let's bring in emily sherman who's been at one of the protests in russia's capital moscow emily good to see you let's start by just saying what was the atmosphere there at the protest today well the atmosphere i would say was was tense from the beginning even as the demonstrators assembled on pushkin square in the center of moscow there were actually putin supporters waiting for them who basically started a shouting match with them they were shouting for putin and the demonstrators assembling there were shouting for russia without putin and were shouting against putin and soon after that the arrests started there were groups of riot police out in force basically grabbing people out of the crowd and putting them into police vans now there was some defiance among the protesters as well after the police cleared the square some of them kind of returned to the square and kept assembling around the pushkin monument on the on the center at the center of the square as police kept arresting them as well now police here say that three hundred people were arrested just in moscow observers say t

emily: bitcoin, cryptocurrency, is it hyped? reality, a bubble? our determination was at the bitcoin was not a good payment method. y: because the value was shifting dramatically? >> and the speed of those transactions was the main thing. we remain fascinated by cryptocurrencies from a technology point of view and the general speed of execution of the space. i see tons of companies and getting distracted by vanity projects of we will put this data place on that -- database on the blockchain. people are not weathered into the technical details. emily: there is a concern that bitcoin is mostly young and mail. -- male. if the tech industry does not do a better job including people of all backgrounds, what are the consequences? >> the tech industry has to be a place where people of any background or any demographic, or whatever origin, can thrive. there have been big missteps on that front. >> people are paying a lot of attention to the silicon valley and how it is we do things and it has had a real ripple effect around the world. for myself and john, we try to can'tat home and if we build a company into a culture and

for more on this, we go to correspondent emily sherwin. good evening, emily.e have a key issue for president macron, seeking moscow's help in maintaining the iran nuclear deal as the u.s. pulls out of it. what you make president putin's response on atat front? emily: putin reiterated the important of -- the importance of keeping to that iran nuclear deal. he also spoke of lamentable consequences if a deal couldn't be preserved. he also mentioned again that he had spoken to the head of the international atomic energy agency. and he said that iran is fulfilling its obligations within that nuclear deal, so there is really no reason to leave that deal, to break up that deal as it were. it seemed kind of to me to be almost a veiled criticism, or not so veiled, of the u.s., for leaving that deal. from the beginning, russia has been very critical of the u.s. decision to leave the deal. shortly after the decision was made, the foreign ministry said the decision to shut the u.s. was incapable o of keeping to is international agreements. and today, overcome's announceme

important, and that is why those three cities look like good choices. emilys talk about that when it comes to amazon. jeff bezos has 10 people on his senior leadership team. all of them are white. one of them is a woman. amazon's board is 70% male, all white. there are three women on the board. the company just rejected -- the board recommended a vote against a shareholder proposal to use the rudy rule when interviewing new directors, which means making sure there are women and people of color among the interview candidates. what do you make of that? kristi: i was really disappointed to hear that. is great.e rule my husband runs a much smaller company. he implemented the rooney rule for their hiring, and they have been thrilled with the results. i was happy to see in the "recode" article i read about this that amazon employees are speaking up. there was a culture for a long time where it felt like it was ok to not talk about diversity or acknowledged the company's lack of diversity, and it seems like that is changing. whether it is through the rooney rule or

emily: what should trump's okr's be? john: that is a very good question.gine they would be, grow the economy, half the country be respected in and around the world. his objective would probably be "make america great again," right? the objectives are very important to get. so too are the key results. let me say this. sylvia mathews burwell used okr to manage the ebola crisis. government is to be transparent and accountable. why not have a city council adopt this system of goal setting? i think we can and must measure what really matters. emily: let's talk about diversity in silicon valley. we are holding silicon valley to account when it comes to diversity, and i know you are aware of this problem. as you are advising young companies, how do you tell them how to approach setting goals and results for something that is so important but so easily is lost sight of? john: first answer the question why. why we do this work, why we do this is all important, and it will be expressed in both our values and the mission statement. you ought to have a powerful, inspi

