jon erlichman caught up with megan smith, vice president of google x. started by asking megan about the company's push to get girls to code. >> one thing is concerning is that only 1% of high school girls are expressing interest in coding, and yet all the products they love are made with code so we launched a program called the things you love are made with code focusing on bringing high school girls into this industry. these are fun, collaborative, exciting jobs and girls think they are for the boys and they opt out. we have announced $50 million of marketing and partnerships and other things across the next three years to really help bring the girls in. there is 1.4 million new jobs coming in our industry and we only have 400,000 people to fill them. we need all the young people to know what great, fun careers these are. high impact careers, things that matter that they could be part of. >> when you look at an event like this and still see a lot of men, but the numbers of women who are here have been climbing. have you noticed a difference over the ye

jon erlichman in san francisco at the event.joins us. >> some members of the media were moaning about how long this keynote presentation went today. i think there was, to your point, this idea of android everywhere. to have it available in tv, and in cars. here is one of the executives we spoke to about that. >> android auto is familiar, but redesigned for the car. what it allows you to do is control the absent services running on your android smart phone through the familiar car control. the steering wheel button, console, and it also allows you to project or from your phone into the car all the display information so you can see your album, turn by turn directions. you can see these through the controls on the car. >> if we boil this down to three things people need to know about it, what would be one? >> it is voice-enabled. which we think is a safer way to use your smart phone in the car. you don't need to take your hands off the wheel or your eyes off the road to control android. if you want to play a song you can say play

i spoke with john erlichman who has been following the story from the very start. and joining us is bloomberg contributing editor paul kedrosky. his ted by asking bill take. >> from the very beginning it was going to end up in the court system. any type of telecommunication threat, whatsoever, you have two large institutional masses that know how the litigate and lobby and win those types of battles. if you go head-strong into either one of those trying to disrupt, you're going to end up in the courts, absolutely. >> you have this big investment in uber. surely you guys have thought about it from the very beginning this is going to run into the commission kind of issues. >> there is something very ifferent about municipal regulations and federal regulation. in municipal regulation, it is very easy for a mayor, a city council to stand up and say you know what? those laws may be outdated. maybe we should revisit them and rewrite them. that has happened in d.c., california, colorado. that is much harder on a federal level. we tend to have these laws that have existed

o'boyle, and jon erlichman, thank you. we have breaking news -- uber's valuation source to a record high. it has a valuation of $17 billion, up from 3.5 lien dollars last year. the company hit the market for raising a $1.2 billion led by fidelity investments and sarah friar joins me now. we sort of thought this was coming but now we know it is confirmed. >> there was a lot of competition. reports of other people trying to leave this so fidelity seems to have gotten it. talking to a lot of different possibilities of $17 billion seems to be the can census -- the consensus. >> demand was very much there. notbsolutely, they were raising money quietly. they said they wanted to raise at a record-breaking valuation. the ceo said that last week. this was coming. >> he says this is about capitalizing for the opportunities we see at of ourselves. uber is still just driving people around but there has been discussion what else they can hold as far as delivering packages and taking on fedex. how are close are they to browsing to other

let's figure this thing out. >> jon erlichman, thank you. roger mcnamee will sit with me for a while. we have a lot of other cool story to talk about, not the least facebook changing the way they are targeting ads at users and what this means for advertisers next on "bloomberg west." ♪ >> this is "bloomberg west." i'm cory johnson. two big changes to the face began strategies. in the past, they would target ads to users based on brands and products that they like. they're looking at what sites they visit. also, they will now be able to control the ads they see. if they are not interested, they can try to tune those out. roger mcnamee, early investor in joins me. this is the great promise of facebook in the revenue side and maybe the fear from some users? >> giving control is a big deal. should the one is we really being attention to as a consumer. if you want to opt out of that kind of targeting, you can do so. sensitivity to user privacy concerns has been rising very radically in a last 12 months. view that is very positive. it's clear adve

we have jon erlichman in los angeles. is this really verizon's fault? >> clearly. broadband service providers are not keeping up with demand. verizon for whatever reason is not doing its job. some blame netflix for putting so much traffic out there. >> i don't think so. if you think about it, why do people buy broadband? they buy it so they can have access to the best content of their choice. if anything, shouldn't verizon or netflix have a fee for new for the customers to the market? away.y don't shy jon, is it a good strategy? >> i think there are a couple of things to clarify. i'm not surprised that verizon would go after netflix. they care about their brand and the reputation. there have been situations where at&t has used a certain language about its network being very reliable and fast here at that educates verizon as well. -- fast. as well.ates verizon they are testing something with their consumers. there is a handful in the grand scheme of things. right now inmers the same way you get recommendations on shows you can watch, you will be alerted when there i

jon erlichman is live. what do you got next?ant to talk a little bit from the game developers side. electronic arts is a company we cover closely. last year we were talking about who would be the next ceo. . andrew wilsone has played a key role over the listen, you were announced as the ceo late last year. what has and the priority for you? what would you say you have been able to accomplish so far? >> i have grown up in this ebony. it's a great company. we have fantastic people who come to work every day. -- i have grown up in this company. it was just that maybe we weren't doing all we could. my objective number one was to re-instill a player first culture inside the organization. if you look at the games we are haveng this week, i feel i been making real progress. the feedback has and really positive. >> let's elaborate on that. that is the message. you say, game players, we are here for you. you let them know what the feedback is early in the process? fa >> when you think about player first, it lends you look at the world th

