i'm emily chang. our focus is on innovation, technology, and the future of business. talking about the world economic forum in douglas, switzerland. a lot of -- in davos, switzerland. a lot of tech giants there. marissa mayer. randall stephenson. they talked about everything from the future of technology to the nsa. i want to bring in our editor at large cory johnson. good to be in the same place now. >> we have been in separate places for a month. [laughter] >> one of the interesting things about the nsa, the tech leaders pointing fingers squarely at the government. >> it is interesting. certainly sac,o, and yahoo! as well getting these requests from the nsa. here they are at the world economic forum talking about the impact on their businesses. could askd if you president obama one thing, what would you ask for? let's look at marissa mayer. >> what one thing would you ask president for? >> transparency. so users understand the background requests we are getting and how that data is going to be used.

i'm emily chang. at&t is the death star. that is t-mobile's latest jab at the competition. the carriers have been making a lot of aggressive moves to steal each other's customers. at&t offering 450 dollars for t- mobile customers to switch over. t-mobile saying they are going to pay early termination fees and then offering customers a free checking account. this began at the consumer electronics show. john leger at a concert in l.a. last night. no coincidence, it was literally right down the street from at&t. take a listen to my exclusive interview. >> anybody that knows me knows i am a huge macklemore fan and i am going to be right in the front row, hopefully when he dives out and body surfs on top of me and i throw him back. it will be a big night. >> favorite song? >> white walls. i've got a whole list. yours? >> sure shot. for sure. >> i don't want to say anything, but it fits. >> i am not going to take that personally. ok, so we are right down the street from at&t's offices. >> i think three floo

emily chang joins us as well from the west coast. you look at the uproar and debate over tom perkins. i think it is a very balanced twitter response. it is amazing how the speed of media discussion has changed. there are those that totally agree with tom perkins. that say theers entire message was offkilter. what this is really about is the speed of debate on twitter. >> there is zero friction in the media today. everybody can say whatever they want at any time. how do you find what is worth hearing? how do you filter through the noise? that is the challenge. >> is the filter improving? have you seen an improvement? >> i think it is selective. i think people hear what they wanted to hear, they follow the one to follow, they to know what they are not interested in. the good stuff is rising to the top, but it is very selective. >> there is a little bit of improvement as we'll try to figure out what to do. in his conversation, tom perkins answered claims that his comments cast a negative light on the firm that he cofounded. take a liste

i'm emily chang. our focus is on innovation, technology, and the future of business. the microsoft board is planning to name a new ceo after a long search to replace steve ballmer. she is the head of the cloud and enterprise group, so what will microsoft look like and what is the future of the company, especially if bill gates stepped down as chairman? in jon erlichman and corey. y. cloudhas run these businesses which are the future of computing and microsoft has had success growing these businesses when they have not had success over the last 15 years with the great exception of xbox. the other thing that you get , this is anadella guy who is a microsoft guy, has been for more than 20 years, 22 years, in fact. and he is a technologist in the same way that bill gates is. he is likely to think about product first, how to sell it second. he does have some of those same top 50 fortune ceo relationships. so he does satisfy the multiple roles the company has. >> he has been there since 1992. jon, talk abou

i am emily chang. let's get to the rundown. target reveals that the security breaches far bigger than originally thought. 70 million customers may be affected. we look at how it happened. allowsoogle policy people to e-mail you even if they do not have your address as long as you're on google plus. some are already calling it a stocking too old. a new policy of the nsa could of protectingen data to carriers. first, the lead. 110 million. that is how many customer accounts may have been compromised in a massive target data breach that just got a lot bigger. we are talking about names, phone numbers, home and e-mail addresses stolen in addition to credit and debit card data. it is unclear exactly how many customers were affected and if the breaches overlap. target says sales are going to take a big hit. olivia sterns joins us from new york. how many people are we really talking about? we heard about 40 million people last year. now we are hearing 70 million. is that on top of the 40 million? >> it is lik

i am emily chang. our focus is on innovation, technology, and the future of this miss. the pressure is going on apple the nextook to unveil generation of hit projects as it faces its roughest patch since the iphone. shares are down seven percent today. iphone sales missed estimates in a key holiday quarter. this amid more competition and possible saturation. apple says revenue could also fall in the current quarter. tim cook insists the company is growing and new products are coming. cory johnson joins me now from new york. i know you love apple metaphors. has the apple gone sour? how is it tasting to you? >> really? really? perspective is in order. we had a company that was near bankruptcy when steve jobs takes over. and now they have the biggest quarter in its history ever. selling more except for ipads than they ever have before and also the highest revenue before even after the selloff today. the lodges -- the largest market cap. so things look great but the question is what is going to happen in t