b, the price was pretty good. emilyve ceo arianna huffington has been touring the globe on a mission to transform corporate culture. we discussed how much progress she has seen and where she things companies need to do more. arianna: there is tremendous progress because finally, companies are recognizing that it is not about business imperatives, but accelerating business imperatives. that culture is now seen more and more as absolutely essential for the success of a company. at thrive, we call culture the company's immune system. if the company's immune system is compromised, it will be much harder to deal with problems that are always inevitable. to be able to see disruption, to see the iceberg before it hits the titanic. culture is no longer the excuse -- the exclusive province of hr. emily: a group of former facebook and google employees have started the center of humane society to warn companies and pressure to make some changes. what would you like to see from apple, facebook, google? arianna: the first thing i wo

i think overall, the numbers are good. emilywhat about the afp, are you concerned that people are purchasing the cheaper priced phones? i just got off of the phone with tim cook and in general around the iphone x, he said it was the most popular iphone in the quarter every week. and the first time since then that the top iphone has been the best-selling. i think that is an incredible result. i do not have concerns about the price. i think it is priced for the value that it is. an incredible product. julie, do you have concerns about the afp dropping? julie: i would not be concerned for a number of reasons. smartphone adoption in mature markets is plateauing, and these devices are very expensive. it is more like purchasing a pc so the upgrade cycles are slowing. it will be harder to convince consumers to upgrade their phones every two years. it is in line with my expectations. the reasons to upgrade my phone is becoming more and more subtle. it is less about the camera and the screen and the nifty features and more about the subt

that is a good incentive to comply. emily: for more on gdp are, let's it straight to europe where caroline hyde is standing by. : now, it has taken effect. gentlemen, welcome. you, 18 months they had to get it in place but still we understand some businesses are not yet lanford what are the challenges? >> it's two years they have had to get ready for the challenges are that the regulations have been written in a principle-based manner. there are no clear guidelines. there are principles that need to be adopted by businesses. that means there is an enormous amount of sensibility. ability andex interpretation. let's get the interpretation of a lawyer. a lot of these companies we are hearing about our global in nature, but this is block in regulation. it is the eu so how does one company go around navigating that? do they make policy for the eu or does it make things more complicated? >> you're absolutely right. this is a global question because data privacy is on the agenda internationally. we are seeing clients look to do and

and the price looked pretty good. emilylso caught up with drive -- thrive ceo ariana huffington. she has been touring the globe on a mission to transform culture. she talked about how much progress she has seen and where she thinks companies need to do more. ariana: they have made tremendous progress because finally companies are recognizing that it is not about culture trumping business imperatives, but about culture accelerating business imperatives. culture is now seen more and more as absolutely essential for the success of a company. at thrive we call culture the company's immune system. if the immune system is compromised, it will be much harder to deal with problems, to which are always inevitable to , be able to see disruption, to see the icebergs before they hit the titanic. culture is no longer the exclusive province of hr. emily: a group of former google and facebook employees have created the center for humane technology, to warn about technology addiction and pressure companies to make changes. what would you l

people are good to go. emily recently spoke to the ceo of sound cut and take a listen to what he had to say about this explosion and growth. >> spotify is a fantastic development ultimately for the streaming space. we are at the moment now which many of us may not have envisioned a couple of years ago. we are on path of having hundreds of millions of consumers paid for assuming music. we see that return to the industry overall, i think citing development for all parts of the chain. emily: revenue paid in 1999, at goldman sachs says it will get to $41 billion by 2030. how? paul: the goldman sachs figures is for global business and we're talking but u.s. business. the u.s. being the biggest market and driver for the industry, i think that streaming does have the potential to continue to grow the overall pie. and executive from apple estimated the total potential market for paid streaming customers is about 2 billion people around the world, and only 100 million, or 5% are being served by either apple or spotify. em

talks such a focus on bilateral issues including iran's nuclear deal we're bringing in emily share one from one this good morning emily the u.s. president there attacking germany for as economic ties to russia how strong is that bilateral relationship right now. but of course trump is right to mention those strong economic ties germany is russia's second biggest trading partner and trade between the two countries actually increased last year and there's also this nord stream to project which is a pipeline that is supposed to run from russia through the baltic sea and increase oil and gas exports from russia to germany that's in the works but politically there are of course still huge stumbling blocks between the two countries in particular ukraine is the main stumbling block the illegal an accession of crimea in two thousand and fourteen still very much hangs over the relationship between america and putin like a specter and it doesn't seem that putin is backing down on that at all in fact just before americans visit to sochi puts in kind of bombastically opened the bridge that connects russia has been b

