caroline: what about brexit?ry: that is a great question and there are three things we have that other cities in e urope do not have. we have a wonderful creative industry here come outside of technology. we have incredible university talent coming out from universities across the the u.k., and we have access to smart money. not just capital, but people understand how best to help mrs. grow. caroline: it is of course, compared to silicon valley. when you are looking at companies to invest in, too many still hope to go to silicon valley, or will they take their company to full fruition in europe? many want to see that happen within the next 10 years. i think what is interesting to me as well, there are the number of companies from uruguay, japan, korea, japan and america who are coming here to base themselves around europe properly as a market and we see a huge influx of applications from startups across the globe. that is enormously reassuring for us. you talk about how we have creator skills, advertisers -- are

caroline: thank you very much indeed. fox -- fox, thank you. ,acebook being shown on their shadowy buyers. that is next. this is bloomberg. ♪ intoine: new intrigue divisive political as bottom facebook ahead of the 2016 presidential election. more than half of the sponsors of those ads have little or no public paper trails. six of those ad buyers were linked to russia. thatis from research examine 5 million ads that ran from september to november 2016. joining me now from d.c., the study's lead author. wonderful to have you with us. fascinating the research you have done. talk to us about who was running these ads. what made you realize they were in some way suspicious? >> good question. we examined 5 million paid ads on facebook. they were exposed to nearly 10,000 volunteered users who represent the voting age population in the united states. we track to the sources and sponsors behind these political ads. we realize that most of the divisiveo ran these campaigns are anonymous, meaning on identifiable, on trackable group

caroline: i know cyber i.t.d what about the hot area of ai helping fight cybersecurity? where d.c. interesting companies coming from and are you looking to invest in them? -- where do you see interesting companies coming from? max: data is an ingredient for ai to work. yet people that are under threat. you have people are in need, therefore they will rely on machines to take over some of that workers is being defensive about it. and yet the willingness to work with things that are not get 100%. the threat is so real that a lot of times customers are willing to work with products that are not in the startup phase. there is a former cybersecurity team that is working on an ai-based part as the frontline in response. that idea is the ai helps handle the first level of defense. caroline: response software for example, does it end up going public or will it be eaten up by the older guard released to have these exciting new areas of growth internalized? max: we always make our early-stage investments with the are comp

on caroline hyde. of earlier, elon musk is making the claims on twitter today saying the vehicle profitablebe and positive to the third and fourth quarter. as may be a good time to check in with the company's cash burn. if you turn into your bloomberg terminal, we can see the cash flow. if you go to my bloomberg, three is the operative word here. it has been cast burn as you have seen over the years. we are always below the red line. the blue graph is showing how much negative, where last year, we had $3.5 billion of cash bird. -- cash burnt. however, elon is saying no, we won't be burning through that cash. we will be positive. even though analysts expect net losses of something around 192 million and the following quarters. interesting stuff, but you see elon fighting against the charts and the economists reporting. let's take a turnout to look , 28.3ndex ventures paris-based dollar digital health insurance company. to its portfolio that they have invested in. we caught up with jan hammer. what it dr

caroline: i'm caroline hyde live from london.a gear.it this is bloomberg markets, and this is the milken in beverly hills. back with erik schatzker. he is joined by a tight in the industry. erik: i am here with manny friedman. he has six and a half billion dollars in hedge funds. his name joins another firm, fdr. --fbr. good morning to you. you once described your investment philosophy as understanding big revolutionary andes in the markets, taking advantage of structural opportunities created by these changes. >> that is true. how are you taking advantage of it? : the: the biggest -- manny biggest change, small banks, medium banks, in the equity side and in the debt side. there is a revolution taking place. they are getting the advantage swingsive pendulum and thederegulation, administration put in rules that favor small banks, so the playing field is not level. they have huge advantages over large banks. they are growing at 8%, with 12-15%.growing at that has become a positive theirck loop, where stocks are doing well. the capi