but it was emily's sentence too.left to raise their two girls alone. >> i sold off all of our belongings, basically, and i just left the house. and moved in with my parents. >> reporter: when the stolen money was finally recovered, it took eight people four hours to hand count the crumpled bills that arrived in garbage bags. curcio has given up his addiction, and drawing diagrams of armored trucks. he's now taken to drawing pictures for children's books and educating young people about drug addiction. he's already co-authored a book about his wild heist, and is working on making amends with emily. so emily, a lot of people might be looking at this and saying, "what on earth is she doing with this guy?" he's lied to you. he's stolen money. he's cheated on you. why are you sitting right next to him? >> because i never forgot about who he was when i fell in love with him. and i just knew that he was still that person somewhere deep inside. >> reporter: nearly a year out of prison now, anthony curcio, the once local foot

i'm emily chang. our focus is on energy, technology and future of business. i want to get straight to the lead, google is selling its motorola handset business less than two years after buying it. they agreed to sell it to lenovo for just unders about 3 billion. remember, google bought motorola mobility in 2012 for $12.4 billion. it already sold the set top box business and will keep most of the patents but hardware, some 2,000 patents and trademark portfolio going to lenovo. first new phone to come out of the deal was moto x that came out last year. has not been a big hit. multiple price cuts. meantime lenovo is on major acquisition spree, making this deal just days after buying ibm's low server business. the deal does still need to be approved in the u.s. and china. google's c.e.o. said in a blog post, this will enable google to devote our energy to drive innovation across the android ecosystem for the benefit of smart phone users everywhere. on a side note, this does not signal a larger shift for o

i am emily chang. our focus is on innovation, technology and the future of business. as her old gadgets to house bash from wearable gadgets to a house that brews coffee for you, how much of this stuff will actually take off? we sit down with some of the biggest. clear channel ceo will join us in just a few moments. snapshot turned down facebook multibillion-dollar turned down, ceo they walk around facebook head quarters with mark zuckerberg. the first 24ng up hours and it has been quite an eventful 24 hours. seeing all kinds of gadgets. new tv with flexible glass to new tablets from samsung and panasonic. big names have taken the stage, including marissa mayer. she has made it clear that yahoo! is making a big content push. sony ceo also unveiled some new cloud-based gaming services. it will be coming later this year. take a listen to his pitch. >> in japanese culture, we call emotional involvement. stimulate an emotional response. the power to make people say wow . all sony projects must be inspired.

i am emily chang.e are bringing you the best of the coverage from 2013, and that includes our interview with the disney ceo. it struck a deal with netflix to release details on its big-budget, like star wars, episode seven. we spoke with him about the release date. take a listen. thehis is obviously one of most important films that we are working on right now. one of the things that was very important to us was that we give the creative team, jj abrams and his writing team, the time to design a write and produce the film so that we can optimize quality or so that we can create a great film. very important. at one point we considered the summer of 2015, but it out like with some changes we made in writing team that that was going to bid -- owing to create a bit of a rush. christmas of 2015 became the date. time, was released that so we like that. we hope it will bring some good luck. christmas is a good time, we think, for a film like star wars >s. >> there has been so much discussion on blogs about the

i am emily chang in new york.winter olympics are around the bend and i always get warm and fuzzy. >> i love the luge. watching it -- >> i always wanted to be a gymnast. my sister and would do routines in the dark. i think i would've been good. big --d be like flapping my big meat hooks together. >> this story is about a venture capitalist who wanted to be an olympian, too, and he is doing it in a very short amount of time. he became a colombian citizen to become part of their ski team. >> not a lot of competition. >> take a listen to this guy. hey, everybody. in real life i get to say i am a venture capitalist. go this year i decided to through my biggest childhood dream come to make it to the 2014 winter olympics. i've dropped everything and i am pursuing this full-time now. bobsled is cool but you need a team. skiing -- downhill skiing island at it because i'm a snowboarder and i don't like downhill skiing. day has me in beautiful italy. i started skiing in april. i really haven't done sport almost 10 years. thi

