and software. we think that these three companies are poised to gain market

let's check in with cory johnson and carol massar. thank you so much. welcome, everybody.e do have rob bernstein, the chief executive officer at cupa. soaring.ware nice to have you here on bloomberg television and bloomberg radio. tell me about the business. investors surely welcoming your ipo. what can they expect from you in the coming months that you are going to deliver on that seem to be high expectations from investors? what they can expect a stir my team and i to continue driving our organization further and further. we do that by focusing on our customers and ensuring their value tond driving them, better compliance through our platforms. cory: i think a hard for people to understand what you are -- what your business does. magical you have some cloud software that spells across an organization of possibly a spending and finds places where it is spending too much. : you are familiar with sales sores, which is technology in the cloud to help people sell better and service customers. of theother side equation, there are organizations around the world that are spendin

sutherland is with carol massar and cory johnson on radio. welcome to everyone on bloomberg tv.ith brooke sutherland, m&a columnist ed bloomberg gadfly. call, and nxp, just $10 apart. are they going to come together, what is the expectation, should they come together? >> there is an easy way to meet in the middle. $10 a share is not nothing but not a huge divide between the companies. when you look at $115 a share, it there is a reason why that should be mathematically attractive to both sides. i'm optimistic that they can figure something out. you never know until the end but it seems like this is not a huge cap to bridge. the way i would put it, they are pessimistic until the very end. historically, big technology deals don't work, but maybe semiconductors are different? has beenk everyone doing a semiconductor deal. qualcomm has been vocal about getting a deal done. they have incentive to see this through and try to diversify themselves away from smartphones him and which has not been growing. i think most big deals in general do not work, but qualcomm has incentive to see it

carol massar along with cory johnson. the technology reporter for bloomberg news.for the left front and center last week. we are watching how investors are reacting. there are a lot of questions whether at&t gets to do this take over of time warner. >> i feel the regulatory world has shifted. it has been difficult in the second half of the obama administration. there is no sign it will get easier. donald trump has said he plans on blocking the deal if elected. hillary clinton has made comments she will take a close look at these megamergers. bernie sanders says the deal should be blocked. you could see a hillary clinton administration being even more difficult and having more scrutiny on these big mergers. i can see why the markets feel this deal may not go through. that said, the clearest proxy for this deal is comcast buying nbc. that is a deal that did go through. i wonder when we look at the deal, while comcast did get nbc through, the backlash grew. there was a lot of talk about the free and open internet. it seems it has changed and was changing and they bare

vonnie: we have more on today's tech earnings when we join carol massar at 2:00 p.m.is the best-performing stock in seven years and their rally is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ vonnie: you are watching bloomberg markets. the largest minor in canada, teck resources has increased fivefold. the market value is $12 million. it's the biggest year to date gain of any stock since 2009 at 12 billion dollars. tech in such a world leader this year? >> good to be with you. it has been a world beater. as you mentioned, this is the largest diversified miner in canada and trades in new york. the volume in new york is usually heavier than canada. 2 main commodities produced i them, meth-coal and zinc. we know we have seen a global rally in big minors this year a world beater. in january, it was around four dollars canadian and now it's over $28 and some say it could go into the mid-30's. the best tsx performance and seven years. oal prices have tripled and zinc has its biggest rally in seven years, up by 44% this year. revenue is increasing for the company and earnings are getting bett