caroline: that is interesting.aul, i am also looking at, you said, really anyone who is betting against netflix will probably continue to fail in this respect. i'm looking at short interest at netbooks at the moment, and that has continued to tail off. if you go into the bloomberg, you can see on the white line how we continue to see upward trend in the netflix share price. in the blue line, there's a continued downward trend in terms of short interest. 4% of all equity floating is currently shorted. do you remain out the game if you're going to be a bear on netflix? do you think this is a bull's view of the world? paul: i think netflix always has and is still playing the long game. and one thing that is interesting about content libraries is that they are the cumulative -- they are cumulative. they build up. you invest in content, and it is always there for you to return to. a show that is popular today may go through ups and downs, but eventually, people come back to it. they want to tune into the next season of

caroline: you're right. him in the past talking about potentially taxing robots, and within artificial intelligence he has been talking about how he's not quite yet convinced about the future of ai in terms of its control, about where the role of institutions is in ensuring that artificial intelligence is in the hands of the right people. i wanted to really get his view on perhaps where the future of technology goes, if it is indeed a smooth path or not. clearly, he thinks there are bumps in the road, and governments have a role to play. have a listen. mr. gates: every technology brings with it both a lot of advance -- the automobile net is a very good thing -- but it brought in huge safety challenges. here, where you are communicating online, the government is going to be involved in deciding what is hate speech that should be censored, what is free speech. it is not a simple issue. only the government gets to draw that line. so yes, government is very important to look at why these new technologies may nee

caroline: take us back to the room and testimony.rk zuckerberg defended his company from an investor's point of view pretty solidly. did the business model walk away intact? sarah: zuckerberg gave some answers, that i felt were easy to poke holes into for the long-term. in testimony, they were brought enough that it allowed the questions to slide right off of them and made everyone feel like this is nothing new here. facebook said users are in charge of their data first and foremost. when he was talking about was the data you choose to share, what he was not talking about was the way facebook tracks you on and off the platform. people who are not even users of the platform, later on the testimony he did admit that facebook tracks users who are not logged in, or don't have accounts. that was just one of the many ways in which zuckerberg said he was going to be challenged in the future. he did a great job at the moment. we are not running quotes" over on the platform that shown he gaps or slip up. i think, right now, we are in the peri

caroline? caroline: also russian stocks have weakness.at currently, significant eyeing opportunities are seeing. if you look at the valuations, u.s. selling russian stock valuations to the 26 month low. check out the recent fall off in that short. -- in that chart. tom: we are honored to bring you david folkerts-landau. he describes his research capability and historic research on china lows. he joins us with caroline in london. it would be appropriate to ask you, with your years of service to deutsche bank, your thoughts on this generational change in senior management. how will they say deutsche bank? morning, glad to be here. normally, i would not comment on internal deutsche bank fears, but this is such an important change and exciting day i got i would let go of that for a change. i believe this advisory board has been head pointed in extending you and matt -- outstanding new management pass. these you guys, who have been at the bank for a long time, decades, and note the bank inside out, went through the strategy and determined to i

caroline: despite brexit?t had an impact yet, because the ecosystem is super important to be able to hire important people at all levels, and the u.k. is unparalleled for that. >> i think london attracted $3 billion in investment last year, short of $5 billion. that is london ahead the rest of europe within our portfolio. we backed entrepreneurs who set up in stockholm and central and eastern europe. the most talented art vendors are seeing the success from their peer group across europe, and starting out wherever they might be. caroline: and what about the industry groups, and the verticals? yet companies like magic pony, which is video. what verticals are you particularly seeing? >> we are both in taking a risk with entrepreneurs, but we see a concentration in retail and businesses coming from a consumer perspective. we also have b2b players, helping retailers sell more effectively. digital health is a focus for us, and we have three or four businesses, including big health, which are going onto big things a

caroline. oh, i would just want to say that this is a perfect opportunity to get to know us, a perfect time to actually drop by our table because it's like a picnic for our family. we got all sorts of filipino foods over there. everybody gets to see and enjoy just the way that we are. and we're actually--it's actually--what's amazing is you just come in, you don't know anything about it, and it gives us hope already to go on and continue on for another year for us. robert: very good. well, congratulations on everything, and looking forward to the walk. evan, good to see you again. evan: thank you. robert: the autism speaks walk will take place on saturday, april 14 at history park in san jose. registration opens at 9 a.m., walk at 10:30 a.m. nbc bay area is a proud sponsor, and the "today in the bay's" weather anchor kari hall will be on hand to host. for more details, go to nbcbayarea.com. and when we come back, hopefully you understand now that autism doesn't have to hold someone back from cr