i'm emily chang. our focus is on innovation, technology, and the future of business. we have an excuse is interview you do not want to miss. microsoft chairman bill gates mikeng down with bloomberg, former mayor of new york. they cover a wide range of subjects from how they are using their wealth to change the world to the better, to what future won't bill gates may play in microsoft. you don't want to miss it, coming up later this hour here on "bloomberg west." how much room is therefore a social search startup. search enginee answers your questions with the help of pictures. it has been available for about two weeks now. thank you so much for joining us. you could have done anything. why this? accident.i did it by i did not mean to do this. my friend and i were going on a walk and we accidentally asked ourselves the question, what would be billed if we had to build something that can answer any question -- what would we build if we had to build something that could answer any question? and suddenly

i'm emily chang. is on innovation, technology, and the future of business. how to fight cord cutting as more people ditch cable and watch tv through the web or on mobile, we ask the dish network ceo what his company is doing to keep subscribers. busesit was luxury whisking workers from san francisco to silicon valley. now google is trying a ferry across the bay. does this mean more competition? and an investment that has paid off big time for the once team company. buying the movie "filomena." now it is a box office hit with three golden globe nods. has been changing tv viewing habits and companies are trying to change with it. they have been showing off what they think is the future of television at the consumer electronics show this week. you have cable and satellite companies trying to innovate to keep subscribers. time warner cable announced it lost 215 thousand video subscribers in the last quarter. dish, on the other hand, just unveiled the latest expanded set dvr.oxes for its you can record eig

i am emily chang. how much could this hurt facebook business?ant to ring in my guest and jose antonio vargas who has covered facebook as well. there was a study that came out that said facebook has lost 80% of its users. there is this teen question. what did they have to prove? >> they have to address that on the call. our questions on how that will work. people are dying for more information. the company mention something new like that in an earnings call, everyone sort of wonders why. he just said that has been a little less engagement among younger teens. this rocketship, facebook, is growing so fast. will they die like myspace did? >> do you use facebook a lot? >> i can't imagine not using facebook. i cannot imagine what the undocumented movement would be without facebook. >> facebook or twitter? >> enters the community, facebook. but twitter, you cannot be a journalist and not be on twitter. when they drop the teen bomb, of course they will drop usage in teens. you just transition. if you are young, my nieces like vine and snapchat. i'm too

coming up. >> welcome back, i'm emily chang.dent obama is scheduled to speak january 17 about potential changes to the nsa policies. what is he likely to say? let's go back to editor-at-large cory johnson in new york. >> it is a really big deal. not just for civil liberties, but also for the technology is this -- businesses. tens, hundreds of millions of dollars to the nsa. we have a more expert view of this. what do you think of this? >> i think the recommendation will break down into two categories. he has to have recommendations, or implementations, that will give him the xe -- executive authority to implement. for example, not holding on to the metadata. or a policy on when to target leaders of foreign countries. the other category would be legislative recommendations. that would be implemented by congress. perhaps it would provide more oversight to some of the intelligence community is or armed services communities. >> the basic idea here is creating repositories where the information is stored but not used. it will create

i am emily chang. i sit down with the baidu cofounder, robin li, for a rare, exclusive, live interview. we will talk about how he built baidu into china's largest search engine, and the challenges in a country with censorship. his relationship with tech icons like mark zuckerberg. and what he thinks of apple. but first, here is an introduction to the booming business that is baidu. china is one of the fastest- growing economies and tech industries. some 600 million users are online and one of the country's most popular websites is baidu, the google of china. founded in 2000, baidu is china's number one search engine, 100 million daily users. the company went public in 2005, shares jumped on opening day. eight years later it is worth more than $50 billion and has fended off takeover offers from google, microsoft, and yahoo! >> it has been a great growth story for investors. it is positioned to benefit from the growth of the chinese internet market. >> like many companies, it is following its users to mo

i'm emily chang. every weekend we will bring you the best of the west. entrepreneur, a visionary, and a philanthropist. busterwants to add myth to that list. he wants to destroy the list -- myth that poverty and disease cannot be eradicated. he put out an annual letter were he put for this annual letter, -- by 2035t bite there will be almost no -- left in the world. here is the exclusive interview on how they choose their charitable causes to whether or not gates will return to microsoft. board isk that the doing some important work right now. the foundation is the biggest i putf my time, but then work into help as a board member. are you involved with the search for the new chief executive? >> we're working on that. there is nothing new to say. it is a good board. >> do you feel a sense of urgency at all? does the board fill a sense of urgency? >> i cannot wait. then again, you want to pick the best person. they will move at the right pace. >> we had the fortune of having the mayor comeback. we are very happy to have him back. your has that ever hit vis

