taylor: that was ed hammond who sat down with the vimeo ceo.'t for this edition of the best of "bloomberg technology," where we bring you all the latest in tech throughout the week. tune in each day at 5:00 in new new york and 2:00 p.m. in san francisco. bloomberg technology is livestreaming on twitter. check us out. @technology, and follow our global breaking news network @tictoc on twitter. this is bloomberg. ♪ david: from the time he was a boy, he knew he wanted to make films. he lost his mother at the age of 11. but he first saw his father cry when they went to see a movie together, showing him the power of telling stories on film. ken burns studied at hampshire college. there he made his first documentary about historic sturbridge village. but it was his hour-long film on the brooklyn bridge that brought ken to pbs, and a partnership that has continued for almost 30 films, exploring much of u.s. history, from the civil war to the roosevelts. now burns brings us his latest work, "country music," airing over 16 hours in eight epse

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taylor: that was atlassian co-ceo mike cannon-brookes speaking to bloomberg's ed hammond.cigarette company juul is cutting its workforce. the company plans to restructure jobs and eliminate some positions, according to a person familiar with the matter. the san francisco-based startup employs 3900 people after a rapid expansion. juul is currently under scrutiny by federal and state officials following reports of a mysterious illness related to vaping and a proposed ban on flavored e-cigarettes. still ahead, transforming b2b payments. a startup wants businesses to transact with each other without third-party risk. we will meet the ceo next. this is bloomberg. ♪ taylor: b2b payments and credit platform fundbox has raised $176 million from global investors in a series of funding rounds. it secured a $150 million credit facility from institutional credit investors. the company is part of a growing theme of startups that want to lend to small business customers and it is banking on artificial intelligence to do that. san francisco-based fundbox has confirmed the latest round do

taylor: that was vimeo ceo anjali sud talking to bloomberg's ed hammond.ad, trying to face the music. the first investor day for alibaba without jack ma at the helm. investors have a long list of questions for the e-commerce giant. we will speak to one of them next. this is bloomberg. ♪ taylor: china e-commerce giant alibaba is holding their annual investor conference. it comes after the backdrop of a worsening outlook for china's economy. the government has increased -- as china's sprawling sector which includes alibaba. over the weekend, hangzhou officials -- in a move they say was to facilitate communication and expedite projects. joining me on the phone from that meeting is rbc analyst zach schwartzman. thank you for joining me bright and early over there in china. let me start with the basics. it is all about e-commerce. makes up 86% revenue for alibaba. what do you need to hear from the company about their e-commerce? zach, let me know you can hear me on alibaba. we do know have their investor meeting that is coming up. it was really interesting, 70%

vimeo ceeo anjali sud spoke to ed hammond on how this move the company forward.i: this really is not a new offering, it is another way for us to lower those barriers for businesses and make it easier. we don't think of ourselves as a marketplace business. we are a software as a service or staff business, but we have this wonderful community, this creative committee of scale. so the ways we can leverage it to add more values to our users is a differentiator. ed: you are also a premium content business. you cannot access it for free. but you have set in the release today there will be no commission vimeo takes so how do you monetize this business? anjali: this is not really a separate revenue line for us. the reason we are doing it is to increase engagement or attention on the platform. like any good staff business, we are interested in building long-term values and relationships with our customers. the vast majority of revenue's annual subscription plans. for us, this is about the more people coming to the platform can make video, the more value they are finding,

that is stefan descheemaeker, nomad foods ceo and ed hammond.n dramatic move earlier on, chief executive carrie lam withdrawingrmally traditional. the next 13 weeks over sometimes went protest. us from hong joins kong. will this end the process? is that sucking that is going to happen? -- is that something that is going to happen? thehe indications from pro-democracy camp is no. they'll most immediate he responded to the gesture, and olive branch by withdrawing this bill going beyond suspending it. formerly withdrawing it from legislative procedures. that was one of the main top demand. protest movements say they have four other demands. if perhaps carrie lam had offered this gesture two and a half month ago in june, perhaps things would not have gotten out of control as many people say with the violence. now, many activists are saying too little too late. wong, a protest leader five years ago speaking in taiwan where he is trying to really support in taiwan. he said, the protest will continue. initially, -- we sell initially that she was going