caroline mentioned elections.hey wanted to bring across on the call is we are getting ready for 2018 and we do not want to see a repeat of 2016, when our platform was used in abusive ways to spread misinformation and really sway the public with just information that was crap. emily: he says that they will be ready for the midterms. tom: they better be, because they will be scrutinized in 2018. emily: tom giles, caroline hyde, thank you both. lending club has been accused of misleading consumers. the federal trade commission says the company promised no hidden fees, even though it subjected hundreds or even thousands of dollars in upfront fees from loans. lending club is a case of charging consumers, even after they paid off loans. the online lender says it is "disappointed with the lawsuit." caroline, i will bring you back on this. what do you make of this, this coming from the ftc? caroline: it is fascinating. you heard the response from lending club over all. they say that these are unwarranted, but this is a he

emily: -- caroline: new roles in -- caroline: new rules in the future, talking of hate speech.k he was hinting at what facebook had just been facing on capitol hill. emily: gates himself was at the center of congressional testimony a couple decades ago. what are his thoughts on facebook and whether facebook and big tech at large should be better regulated? caroline: he wouldn't go as far as to say, yes, regulation is necessary, particularly for the likes of facebook. i asked him directly, should facebook be regulated? he seemed to think it's unavoidable, but didn't say necessary. bill: there are privacy rules. those rules will continue to evolve as people see what's going on. europe has a new round of privacy rules. every two or three years, i think you will see more activity there. caroline: i asked him, look, any advice for the man, mark zuckerberg, as he comes up in front of regulators. he is a man who has experience in it. he just gave a smile and seemed to think these things will come, emily. emily: all right. bloomberg's caroline hyde, live in london. thank you for that i

carolin: he wouldn't -- caroline: he wouldn't go as far as to say, yes, regulation is necessary, particularlyes of facebook. i asked him directly, should facebook be regulated? he seemed to think it's unavoidable, but didn't say necessary. bill: there are privacy rules. those rules will continue to evolve as people see what's going on. europe has a new round of privacy rules. every two or three years, i think you will see more activity there. caroline: i asked him, look, any advice for the man, mark zuckerberg, as he comes up in front of regulators. he is a man who has experience in it. he just gave a smile and seemed to think these things will come, emily. emily: all right. bloomberg's caroline hyde, live press in london. thank you for that interview with bill gates. teching of philanthropic giants, the man just ahead of bill gates is trying to make his mark against cancer. the jeff bezos-backed startup is seeking to raise $1 billion ahead of its planned ipo. it plans to list in hong kong this year. it is strung to create screenings that can diagnose people with early stage cancer before the

institutional interests i want to begin caroline hyde. caroline, take it away.utned fromc funds coming optimist ventures. funds,e announced new and yet raised over $2 million, and more than and four. where is the interest to begin in terms of money flows into a fund? >> we are seeing a shift in u.s. interest. we are lucky we have existing investors, and one of them is bbb, and extra demand is coming from u.s. investors. you are seeing europe as a attractive place to invest in venture. they are sophisticated investors, and they have been doing this for decades. they have seen how successful that has been come and they eawest toa wave from east, and they see the next land of opportunity as europe. caroline: and fundraising continues at optimist ventures. you say this sets you up to be able to continue work comes to new ventures. are about the checks, valuations getting bigger and the opportunities you see? >> we see a growing trend of talented entrepreneurs coming to us with fantastic ideas with global ambition. increase inan funding size over the last 10 years. s

emily: bloomberg pas caroline hyde with ken -- bloomberg's caroline hyde with ken mulvany.ech ipos already this year. there appeared to be -- appear to be plenty more on the horizon. ♪ welcome to the xfinity store. i can tell you about... streaming the most free tv shows and movies on the go. yeah, and... xfinity internet. it's so fast! and you can save by... by getting up to 5 mobile lines included. whoa, you're good. i'm just getting started. ♪ simple. easy. awesome. come see how you could save $400 or more a year with xfinity mobile. plus ask how to keep your current phone. visit your local xfinity store today. mark c.: i'm mark crumpton in new york, and you are watching "bloomberg technology." according to people familiar with the matter, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein told president trump last week that he is not a target of any part of the special counsel's investigation or his probe into his longtime lawyer, michael cohen. despite objections from mitch mcconnell, the judiciary committee will consider a special counsel protection bill. >> congress must conside