i am emily chang. twitter got off the ground in 2006.hen, it has grown to 230 million users. how has his experience at twitter influenced the way he runs his new startup? >> it is a different world. in three days, jelly had more accounts than twitter took two years. it is so amazingly quick. you do not keep the growth like that. we get featured in the apple app store, it was crazy. i had to remind everybody that it would go like this, be prepared. do not think it is failure. the way you have to do it is build the system that has growth mechanisms in it. you have to trust that they will work. you not want anything artificial. >> anything you won't do at jelly that you learned from twitter? >> we are not going to go down all the time. again, it is a different world. we can use amazon web services to host everything. we can spin up a new server in a second. with twitter, that was a lot of work. >> twitter is now a public company. how is life different for you? >> not really. it is different in that i have my notoriety, i have the ability to

i am emily -- "bloomberg west." i am emily change. -- emily chang.-mobile ceo was kicked out of a macklemore party a few weeks ago and he restarted -- responded by hosting his own concert in l.a.. hahappened yesterd up with lere at the aone who knows kno i am a huge lemoreans ani ll be right the front row pefuy wh he veout and seron top of me and i thromight. >> fe song >> hite walls have tholeist. yrs? >> "thrift shop." for sure job cocolike "thrift shop?"ft we are right down the street from t-mobile offices. >> at this with a time i think of might be empty. times are tough. i am shocked -- did you say i would -- i shot my mouth off? how did you do that? >> i think if you -- >> what i said is --is a big day for us -- it is a big day for us. mother ship is a egg competitor for us and so far it's been going well for the customers. >> has randy reached out to you ursula? >> is that what you call him? i don't think i'm on the top five list and i don't aspire to be. i have no personal issues with at&t or with -- >> i was going to ask that because it is g

i'm emily chang. we're bringing you the best of our coverage from 2013 and that includes an interview with disney ceo bob iger. our jon erlichman spoke more about star wars and it's really its release date for december 2015 with disney's ceo. >> this is obviously one of the most important films that you are working on right now. one of the things that was very important to us was that we give the creative team, jj abrams and his writing team, the time to design, write and produce the film so that we can optimize quality or so that we can create a great film, so they can create a great film. very very important. at one point we considered the summer of 2015, but it felt like with some changes that we made in writing team that that was going to create a rush and so we didn't think he was optimal for obvious reasons. christmas 2015 became the day. it happens to be the day that avatar which is the number one movie of all time was released. we like that, certainly it will hopefully bring us good luck. chri

i am emily chang. l gates is an entrepreneur, visionary and global philanthropist and now the world's richest person wants to add myth buster to that list. he wants to destroy the myth that poverty and disease cannot be eradicated. the bill and wendy gates foundation just came out with where he sayster there will be almost no poor nations left in the world. he sat down with betty liu and bloomberg, also the former mayor of new york for an exclusive interview and they discussed everything from how they choose turtle causes to whether gates will return as microsoft's ceo. >> i am on the board and the board is doing some important work right now. biggestdation is the part-f my time, but i put time work in and help as a board member. >> how involved are you with the search for the chief executive? >> there's nothing new to say. it is a good board. >> do you feel a sense of urgency at all on this front? you always feel that way and then you want to pick the best person. they will move at the right pace. >>

i'm emily chang. is on innovation, technology, and the future of business. snap chat users exposed. hackers say they posted user names and phone numbers for millions of users. it was a security flaw that they have been warned about. 2013 was a huge year for netflix with soren shares and hit original programming, but what can ceo reed hastings do to keep the momentum going? a massive snowstorm is west butng the mid businesses hoping to stay ahead with new smart files. a problem that will not vanish anytime soon for snapchat. hackers broke into a database and swiped 4.6 million user names and phone numbers. the information was published on redditt. the site was later taken down. in august, they were warned that they were vulnerable. at butched out to snapch have not yet heard back. is aar to talk about it security and private researcher at the american civil liberties union. he is in washington, d.c. joining us from cleveland is the ceo of tusted sec. >> this is a bad incident primarily because users are using the service because they think the company protects their privacy and secur