issues including the iran nuclear deal to share one is in that black sea town for us right now good morning emily what's on the agenda where you are in such you today. well the meeting today is likely to be very short just over one and a half hours but it also comes after a huge amount of contact between the german and the russian sides americal and putin talked on the phone last week the foreign minister visited the german foreign minister visited moscow and the economic affairs minister visited moscow as well so this is a short meeting but there's a lot on the agenda politically and economically the two leaders are going to be discussing syria and ukraine the conflicts there but there will be a particular particular focus on iran after the u.s. left the iran nuclear deal last week both russia and germany are trying to salvage that deal and just at the beginning of the week the iranian foreign minister was in moscow as well to discuss potentially saving that deal and keeping it going without the u.s. and also german and russian leaders will be discussing most likely the north stream to project t

weeks left until the start of the world cup tournaments bring us up to speed as emily oh how shirts from the d.w. sports desk good morning emily for morning so yeah bring us up to speed on what's happening with your home lives. so the final preparations for the world cup have actually started now the team is gathering in northern italy and the players are coming in one by one niaz already there are a lot of players already there some buying players are coming at the end of the week twenty calls of course so has a champions league final to plan saturday will join the squad next week and that's when things will start getting really intense. world champions bus approached as several hundred germany fans cheered their team on. the trip to northern italy and waited for hours to greet the stars at their hotel but the bus didn't stop for them. to get it safety first and if they came out there'd be too much commotion too few told it so i'm kind of disappointed not to see any players but maybe one or two will come out later. i was. in the end they didn't see the team remained inside the team manager did make an appearance

emily: a trade war is looming. is that good or bad for our country?: i'm a free trader and an economics major in school, yet there are situations in which i do not think free trade works. in china, microsoft when i left was losing about $8 billion to 10 main dollars in profits in china. something had to be done. in$10 million in profits china. something had to be done. asymmetric. you have piracy on one side. i don't mean taking intellectual property secrets, i mean literally using software that has been stolen. i do not think that is ok, and will require government pressure . while i am a free trader, i think some opportunities to rectify some of the noncompetitive behaviors of some of the countries traders. emily: how so? steve: will the u.s. government the chinese to pay for intellectual property it uses? we do not have real trade. literallyand others have tens of billions of dollars stolen from them in china. emily: the founder of all about the said that they -- alibaba said they would create jobs but warned it wouldn't do it if there was a trade

devices in the future being voice activated, voice controlled, so privacy being big right now is a good thing. emily: what about m&a and partnerships? there was a berkshire hathaway, and also a health care partnership, very unexpected. they bought ring, the doorbell company. are you expecting more sort of unexpected buys like this? brad: we never quite know. amazon thatethos at they buy what they can to build. i think that's why they bought whole foods because they had trouble with amazon fresh. if i make a prediction, they are looking to expand the alexa ecosystem, finding ways to get into the workplace, automobiles, to integrate alexa with other appliances. you never know. but that is where i would place my bets. emily: jitendra, do you have a prediction for us? jitendra: logistics is a big area of expansion. to scale revenue, they have to scale the ecosystem. delivery needs a lot of work. they started expanding in different states, but basically once they fix the delivery, they can attack a lot of these acquisition targets that we here in the news, but whenever we hear about the news that amazon

places that have traditional good tech environments that are starting to build a bigger businesses. emily are you investing in? you are not doing early stage, pre-ipo. david: we are looking for three key attributes. seen them execute through multiple cycles and show good product market and fit in with what they do. we are also looking for businesses where the management team and existing investors want to build something large and are not trying to do a quick flip. wantthat ambition, we people that are disciplined. we want them to be able to look at a business model and say not only will it work when things it canng well, but weather a storm if there is an economic downturn. multiple industries, multiple technology types. you have been doing this for about a year and a half. an incredibly long time. anything specific you have learned? seems what we are doing to be resonating. when we find the right team that wants to partner for the long haul and described to them the things we can bring to the top wethe platform, we realize can help them accelerate, potentially, and social -- solidify th