taylor: that was mike speaking with ed hammond.ropbox is dropping , details on its new services. we will hear from the ceo next. this is bloomberg. ♪ taylor: dropbox is going way beyond filesharing. the san francisco-based company announced new services wednesday, including a new desktop app that functions as a digital hub to let workers collaborate on projects with their colleagues. we found out all about dropbox spaces. : it's one of the biggest changes we've ever made. it's our first step toward the smart workspace, a kolmar and almer, and more focused working environment. it changes this from being a folder full of isles to an intelligent team workspace for all of your cloud content. dropbox is becoming this new app that brings these other apps together. it cuts down on the noise and almer.it smarter and combe taylor: how are you building on current customers? drew: we have built our entire business on collaborating on files, but with the smart workspace, we are going beyond that on a bunch of dimensions. first is supporting ev

taylor: that was ed hammond who sat down with the vimeo ceo.'t for this edition of the best of "bloomberg technology," where we bring you the best throughout the week. tune in each day at 5:00 in new york. bloomberg technology is livestreaming on twitter. check us out. ourhnology, and follow global breaking news network @tictoc on twitter. this is bloomberg. ♪ here, it all starts with a simple... hello! -hi! how can i help? a data plan for everyone. everyone? everyone. let's send to everyone! [ camera clicking ] wifi up there? -ahhh. sure, why not? how'd he get out?! a camera might figure it out. that was easy! glad i could help. at xfinity, we're here to make life simple. easy. awesome. so come ask, shop, discover at your xfinity store today. david: from the time he was a boy, he knew he wanted to make films. he lost his mother at the age of 11. but he first saw his father cry when they went to see a movie together, showing him the power of telling stories on film. ken burns studied at hampshire college. there he made his first documentary abo

cannabis -- shares in .annabis company tilray surged barclays' go to conference and bloomberg's ed hammondo is standing by was tilray ceo brendan kennedy. ed: a lot of the biggest consumer companies here include big beverage. how do they view the cannabis space? brendan: i think there's a lot of interest. there aren't a lot of global growth opportunities, so lots of fortune 500 brands are looking at the cannabis industry as an area for potential growth over the next decade. it?and how to get into that is always a hot question for them, just like it is with the farm-based proteins. cautious,hey are very obviously. when we are in conversations with novartis or anheuser-busch the past they've taken up to a year from that first contact to getting to a point where we can find an agreement. ed: there's some reason for that caution because we have seen this sector eviscerated recently in terms of share price movement. we seen your own company, but also a lot of competitors, get downgraded. is that a function of the market in this sector getting so overheated? brendan: i think it is going to be as

let's bring in ed hammond.ow at this point and if in fact adam newman is removed as ceo, would this help? would.hink it he has become toxic to the investment community in being a figurehead for much that is wrong with this company. they have to ipo if they are going to keep the $6 billion credit line. the pressure is on to do fairly quick. doesng rid of adam newman ease several things but it will be interesting if investors treat this company as having prospects at all. shery: we were talking about governance changes within we work. would that have helped and will we see those efforts play out even if adam newman is removed? ed: within reason, yes. the governance changes are not something you can just do unilaterally. there needs to be approval from the board and the shareholders. have a lot of shares. take companies coming to market, they have dual class shares. it is not as easy as saying the right thing is to remove him and make government changes. the need to get approval from him and he will have backers t