i'm emily chang. every weekend we'll bring you the "best of west," the top interviews with the power players in global technology and media companies that are reshaping our world. let's get straight to the rundown. from luxury tech buses that have been surrounded by protesters, google is trying out a ferry service instead. lieutenant governor gavin newsom weighs in on whether the tech elite are ruining san francisco. the always colorful t-mobile c.e.o., john legere, was kicked out of an at&t party and now he is trying to steal their customers. we'll hear from the man himself. general motors and audi might seem like unlikely partners for google, but the search giant has teamed up with several automakers to bring its android software to the connected dashboard. first to the lead. google is testing out a ferry service for its employees to bring them from san francisco to headquarters in mountain view. it will stop in red wood city and presumably pick up from there on buses to mountain view. a google spok

alisyn camerota with the day's first question. >> emily, what do you think?here any way to see a bail out if the economics of obama care for insurance companies doesn't work? >> look, this is a shock absorber built in and any way to go in affect if there is not the numbers of healthy people. but it is on track. if we look at the numbers compared to massachusetts which is the test, we are ahead of enrollment on young and healthy. >> according to a router analysis of seven states, they found only 22 percent of enrollees are 18- 34 years old and the administration needs 38 percent of enrollees to be in that magic sweet spot and according to routers, the number is lower than the administration hoped and the math will not work? >> we haven't seen the administration's number. and i think we will see them this week. but what we have seen in the states that relayed numbers 25 percent and a third of young people the healthy is what we need to diversify the risk pole. we'll see the numbers come in. and of the people who visited the marketplace that is 45 percent of you

i am emily chang.ur focus is on innovation, technology, and the future of business. let's get straight to the rundown. ferry serviceut across the san francisco bay, and there is growing tension about the shuttle buses that already transport workers. to weighd gavin newsom in. and the consumer electronics show is chock-full of new products, and we talked about the successful launches in they's office hours, and self driving car is no longer a thing of the future. we go for a test drive in a car that can drive and parked itself. the carriere lead, wars are getting feisty or than ever. you will remember that the t- mobile ceo. kicked out of an at&t party, and now, he is hoping he has the last laugh. earlier today, he said t-mobile , making it thear fastest growing wireless carrier, 1.6 million in the last quarter. again, they call themselves the "uncarrier," and they say they are going to pay off early cancellation fees for those who switched over. here is what he had to say on bloomberg television. >> un

i am emily chang. we're speaking with tom perkins.ou said that you do not regret the message, but you do regret the one word, kristallnacht. your firm said that they were shocked by the words that you use and do not agree. you have not been involved with them for many years. how do you respond to what they said? do understand why there has been a kind of backlash? >> yes. first of all, my letter was not about kleiner perkins caufield & byers. i did not mention them at all. they did not need to say anything. but they chose to throw me under the bus. and i did not like that. they said they were shocked. i sort of feel like the guy saying, look, do not go swimming. there are sharks in the water. you have to understand the warning. i was presenting a warning. and i do not think they got that. secondly, they made a point of my not having been involved for some years. and that is true. and i think as i have distanced myself from the firm, they have a corresponding decline in the firm. but i will not go further than that. in a way, i miss th

i'll be there in a minute. >> there's emily. how stunningly gorge out if there's a video. in the corner we get to see her reaction. >> baby, i love you. i'm trying to propose. i don't know how to do this. >> so he says i don't know how to do this. but i'm going to go ahead and tell you he knows how to do this. ♪ ♪ >> it's an insync performance singing "god must have spent a little more time on you," white outfit, the whole thing, choreographed to "dancing queen" and then the performance of bruno mars' "i want to marry you." and then in walks justin. there's one more touching, beautiful surprise. >> i know your dad can't be here. i just asked your dad if i could marry you. >> that's the end of the internet. >> will you marry me? >> you can't get more romantic than that. >> tell us more about this evening. >> we have justin and emily via skype. how long did it take you to plan this? >> i think it took about a month and a half. all of our friends got together. it was a community effort. everybody new except her and like 500 people september -- kept a secret, which is amazing.