. >> shepard: now for a look at the legal side, let's turn to emily compano. good to see you. >> thanks, shep. >> shepard: this is not about an affair. if the intention about what rudy guliani says to keep negative information from a porn star from getting out into the open during a campaign so that it's not negatively affecting the campaign and you withhold that information, that could be a thing that could be fixed. if you do so intentionally, if you deceive intentionally, that can be a crime, right? >> yes. it triggers a whole host of campaign election laws. i've heard, if it's his own money, if it's the president's own money, candidates own money, there's no limits to that. that's true. the law specifically accounts for borrowing that money and paying it back. i think two issues of the level of the payment structure, it has to do with the intent. if trump paid it back immediately upon learning of the loan, that bodes towards an argument that it wasn't a campaign purpose. as guliani stated, he paid it monthly in the form of a reta retainer which triggers federal

issues including the iran nuclear deal deal sure one is in the black sea town for us right now good morning emily what's on the agenda where you are in such a today well the meeting today is likely to be very short just over one and a half hours but it also comes after a huge amount of contact between the german and the russian sides americal and putin talked on the phone last week the foreign minister visited the german foreign minister visited moscow and the economic affairs minister visited moscow as well so this is a short meeting but there is a lot on the agenda politically and economically the two leaders are going to be discussing syria and ukraine the conflict there but there will be a particular particular focus on iran after the u.s. left the iran nuclear deal last week both russia and germany are trying to salvage that deal and just at the beginning of the week the iranian foreign minister was in moscow as well to discuss potentially saving that deal and keeping it going without the u.s. and also german and russian leaders will be discussing most likely the north stream to project the

howie: someone might seem like a good satirist. emily: you can't interpret sarcasm.kes it hard to do. it's not a perfect science. i'm not sure how well it will work. howie: emily jashinsky, thanks. big changes at fox news. tom wolf was a big journalist in ways you may not realize in final howie: suzanne scott has been named the ceo of fox news and fox business. she also happens to be the only woman in charge of a major news network or network news division. she takes the job that belonged to roger ails. rupert murdoch and his son praised her vision. also you may have known tom wolf who died this week as a novelist or dapper dresser in those white suits. but he had a huge impact on the news business. >> as a writer i'm perfectly delighted to have things remain way they are. the human comedy has never been richer. howie: he helped create what is dubbed the new journalism, marrying reporting to journalism. wolf who dubbed the 1970s the "me" decade. wolfe joined the right stuff on his book. and in his brilliant novel "bonfire of the vanities." it was a fictional look at

good luck 10 years from now. emily: how much of an impact can lps have? should lps have in galvanizing change? melinda: i think we need a lps to start to make those investments. i think they not only need to make investments, they need to open their networks. if you look at a woman, she often doesn't have the same flowrk into the deal with or the level offenders. same thing for underrepresented people of color. they don't have a seat at the table. when they go in, people don't understand their products. it is being willing to take a risk a few times. emily: i interviewed the asked, do you i think online harassment would be a problem today if women have been present at the beginning of this company? he said, i don't think it would be a problem. we were not thinking about how our product could be used to send rape threats are we were thinking about amazing things i could be done with twitter. how different do you think the world or the internet might be if women had been present when some of these early platforms were created? melinda: i think if there was

emily: if they looked so good, why haven't we seen anything from them?id: not close enough to the inside of magic leap to give you insight, but they continue to make improvements on the product and the technology. i think they rightfully wanted to wait to expose something once they were sure it was consumer ready. emily: you are also an investor in sandal, which had a huge victory with the supreme court ruling that the ban on sports betting is unconstitutional. billionompany at one dollars plus. is that a good exit for you? david: that combination is not about the exit. that is about building something that will have long haul rule being the overturned, and the daily fantasy market continues to grow. we are not exiting the business with this merger. we are joining together, holding the stock as a combined entity and looking to grow it over time. then, we will have an exit when the markets value that business where we think it can go given tailwinds. emily: talking about volatility, does this mean you would be allergic to crypto? david: i don't know about