caroline: what about you going forward?nderstand this is the single biggest ever return for your fund. you have money to put to work, one billion euros, more than. what are you going to invest in next? p.j.: we do see a lot of interesting things going on in europe and also here in the united states. i think the difference with the venture industry right now, for instance, from 20 years when i started, is that we are addressing huge markets, fundamental market shift, like entire multitrillion dollar financial institutions industry, it's ripe for disruption. you see also the there is a lot of venture capital money going into that space, so we are quite excited about that. also, obviously, the ideas of disrupting the traditional way of selling stuff, typically through stores. this is the direct to consumer trend, i think, is here to stay and will build over time. caroline: some of the fin tech businesses you are in -- what does this mean for the european ecosystem? spotify is a european company. p.j.: yes. i think it is tremen

caroline: so, a computer can.s in the benevolent ai and you are scaling the business, raising money, $150 million. what will that be used to do? ken: much of it is going to be used to expand our therapeutic footprint, to begin to look at other diseases. also, scale the business. we are about 165 people at the moment. i think comfortably we will be 300 around by the end of the year. and we will be growing from there and really looking at making an impact on those diseases. it is kind of a mix between biological scientists that we need and advanced computer science that we need to tackle some of these very difficult problems. caroline: where does the talent lie? where do you need to hire? >> we have offices in london and in cambridge and in new york, and those seem to be the hubs that have really the deepest talent pools for the type of skills that we need. the u.k. has been, historically, very strong in the sciences, both biological and more in innovating in the ai sciences. it is a really good place to be. carolin

caroline hyde live in london. david kirkpatrick with us. caroline, soros not always a fan.the change of heart? caroline: maybe the bubble has burst. he called it back in january saying it was in a bubble territory and now we're up by 60% or 70% when you are looking at the coin, but also looking at litecoin, a theory him. -- etherium. maybe the time is right to get going in terms of trading this particular asset class. , we know he is not currently made a trade, for the time could be right. i also think this is a contrarian that. we know george sowers made his -- soros bet against the pound. maybe with all the concerns $500 the hacking of million going on with some particular exchanges. maybe take the bull by the horns and start to double. he would not be the first institution or the manager to be doing so. they also what the appetite withholding the overstock. this is the e-commerce company that started taking payments and digital currency. they took that back and overstock is being invested by the sec because they wanted to become an exchange in the and i feel. emily: davi

you are a platform, you and your co—founder, caroline, you and your co—founder, caroline, you are onand i thought, i know about quite a few of these already why do we need another one? i think because there's not enough information out there and the more we spoke to female entrepreneurs, caroline and i have been running our own businesses for 11—5 years, we had experiences when we doubted our abilities, we didn't know for to get information, i have a law degree from cambridge and i remember the thought passing through my head, women don't start businesses like this and there are certain businesses and role models that were shown in industries but there are other things for which you don't have role models and appears to offer that advice. online dating industry and dating industry in general, very few women in that industry? on the online side and was on them and i think that was one of the things that caused me to have doubts, i knew! the things that caused me to have doubts, i knew i had a good business idea but i thought can i go into the industry and can i make inroads into it? t

joining me now is phil mudd and caroline, criminal defense attorney.hil, i want to start with you here. just big picture after all this lead-up. you read these memos, memos that republican allies to the president wanted released, and you thought what? >> one simple thing and that is credibility. if you look at the contemporaneous detail, the thing that struck me here was not any particular fact, we knew a lot of this before, but the level of detail in this series of memos that goes on over time, not only in-person meetings but telephonic conversations between the former fbi director and the president. the level of detail going into the mueller investigation suggests to me to comey is credible. you don't sit down there and just come up, especially for a career prosecutor whose whole career is built on credibility in front of a judge and jury, you don't sit there and say let me spin this detail out of thin air. when i saw that detail, i'm saying mueller is adding that to all these getting from other interviews, from financial and phone records. that deta