there is emily. how stunningly gorgeous is she? there are lights, candles, it's a beautiful setting. she's meeting him there for dinner. but instead, there is a video and it's being played on a television screen. here is what she's seeing and then in the corner, we get to see her reaction. >> i don't know how to do this. >> he says i don't know how do this, but he knows how to do this. ♪ >> a boy band performance singing "god must have spent a little more time on you." white outfits, the whole thing. and now "dancing queen" by abba. and then a performance of bruno mars "marry you" with like the entire city of los angeles. >> it's like a flash mob. >> and then in walks justin. there is one more touching beautiful remarkable surprise. >> i know your dad can't be here. i just asked your dad if i could marry you. will you marry me? >> you can't be how romantic. we have justin and emily via skype from los angeles. justin, how long did it take to you plan this? >> i think it was about a month and a half of planning. all of our friends go

neighbors say it is their turn to be there for emily knowing the circumstances of the death does not make accepting the loss any easier. tonight the family is planning a memorial so the neighbors around here and friends and colleaguing have a chance to say good buy to him. -- good-bye to him since he was taken so suddenly and too soon. >>> the family of a 14 year old oakland boy who shot and killed his sister is urging them to turn himself in. the boy's father spent the day looking for mario toliver jr. he shot his sister, justice toliver after a fight over laundry. >> we do believe he is still in position of the gun and we want to make sure we locate him safely. >> did building manager says he recorded the siblings and a boy believed to be him walking through a hallway. >>> thousands of surers watched the best big wave surfers take on mavericks. >> reporter: we went out with a harbor patrol boat today and had to told on tight as the waves made for a bumpy ride. we made it to pillar point. etch up close the waves made the surfers seem tie any and the waves kept building. >> the waves

sharon chin, kpix 5. >> alan also chairs and emily volunteers for the annual save the music festivalsing more than $50,000 every year, biggest fundraiser for elementary school music in the belmont redwood shores district. nominate your local hero for a jefferson award online on our website, kpix.com/hero. >>> a mystery in the sky. what people say they saw new year's eve that had them puzzled. >> and a reminder if you have a consumer problem or a question, call our hotline, 888-5-helps- u. volunteers are there right now. we'll be right back. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, family has trouble getting r packages delivered. hear from the woman who saye mi present fr >>> coming up at 5:00, even the first family had trouble getting their packages delivered. hear from the woman who says she mistakenly got a christmas present from the obamas. that and more at 5:00. >>> well, was it just fireworks in the sky on new year's eve? >> several people here in northern california reported seeing mysterious flying objects. glowing lights were spotted in sacramento, auburn and stockton. people who saw the lights de

emily miller is outreasonablinged by this.he is a senior opinion writer with the new york times and author of emily gets her gun. welcome back. and great to have you here. >> emily i will start with you. you are a gun owner living in dc which is a real minority. >> yeah. yeah. all right. and you wrote the book to talk about just how difficult it was to go through the whole process. what is your reaction to the new law? >> i am outraged by it? this is the first time in american history those of us who are law- a boyding and registered our guns have to go back to the police department finger print and pay 48 in frees. it is a gun tax. just like any bill of rights and it is outrageous. and this is going to be in court. dick heller who got the overturn in the supreme court and original ban is appealing this one as well. it is not fair. criminals are getting guns on the streets and not reg uft aring them. why do the law- abiding people have to go to the police station and pay a fine. >> if people in dc were finger printed and pay a

. >> i jt call her emily. >> i'm with ncis's newby emily wickersham. >> what have they been like in lcoming you? >> they have been amazing. i feel so lucky to be here especially surrounded by all these swe people. >> i grew up with a lot of wicker furniture. so i feell very comfortable around her. >> michael weatherley feeling so comfortablble, he wrote her a theme song. >> we calll her wicker bam and she's a wicker lamb. she goes wicker glam when she's dressed up. >> joing tv's megahit seseries, a dream job for this former model and sopranos alum. emily now the new leading lady since cote de pablo's departure. >> have you spoken to cote? >> just spoke with her last week. she's in puerto rico or new york. she's always having fun. >> fun for the new girl just tting started. ♪ emily wickersham >> yea! that was od. >> now america's most controversial family in 201313 with a huge year for the "duck dynasty" clan. no one can debate their success. maria is taking us inside the multimillion-dollar empire. >> they are the most popular family in america. >> i guess the joke is on me. >> 10 million p