emily: to competing views of the future, it is good for debate. thank you both for joining us.g with television and itv havee bbc held discussions about joining forces to create a british streaming service. focus on-stage talks how the uk's made by esther can work together to create a streaming rival to heavyweights, netflix and amazon. netflix has a plan to millions of stars in the u.k. and 4.3 million households are signed up to amazon prime video. coming up, google is wrong about policy about purchasing election ads, but is it enough to prevent interference in meddling that we saw leading up to 2016 elections? we will discuss. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: this with itself the start of u.s. midterm elections with primers in 40 states and the major issue going forward will be whether they tech. forms are up to the task of taking down misinformation, affecting meddling from political ads. for a refresher, here's what representatives from google, facebook, and twitter is a fight for congress in october of last year. actors usedfor an fake accounts to place ads on facebook and it'

howie: someone might seem like a good satirist. emily: you can't interpret sarcasm.d to do. it's not a perfect science. i'm not sure how well it will work. howie: emily jashinsky, thanks. big changes at fox news. tom wolf was a big journalist in ways you may not realize in final thoughts. but does psoriasis ever get in the way? embrace the chance of 100% clear skin with taltz. up to 90% of those with moderate to severe psoriasis had a significant improvement of their psoriasis plaques. most people were still clearer after one year. with taltz, 4 out of 10 even achieved completely clear skin. don't use if you're allergic to taltz. before starting, you should be checked for tuberculosis. taltz may increase risk of infections and lower your ability to fight them. tell your doctor if you have an infection, symptoms, or received a vaccine or plan to. inflammatory bowel disease can happen with taltz, including worsening of symptoms. serious allergic reactions can occur. ready for a chance at 100% clear skin? ask your doctor about taltz. howie: suzanne scott has been named

emily: so when is the ipo? baiju: good question. mething we're certainly thinking about, but let's leave it at that. emily: baiju bhatt, thank you so much for stopping by. baiju: thank you. emily: coming up the public can , now see thousands of facebook posts by russia to ramp up discord from the 2016 elections and what does it mean for elections to come? this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: more than 3000 russian facebook ads were made public, and the disclosure give you insight into the tactics russians used to create discord leading up to the 2016 presidential election and data on how many people they reached. we bring in bloomberg tech sarah frier and caroline hyde from london. sarah, what do we learn from seeing these ads? that we didn't know before. >> before we had a few examples, we had a handful of them and now we have more than 3500 of them. for me going through each and every one, when this was an incredibleas demonstration of russia's financial investment in stirring up controversy in the united states. this is not a big campaign

emily's here tomorrow. good night. hello there.ause we started off on a very chilly night with a touch of frost in places but for some the sun came up and brought those temperatures up as well and we saw lovely weather watcher pictures coming through with a flower of fields and gorgeous sunsets captured by weather watchers, like this one in sutton coldfield in birmingham. you can see from the satellite, barely clouds in the sky, but a veil of cloud rolling into western part of cloud rolling into western part of the country off the atlantic and that will bring a less cold night to parts of northern ireland and much of western scotland, more of a breeze here, but elsewhere quite a chilly night, you can see the minty green indicating lows and of figures, even in towns and cities, and perhaps below freezing in some places with a touch of frost. we've already got temperatures down to two oi’ already got temperatures down to two or three degrees in the northern half of the country. a chilly start to friday certainly. lots of sunshine abo

by june 15, a final list of chinese goods that would be hit by tariffs will be published. emilys more specifics on what kind of goods and what kind of technology in particular. sarah: when the original list of proposed goods that would be hit by tariffs came out, it seemed to be pretty random, but the trump administration explained that they apparently had an algorithm on how they can inflict maximum pain on china and minimum pain on u.s. consumers. there really targeting china's 2025 plan. their desire, china's investment in high-tech industries to become dominant, the world leader in things like electric cars, artificial intelligence by 2025. it sort of had some odd items on it, like certain dental products or flamethrowers. it also had other items that were apparently going to hit china pretty hard. we don't expect that much to change in the final form too much. again, i think they believe there was a formula to it. this is just the $50 billion in proposed tariffs we are talking about. since then, the trump administration has said there may be another $100 billion they may im