emily: all right, caroline hyde, thank you.res are jumping, and is trading on a solid first-quarter with sales surpassing analysts' estimates and an update to outlook ahead. baidu is china's largest -- most popular search engine. baidu is entering a critical year after selling four spinning off non-core businesses including food delivery. coming up, after paypal strong earnings, the ceo will weigh in on possible m&a. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: sequoia capital has raised $6 billion towards the biggest capital venture fund. top venture funds have exploded recently to compete with the softbank vision fund and the $100 billion target. softbank has written massive checks to the start up like uber and india's foot card. paypal beat estimates and gave in optimistic -- an optimistic forecast for the second. they continue to add new accounts, but what about rising competition and online payments? paypal ceo john remy discussed that earlier with vonnie quinn and mark barton. >> we have seen a lot of interests in the high-growth business

i am only going to begin the tone because i began with caroline on this last year.that men think that they are experts in everything, women who are experts sometimes need to be encouraged to put themselves forward, encouraged to regard themselves as an expert, encouraged to run for office. there are issues in parliament at the moment about just encouraging women to run for parliament. there are many mediocre men who never thought for a second about whether or not they would be qualified to do that job. i know that the producers i work with work very hard to think is there a female voice that we can get on these specific stories, in particular stories which tend to be so particular stories which tend to be so dominated by men, so science and technology. it is about a mindset as much as anything. absolutely, and one of the things, as were talking about earlier, the biggest gaps, you see it on things that perhaps we do not even notice we are seeing, like comedy panel shows. producers struggle to get female guest. what needs to happen is someone needs to make a stab at

caroline: you name it, and they rose.h was on the up, we saw litecoin go higher ether , go higher. overall this was an all boats rise kind of story. emily: talk about what barclays is saying. they are saying bitcoin has peaked, when obviously there is optimism from others. what is their reasoning? caroline: this really caught my eye. why? because they are using a way of strategizing bitcoin by using cancer as a way of trying to visualize it. it really struck me. the headline was quite phenomenal on the bloomberg terminal, that barclays says the rise of bitcoin is similar to the spread of infectious diseases. overall what they are showing is, like cancer, you have groups who are susceptible, groups or -- who are infected groups who , are immune. they say more are becoming immune. the amount of people out there that have heard about cryptocurrencies, have heard of bitcoin that has hit peak. , they say it is universally known now. that means there are fewer people to be convinced and buy. "we believe the speculative froth ph

caroline hyde joins us. want to dootify today? caroline: they want to list and a stable point.less. they want to at least allow their investor base to make money, to have a liquidity moment. this is the way they want to own the situation. the founder of spotify doesn't want to pay for banks, he doesn't want to devalue his shareholders or have a liquidity event. public. to go guy: it's not the traditional method. .aroline: we don't want it some are saying it will. $220, argets are up to 70% jump. the other side of the coin on this is absolute arrogance. saw,n the document that i bring up the banner right now. than do noe worse evil at google years ago. can you explain to me what imagine for the long-term means? is it $125 billion? is it we will see not just 71 million people streaming music and pain for it. musicant this to be streaming, streaming is going global. spotify is a number one player. guy: thank you very much indeed. it caroline will be back later. we have a very quick straw poll. patrick: i think it's been 18 years. guy: caroline has never bought a cd in her life. yo

these -- there are ships already in place out there. >> caroline, we have to interrupt you. the president is speaking. >> -- associated with the chemical weapons capabilities of syrian dictator bashar al- assad. a combined operation with the armed forces of france and the united kingdom is now under way. we thank them both. tonight, i want to speak with you about why we have taken this action. one year ago, assad launched a savage chemical weapons attack against his own innocent people. the united states responded with 58 missile strikes that destroyed 20% of the syrian air force. last saturday, the assad regime again deployed chemical weapons to slaughter innocent civilians, this time in the town of douma near the syrian capital of damascus. this massacre was a significant escalation in a pattern of chemical weapons use by that very terrible regime. the evil and the despicable attack left mothers and fathers, infants and children, thrashing in pain and gasping for air. these are not the actions of a man. they are crimes of a monster, instead. following the horrors of world