might -- taylor: that was the ceo of the data dog with ed hammond.up, and internet unit napsff of south africa's berg traded publicly for the first time in europe this week. we check in on the performance with its ceo next. richestd's second person on climate change, we hear from bill gates and his kind of the action we can take now to protect the planet. this is bloomberg ♪. taylor: just last week investors piled into the newly listed internet unit from south africa nass burrs. as 32%jumped as much above its reference point before declining. prosus pulls assets including a lucrative stake in china's tencent holding. i caught up with the ceo and asked what he sees in prosus that investors should be open to. was quite positive and we expected it to be somewhat volatile. and thenew listing shareholders have not received their shares. ony will only get them monday. there will be more activity going forward. generally i think people are excited to have a large consumer internet group listed in europe, we are the largest consumer internet group in europe.

ceo andreas fibig sat down with ed hammond to discuss what he is excited about the opportunity ahead. we see right now is that some of our customers are not growing as fast as they probably have wished for, but what we see in our r&d facilities is more and more of our customers are showing up looking for innovation to reinvigorate actually that growth. what we see in our business is very strong on business. we have solid growth in the single digits. we saw a little bit of a different story on the pay side. we believe that will come back in the second half of the year. plant-based proteins, fake meat, whatever you want to call area that seems like an you are very well positioned to take advantage of. see a lot of it throughout flavoring and texture rising fake meat. how do you put into that, firstly? i would love to know how big you think it will get? andreas: absolutely. plant-based meat products is becoming more and more important. i would say it started in the u.s. we talked about beyond meat for example. you see there is a good demand for it and more products coming on. now it goes

taylor: that was dated august ceo with bloomberg's ed hammond.ing startup get lab just raised its latest funding round, bringing the evaluation for the coding, development and collaboration platform to $2.75 billion, more than double its last valuation. here to tell me more about its state is none other than the ceo. thanks so much for joining me. let's talk about that funding round. where are you using that money? >> there is a transformation going on. it used to be you had good solutions and worked to that. people want to go faster and faster and jumping from those point solutions is getting harder and harder. the problem is integration. the trend is a single application to get you from what you want to build all the way to monitoring and securing that. at gitlab we have that and the planning and the securing and the monitoring will be as good as possible. that is why we have raised the money. taylor: i want to talk about valuation. we have seen volatile valuation. wework, uber. how do you manage a company that avoids that volatility? >> that i

bloomberg's at hammond -- ed hammond caught up with the ceo at the nasdaq. >> you have to solve the realem for real customers. that's what we do. the way that we settled this and focus on making customers' lives simpler and helping them run their infrastructures and applications. ed: how do you grow in terms of market share because you have a lot of competitors. it is a very crowded space nonetheless in cloud. have you compete with these companies in the world? olivier: it is a very big market. and it is a market that is growing very fast. there is room for many companies to be successful. really, the way we compete is that we focus on cloud and companies moving from public to private clouds. we build on that from day one. we focus on getting to the maximum level with reach within those companies that is being used by as many of their engineers as possible. that is what makes us different. ed: what is the point of differentiation of this company? olivier: we are trying to make data more accessible. we started between teams that were separate or did not actually see eye to eye or look at

sense that they are not going to put up with it and we had philip hammond saying boris johnson faced the fight of his life, carolyn noakes, edon, boris johnson could have a significant problem on his hands if seats go to these independent toadies. labour mp ian murray is tweeting evenjo johnson knows his brother can't be trusted to make decisions in the national interest. how much will this undercut the speech and the appeal that boris johnson is this undercut the speech and the appeal that borisjohnson is due to make this afternoon? doesn't itjust underscore the fact that boris johnson is a love or loathe figure? it sort of fits into where we are with politics, such a divided country. you saw at prime minister's questions yesterday the sheer animosity towards boris johnson from the labour benches and his opponents. genuinely, yes, people we re opponents. genuinely, yes, people were critical of theresa may and david cameron. it's different with borisjohnson. people bluntly don't trust him, they don't believe him. and for the prime minister it's very difficult to operate when you have no trust. people are not willing to accep