and the price was pretty good. emily: we also caught up with arrieta huffington. has been touring the globe on a mission to transform culture. she talked about how much progress she has seen and where she thinks companies need to do more. >> they have made tremendous progress because finally companies are recognizing that it is not about trumping business but about culture, accelerating business. culture is now seen more and more as absolutely essential for the success of a company. the company new system. if the culture is compromised, it will be much harder to deal with problems, to be able to see disruption, to see the icebergs before they hit the titanic. culture is no longer the exclusive province of hr. emily: a group of google toloyees have -- has started warn companies to make changes. what would you like to see from apple, facebook, google? >> the first thing i would like to see is from the individual. i think there are three ways we can effect change that is absolutely needed in terms of our relationship with technology. the first one is what are the peo

expected them to make the champions league final so if you look at it that way it has been a good season for them emily short's from g.w. sports many things thank you. and we're going to finish this program with a glimpse of the world's highest musicians a french troupe determined to make it all the way to the top. masai band who we do determined not to go out on a high note was thinking maybe a metre and a half in the sky suspended between two mountains in central china. this group here slacklining come by. mining rather slacklining a form of tightrope ing with music and at least this time they pulled off a difficult balancing act and made it back to the can assure you. of. more from us at the top of the other forget so you can always get the latest from our website t w talk coming up next here on g.w. well stories the very best of all reporting this week. earth home to millions of species a home worth saving. google ideas tell stories of creative people and innovative projects around the world ideas that protect the climate boost green energy solutions and reforestation.

want to go to moscow our correspondent in really sure what is on the story for us tonight good evening to you emily's that we've got a key issue for president seeking moscow's help in maintaining the iran nuclear deal even as the u.s. pulls out of it what do you make of president putin's response on that front. well putin reiterated the importance of keeping to that iran nuclear deal he also spoke of the bent to bull consequences if if there weren't if the deal couldn't be preserved he also then mention again that he had spoken to the head of the international atomic energy agency and he said that iran which is fulfilling its obligations within that nuclear deal so really there's no reason to leave that deal to break up that deal as it were it seemed to be kind of to me almost a veiled criticism there are not so veiled of the us for leaving that deal from the beginning russia has been very critical of the u.s. is decision to leave the deal shortly after the decision was made the foreign ministry said that the decision showed that the u.s. was incapable of keeping to its international agreements and t

secretary, emily thornbery. good morning. donald trump to stick with this deal? deal?nk i would have had a different approach. different approach. donald trump i see a bully and i was taught to stand up to bullies. taught to stand up to bullies. government decided to try to appease him. him. holding his hand and inviting him to travel in the gold coach. travel in the gold coach. would your approach have succeeded ? would your approach have succeeded? approach have succeeded? hard for the peace in the rest of the world. the world. from the administration was something else. something else. and what he did was too little, too late. late. do you want the deal to survive without the americans? survive without the americans? of course i do. how can it work without them? them? world who continue to want to trade with iran. that is worrying. not doing so, they should not be trampling on our business. trampling on our business. europe and other nations are sticking with the deal? sticking with the deal? we have to do by way of negotiations. negotiations. have a nuclear deal wi

seth, emily, good to have you both with us. let me pick this up.om people around michael cohen is that he has gone to sort of a dark play, realizing that the president likely won't have his back when the rubber hits the road here. what does that mean for his potential willingness to work with the investigation? >> well, look, he has not been charged with anything yet. so i think there's a couple of steps in between what's happening now and what could happen down the road. i interviewed him at the end of the summer and he said to me, i would take a bullet for the president. and now what he's saying is i would die for my family. so i think that there is a shift in that. i have not heard anything about people asking him whether he'd take a bullet for the president now so i don't know if that answer has changed or not but look, he is completely alone here in new york. he has not been supported by the people in d.c. and by the president. as people close to him have said to me, that is a really dangerous place for michael cohen to be. >> i hear everythin

in fact, we found flowers from all over the country, as soon as you walk into emily thompson's flower shop. goodwelcome. >> reporter: her customers, usually last minute shoppers. people are thinking, i need to get flowers today. >> now. >> reporter: and we wondered here in soho how many of the flowers sold in america are grown in america. emily buying from farmers in new jersey and california. here on the tag, you have low came. >> that's right. >> reporter: people feel strongly about supporting american farmers? >> i certainly do. >> hi, david. >> reporter: those local farmers grateful to emily for selling their ren knock ewe louse. >> we'll have some beautiful flowers. >> reporter: the roses, too. >> right here, we have two variety of garden rose. this is called kate. and this one is called francois. that's my favorite. >> reporter: green valley floral, salinas, california. that american flag, right there on the box. and in detroit tonight, they're hard at work, hoping to celebrate your mom. >> hi, dave. lisa from pot and box in detroit, michigan. >> reporter: while waiting for the spring bloo