let me bring in caroline polissi, here with me.o, we're both hearing that together for the first time. they promised to release the sketch of the person that had threatened stormy daniels. i'm not sure if they have done that quite yet. what do you make of just in general stormy daniels speaking out? she's now on a publicity tour of her own. >> she is. you heard meghan mccain grilling her hard about whether or not she was just doing this as a publicity stunt. she made an appearance in the sdny case this past week. >> just there -- just there yesterday in court. >> just there yesterday in court. i think they're playing this hand to their advantage and avenatti is a shrewd lawyer and in this instance he's done everything right. they played that tape about the $130,000 payment. trump saying he had no idea about it. the key issue in the civil case in avenatti and stephanie clifford, the stormy daniels case, in california federal court, the key issue there is the issue of the nondisclosure agreement and whether or not president trump kne

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caroline, thank you very much.how these stories are going to end when she gets involved. now it is time to see the statue. they are going to be joined byjustine symons, deputy may up joined byjustine symons, deputy may up the culture and creative industries, who is representing the statue commissioning group. by nine—year—old agatha crombie, from millbank academy, 15—year—old amina from lambeth and i'm delighted to welcome millicent fawcett‘s great grandniece, jennifer, who is one of the great granddaughters of millicent‘s extraordinary sister, elizabeth garrett anderson, the first british woman to qualify as a doctor. so they are all in place holding the ropes that are over the statue. it has been designed by gillian wearing, the turner winning prize —— artist and she will be the first british sculptor to have her work displayed in parliament square. so let's countdown. five, four, three, two, one. cheering applause so thank you very much to caroline, to reza, justine, agatha, amina and jennifer and thank you gill

emily: caroline hyde for us in london.ontinuedon that, we to watch what the founder is claiming to lead. he disagreed with parent company facebook over the apple strategy, and we have the personal data. and trying to launch a unique facebook campaign. now we continue live coverage from the melvin institute mobile conference. we will speak with microsoft chair john compton about joining a light speed adventure. that is next. later this hour, u.s. treasury secretary steven mnuchin will join the show to talk about trade, the dollar, and economic groups -- economic growth in the united states. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: we are live from the milken institute global conference in beverly hills, california. a microsoft chair john compton is joining -- [inaudible] [indiscernible] taking over as chair when bill gates stepped down in 2014. [indiscernible] the fund in 2016 has $1.22 billion. joining us now is john compton. and well willd your investment focus the? mr. khan jim: lightspeed because they were investors -- mr. compton:

caroline: that's the key question.cause he basically in agreement of price point. why did it fall but -- fall apart last time? control. but this time the markets got excited again. this time we saw yet another pop. a 17% increase in spring price alone. that's a $4 billion increase in market capitalization. $3obile also got a pop of billion. so there is hope clearly, which is exciting the markets. they are hoping they can scale through this. combining the number three and number four player would help leapfrog past at&t. it would have about 100 million users, still just behind verizon's more than 116 million users. you would get scale, the ability to get -- and spectrum, they have an area of growth for 5g that would work by combining the two. the issue is regulation. the analyst once again highlighting regulation hurdles. it is bigger than the at&t time warner deal. emily: so obviously the owners of two mobile, telecom, not going to let it go without a good price. what could seal the deal? caroline: exactly that. price,

caroline, we've been combing through the james comey memos. this is another one for you, it says "at various times he talked about the inauguration and crowd size, the campaign and effective use of free media, earned media, the extraordinary luxury of the white house which he favorably compared to mar-a-lago. his many activities during the day and week. his young son's height, the viciousness of the campaign, where i interjected about adams and jefferson. he said he had been given a book about it which was upstairs. how he had not been mocking a handicap reporter and had not assaulted any of the women claimed he did, reviewing in detail several of the allegations and many other things. i'll attempt to recount in some detail only those parts that related in some way to my work." wow. he took very specific notes. >> he did. >> he keeps going on about things he's concerned about. i didn't do that to those women, the crowd sizes were huge. >> right. the thought i keep coming back to is why are we all reading this? why do we get this insider's pers