>> first of all, thanks for having me, emily.hink the first thing is depending on who the engineers are, they may be freaking out and saying, what is actually going on? >> right. >> i know actually when i first joined twitter the site would go down and we didn't always have a lot of visibility and asked why is it down? >> how would you find out why it's down? >> you need to provide the right instrumentation and people that collect the data to understand what's going on. what's the overall statistics on the environment? in this case, i don't have enough details to understand exactly what they have or not but typically going out and really seeing, looking at what kind of visibility can we get into the kind of current state of the system so we can root cause, what's actually gone, how do we get out of that state and furthermore, how do we do a postmortem so it doesn't happen again. >> put it in context a bit, when you were at twitter, what did you do to get out of the farewell? >> it was bringing in a lot of great people and augment

she is a writer at the washington times and the author of emily gets her gun. emily, welcome back.at to have you here. thanks to both of you. emily, you are a gun owner living in d.c. which is a real minority? >> yeah, legal. there are criminals with guns. >> and you wrote the book to talk about just how difficult it was to go through the whole process. what is your reaction to the new law? >> well i'm outraged by it. this is the first time in american history for those who are law abiding and registering our gun, which i think is a violation of the fourth amendment, and pay $30, a gun tax, like there is any tax on any bill of rights, it is outrageous. and so this will be settled in the court. dick heller who overturned the ban in the supreme court, the original ban is appealing this as well. but it is not fair. the criminals are going out and getting their guns on the streets and they are not registering them so why do they have to make the law-abiding people go to the police station and get fingerprinted and pay a fine. >> ebony, if people were required to go to the police statio

i'm emily chang.are talking about connected thermostats and homes. do people actually want their coffee maker to talk to them you ? like it nice and quiet, thank you very much. thanks we asked more than 760 in the survey monkey shakedown. david goldberg is with us from san francisco. do they really want this? do they want connect did cars, a connect at home? do. think people they don't know what it means when they get to the reality of it and it looks kind of confusing and expensive except for places where they have gotten adjusted to it. jetsons ande the what we imagined in science fiction or the movie "her," imputed is in our home and then there is the reality of it. computers in our home. >> i saw "her" a few weeks ago and now coming out of ces and these demonstrated homes, you see a little bit of reality and fiction merging. haveurious to know what been some of the obstacles that people feel something towards a connected home? why do they feel they do not want it? people felt it was too expensive

♪ >> i'm emily chang, and this is "bloomberg west." watch news and sports 24 hours a day seven days a week if you want to, but what about educational content? a startup taste in seattle has launched an online network that airs video courses all day long. you can take classes on anything from live-action photography to finance. jon erlichman joins me now with more. you can watch all day, but do you want to? >> there's only so much time in the day, but when i think of traditional broadcasting, i think of television. i do not necessarily think of education, but that is what creativelive is. you have this background in the world of entertainment. you work in a senior role at viacom. you help discover nine inch nails, which is pretty awesome. at what point did you say education is where you had to go? >> it's interesting. the cross of media and tech has been throughout my entire career, and when i saw what was happening with education, i thought it would be an interesting opportunity. and you are doing this cross of media business with tech

i'm emily chang. let's get straight to the rundown. why is it your data safe with some of the biggest american retailers? on the heels of the target breach, name and marcus also says it is a -- neiman marcus also says it is a victim. and it is an app that many had given up on, but now foursquare has features to tell you what is good nearby and send you on the spot. we have more on the turnaround. and it is more than just robots. we explore artificial intelligence in a special weeklong series, starting with a look at how ibm is betting watson can do so much more than when jeopardy. -- then win at jeopardy. i'm here with sam grobart, senior writer for bloomberg is this week. he will be with us all week long. great to have you on the show. -- top story of the day. the fallout from the target breach has gotten even bigger. as many as one hundred 10 million customers may have been affected. credit card numbers, debit card numbers, personal information like phone numbers, e-mail addresses stolen. target is getting pretty long on the details.

i'm emily chang. our focus is on innovation and the future of business. let's get straight to the rundown. facebook strikes back at a princeton study that says the social network will be largely abandoned by 2017. is there any proof to it? we discuss. it is not a matter of if but when paypal will be spun off from ebay. the former paypal coo will begin. i catch up with t-mobile ceo john legere at the macklemore and ryan lewis concert. first, to the lead. is facebook still hip? princeton students wrote a paper saying that facebook will lose 80% of its users by the end of the year 2017. facebook rejected the study saying that princeton used google search data to predict engagement trends instead of actual engagement trend. facebook struck back by applying the same methodology. as data scientists, we wanted to give a reminder that not all research is created equal and some analysis can lead to crazy conclusions. is facebook facing waning enthusiasm? joining us is paul kedrosky from san diego. paul, i want