expected them to make the champions league final so if you look at it that way it has made a good season for them emily short's from g.w. sports many thanks thank you. and we've got more breaking news for you coming from italy the country's designated prime minister jews there because he has given up on efforts to form a new government this comes after the italian president said your mother raila rejected his choice for economy minister and it also means that new elections on now a possibility. right before we go quick recap of our top story germany's leading far right party the alternative for germany has held a rally in central berlin with some five thousand of its supporters turning out the event provoked thirteen separate counter demonstrations with some twenty five thousand protesters gathering to block the f.t.'s march through the german capital . from the top of the hour including more details on that is for the story you're watching news in then do stay with us if you can't. we've been fighting for decades to take you seriously in the words of one here's what's coming up. talk to double. super

emily: the ban, definitely not good for qualcomm. this could be good for qualcomm. two things working in qualcomm's favor. caroline: emily chang breaking it down for us. coming up, the boston tech scene. our conversation with an investor. this is bloomberg. ♪ mom you called? oh hi sweetie, i just want to show you something. xfinity mobile: find my phone. [ phone rings ] look at you. this tech stuff is easy. [ whirring sound ] you want a cookie? it's a drone! i know. find your phone easily with the xfinity voice remote. one more way comcast is working to fit into your life, not the other way around. caroline: this is a special edition of "bloomberg technology" live from boston's institute of contemporary art. i am caroline hyde. we are looking that the best boston's burgeoning tech has to offer. our next guest is helping to get startups off the ground. john is a partner at crv, whcih ich has been providing capital for decades.ups they just closed their 17th fund to the tune of $600 million. welcome to "bloomberg technology." what are you spending $600 million on? >> w

emily: jeff bezos talked about the threat of more scrutiny. he said all good should invite scrutiny which sounds nice. how big of a risk do you think trust is on amazon? guru: anything with amazon starts to make news. right now, if you look at amazon, they are investing a lot in third-party businesses. -- it iss lesser becoming a marketplace much like ebay. more than 50% of their revenue on amazon is coming from third-party businesses. they are moving into a direction where it does not look too much monopolistic. it is looking more like a marketplace. marketplaces are free. they are free for competition. journeyou say walmart's to change its dna will take 10 years. in 10 years, how is the e-commerce landscape going to be different? be a fiercegoing to battle. it is going one way, and going down.hich prices will go availability will become very, very good. two our deliveries will become one hour deliveries. the selection will be much better. you are going to find a lot of -- anything you're looking for, and the substitute very easily. the deliveries will be muc

. >> good morning. i am emily and i am an outreach coordinator with the union of concerned scientists. thank you for the opportunity to comment today. on behalf of the union of concerned scientists and our nearly 8,000 supporters and members in san francisco, we are encouraged by your recent commitment to move forward with 0 emission bus project and urge you to take seriously the need to convert muni's fleet to 100% zero emission as soon as possible. we appreciate that the city is beginning to address the potential operational hurdles by deploying the fleet and launching the pilot project, and we are optimistic about the results. as you look at the performance measures of the same model of transit buses across engine types, the performance is better if not better than combustion technologies including acceleration, gradability, and torque. as you likely know, cities across california are finding the solutions they need to transition fleet to to zero emission like los angeles and oakland. we believe it's well worth

. >> good afternoon, supervisors. emily loper. council represents over 300 employers across the nine county bay area and we are concerned about the potential impacts of this proposal. we know that the public overwhelmingly believed that t.n.c. and other private transportation are an integral part in the transportation system. 74% of residents region-wide believe that uber and lyft are an important part of the transportation system and also know that despite rising regional congestion, that these services are, the public believes these services are making it easier for them to get around, because it's improving their mobility options and you know, making it easier to connect to and from transit. so, we are concerned it's punitively targeting three company, there are a few more, and without achieving a public policy goal, because the revenue is not designated for transportation improvements, so, we believe that instead of targeting the business community, we should be talking about sound public policy solutions to really reduce road