i'm caroline tyler. thanks for joining us on this sunday, april 29th. let's start with a quick look at the weather with lisa archer. >> good morning, everyone. hi, there. starting out with live doppler 7 where we're in the same pattern with the system to the north and the scirculation and allowing fr cloud cover and showers. did you notice the wet pavement? we had a few showers and temperatures have been kept up. 47 in santa rosa, 46 in clover dale and clear lake but elsewhere, low to mid 50s. 52 in free monmont and partly cy and temperatures will stay in the 60s while we stay cool at the coast. low to mid 50s and the sunsets before 8:00 and i'll let you know when we'll see temperatures come around to may averages when we see you again. caroline? >> lisa, tank you. >>> breaking news, one man is dead after a crash on 280. it happened around 10:30 last night near the highway 87 interchange. a chp officer found the victim face down in the road way. he was taken to the hospital where he died. the crash closed all lanes of 280 for about two hours. it's uncle

do you think they support comey's previous testimony, caroline?here's really no bombshells in here, nothing inconsistent with his prior testimony before the senate intelligence committee. so i do think he gets sort of a credibility star on that point. again, you know, from a legal standpoint, i don't know if, you know, if it goes far enough to get to an obstruction case, based on what we knew before. it seems all pretty innocuous to let the flynn thing go. doesn't go further than the testimony we heard from him before nor does the potential, you know, the closed-door meeting, the loyalty oath, it doesn't get you over the goal post when it comes to an obstruction of justice charge. >> okay, michael, how much stock do you put in contemporaneous notes? >> a lot of stock. i think it does go to back up comey's statements and this is sort of a practice of a good federal investigator. they're used to taking notes and making reports as they go. this is classic investigative method for the fbi and i think it backs up what he said. i think what's interestin

with caroline wheeler, the deputy political editor at the sunday times, and laura hughes, political correspondent of the financial times. that's all ahead on bbc news. now on bbc news it's time for sportsday.

caroline: this really caught my eye. why?are using a way of strategizing bitcoin by using cancer as a way of trying to visualize it. it really struck me. the headline was quite phenomenal on the bloomberg terminal, that barclays says the rise of bitcoin is similar to the spread of infectious diseases. overall what they are showing is, like cancer, you have groups who are susceptible, groups or infected, and groups who are immune. they say more are becoming immune. those that have heard about cryptocurrency, that has hit peak. they say it is universally known now. that means there are fewer people to be convinced and buy. "we believe the speculative froth phase is over and perhaps peak prices are behind us." chartve to go back to the showing that perhaps the time to buy is now. bitcoin trading just above the yellow line, which is the technical indicator showing prices could push higher. emily: caroline, thanks so much for that break down. coming up, after the hearings in washington this week, lawmakers to protect allls my priv

caroline annings.government and the rebels. —— air strikes we have seen. strikes we have seen. bussed out of that town and taken to the north of the country. the north of the country. al—assad will be pretty much in control of all of his capital. we are also hearing about these airstrikes. can you take us through it? it? a heavy price of a suspected chemical attack. chemical attack. response to the air base in central syria. syria. killing at least 14 military personnel on the air base. personnel on the air base. the us have denied it significantly. have denied it significantly. israel has yet to comment on that attack. has yet to comment on that attack. are so many international players involved in the war. here's carol with a look at this morning's weather. across northern england, the midlands. midlands. week, it's generally going to be mild. mild. north sea coastline where we are pulling in the easterly wind. pulling in the easterly wind. inland, rain at times but equally this week, some sunny spel

caroline and laura, thank you so much, it has been a pleasure to talk you about the front pages, thank you for watching, from all of us, goodbye.

emily: that was bloomberg's alex webb and caroline hyde.this edition of the "best of bloomberg technology." we will bring you the latest of tech during the week. tune in every day, 5:00 p.m. in new york, 2:00 p.m. in san francisco. that is all for now. this is bloomberg. ♪ ♪ juliette: coming up on "bloomberg best," stories that shaped the week in business around the world. volatility in geopolitics. investors weigh the risks as global leaders weigh action. >> all on the table. >> ryan's departure is expected. >> dangerous game of one-upsmanship. it is also a heavy risk of escalation. juliette: deutsche bank and volkswagen make changes while mark zuckerberg gets grilled on capitol hill. >> has he had an easier time than he was expecting to have. juliette: march minutes open a window onto jay powell's first fed meeting. and an exclusive conversation with robert kaplan.

caroline: what about you going forward?is i understand to be the single biggest ever return for european vc fund. what will you invest in next? >> we see a lot of interesting things going on in europe and also in the united states. i think the difference with the venture industry right now, 20 years from when i started, we are addressing huge markets, fundamental market shifts, like entire multitrillion dollar financial institutions industry. it is ripe for creative destruction, and you see there is a lot of venture capital money going into that space, so we are quite excited about that. also, obviously the ideas of destructing the traditional way of selling stuff, typically through stores, and this is the direct consumers trend is here to stay and will build over time. emily: that was pj speaking with caroline hyde. coming up, keeping the internet safe from extremist content. the man helping to stop that content from ever being uploaded. that is next. later, amazon under presidential fire. the president ramps up his war of

caroline davies reports. the floral tributes left for henry vincent, the burglar who was killed during a break in this. the neighbours on street he tried to steal from have mixed the neighbours on street he tried to stealfrom have mixed views the neighbours on street he tried to steal from have mixed views on the shrine. everybody has a right to do what they want to do, if you think this is the right way to mourn your loved ones. if it is a normal person, that is a different thing. in this case the men went and burgled a house. an inquest heard that mr vincent died after he was stabbed by the owner of a house in strike a verbal. richard osborne brooks, who was 78, was held on suspicion of murder but released further action. please have also released a picture of a man called billy g ‘s. they have said they want to speak to him about the break—in. later, mr vincent's family returned to put the flowers back. the family of henry vincent didn't want to speak on camera, but they told me how upset they were at thes

tell us about this, caroline. it is turning into a bit ofa car caroline.moment we have got the commonwealth heads of government meeting for a very key meeting in the calendar, and basically what has happened here is that the guardian has discovered the landing card slips of the windrush immigrants have been destroyed and we re immigrants have been destroyed and were destroyed back in 2010, which was basically the only evidence that they are possibly could have been of they are possibly could have been of the arrival date of these individuals. that is what this is centred around, whether or not they have the legal right to remain here and to be here. the interesting thing about this is that it has come from a whistle—blower who worked within the home office context who said that this happened in 2010, that this happened despite warnings that this happened despite warnings that if they did this it would make it very difficult to find out exactly find people had arrived, pre—empting this particular scandal. but if you think about when this happened, 0ctober b

keep his marriage to caroline a secret and marry on an isolated coast off the island off the coast of. she dies of cancer in may 1994 at the age of 64. >> the paparazzi were outs there and everybody was jumping all over him. i just remember screaming at one point, get away, it's his mother. give the guy a break. >> jackie had married a greek shipping management and widowed for a second time. she chose to be buried at arlington national cemetery beside her first husband jack. >> jackie kennedy will always be rememberedor h courage in the wake of the assassination of her husband and how by that courage she helped to pull the united states together as well as, i think, to pull together the world. >> but after bobby's death, she was feeling that her children were next. she said they are coming after ken dis, my children are targets. >> jackie kennedy's decision to pull her family out of the limelight certainly protected them. one of the unintended consequences was that when they got. older, there was a real fascination about them. >> ladies and gentlemen, meet george. >> in 1995 john jr.

caroline, go ahead. caroline: what i have for you is facebook.y whenat blew me mark zuckerberg spoke yesterday. 87 million user accounts were exposed to cambridge analytica, ignore that. the fact is every single facebook user could have had their data scraped. every single facebook user, 18% of the entire population uses facebook on a daily basis. 28% of the entire population uses facebook on a monthly basis. all of you could have had they do script by malicious data. that is what one sentence said in a statement that facebook released from and that is what do my mind and this is a chart you should be checking out on gtv. the share price rises even though it cannot get any worse than the statement that every single facebook user could have had their data improperly used. vonnie: terrifying, but also a wonderful chart. it goes to alix steel, i am proud of her for her new show at 1:00 p.m. eastern. mark: she promoted a show, she told us she is the champ, i am going to vote for caroline because this is a great story. social addiction spreads. it goe