jon erlichman, what do you have? >> houses. 125.r of engineering at google said today that the average android user checks his or her phone 125 times a day. that is great context for some of the initiatives we are hearing from from google, especially the opportunity that lies with a smart watch and beyond. 125 check my phone at least times during our morning meeting every day. [laughter] is that a suggestion that that is more than it used to be? that is a healthy amount of checking and gives us the idea that maybe there is a better way to be doing it. we will see what happens. >> may be unhealthy. i don't know. thank you very much. it the latest headlines all the time on your phone, which you are probably checking right now, as well as your tablet, radio,rg.com, bloomberg apple tv, amazon fire tv. see you tomorrow. ♪ >> i am mark crumpton, this is "bottom line." business and economics with a mainstreet perspective. what is next for aereo after today's loss at the supreme court? picks -- and ag bloomberg exclusive, president bill cli

jon erlichman has it. jon? >> 25,000.y told us that the gopro cameras are sold in 25,000 retail locations and in more than 100 countries. they told us that, they told us a whole bunch of stuff when they unveiled their plans to go public and had to share their financial information. the company said that tony bates, most recently of microsoft and who led skype, is joining gopro as president. >> it is a fascinating company. i have not read the prospectus yet. it seems to be popping up far beyond surfboards and kite boarders. >> that is what they would hope. you were just talking about video. clearly this is a company trying to position itself as more of a media company than just a hardware manufacturer. it probably started with the success of its youtube channel, but now you go on virgin american flights and there is a gopro channel. tony bates is known for skype and cisco, but he has been on the board of youtube, worked on the board of global tone, which was acquired by amazon. i think he is in the same frame of mind. >> i

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thewe go back to e3, conference in l.a., and jon erlichman is there.us now, what have you got next? little bitto talk about the game developer side. obviously, electronic arts is a company we cover closely. last year, we talked about who would be the new ceo of ea, would they go outside, would they go inside, and they went inside with someone who got in early start in sports. you were announced as the ceo late last year. what would you say you have accomplished in your tenure as ceo so far? >> it is a great company, and there are fantastic people who come to work every day to build video games and do really cool things. there was a sense in the marketplace that we were not doing all we could for the player, and my idea was to reestablish a player first mentality. as you look at some of the things we are doing, looking at some of the games we are showing you this week, i think we are making progress, and the feedback from the gaming community has been really positive. >> let's elaborate on that. that is true. you said, hey, game players, we are here for

and jon erlichman in los angeles. fabian e speaking to cousteau.t completing his mission to spend 31 days underwater. him 63 feetseeing below sea level life. i will speak to the leading artists responsible for adding eventsmore than 1000 every year. moved new york city and took a position asto a photographer's assistant. now he lights more than 1000 a-list events a year. he is working on a big project to eliminate -- illuminate harlem. was going to put the spotlight on your little bit. >> the project is called the h in harlem. thes approached by department of transportation's art program and they asked me to put together a project. so basically we came up with the idea of the h in harlem. to blend in with the architecture of the bridge and the neighborhood. i wanted it to be a gift for people. the gift is we were talking about earlier, lighting as visibility. i put a different couple of kinds of light together. and a different structure together. rnallyeading the h inte with this brand-new technology called a meeting -- light emitting plasma. it is

jon erlichman has been at the event all day.l us about the new android tv as well as the wearable portion of android. >> the theme was android everywhere. and also wearable devices. that is an important area. we are watching the smart watch craze unfold. they are going to make the software. here is dave singleton explaining. >> the watch will be available to order later today in the place store. you might have caught a claims of a new devise. samsung is joining the family. this will be available for sale later this summer. these are just the first three watches. there are many more on the way. >> people have been testing out this new hardware. it takes time before you know if it is going to be acceptable or not. >> i can see you with one of those watches. >> i think that we know there is an importance for samsung and these other hardware players to team up with the google and android software. apple is around the corner with its iwatch launch. people can be fickle with technology. >> what about the track record? >> they keep try

joining me is the company's founder and joining us is jon erlichman. something about the potential draft picks who have used your technology. >> they are looking into how they produce force in the ground. teams are looking at the pressure not only to determine where those injury risks lie but also where some performance opportunities are. every player possesses unique injury risk as well. x i have had a chance to check out your facilities. they are impressive. this is an important story. for people who are not necessarily familiar with the nba tell us about the star athlete who is expected to go number one who we have now learned has injuries and that affects the draft physician. what is happening behind the scene and how do teams figure out the true health of a player? >> these players came out of the university of kansas who began using our technology to analyze force production. a lot of these programs, the developmental times was so short. there is less than eight weeks to get ready. the difficulty becomes how do i identify those risks and in this

people are excited to talk about that. >> jon erlichman will be here in san francisco.ng forward to that. thank you both very much. sprint has raised the stakes in its battle with t-mobile. the move is a response to a new t-mobile promotion. t-mobile is really shaking things up. >> what is interesting about this is the long rumored merger coming theoretically between sprint and t-mobile. you look at what is going on here. t-mobile starts the ball moving with this seven night stand that john leger called it basically allowing you to try out the t-mobile phone and service for seven days and deciding whether or not you want to buy it. sprint comes forward and extends that to 30 days and you wonder if regulators are looking at a deal down the road and they are seeing the number three in the number for company competing like this and pushing the ball forward toward consumer friendly plants. why would they accept a merger? it seems that companies are doing a good job of moving forward in a way that at&t and verizon are not. you put those companies together, you could make an

erlichman, senior west coast correspondent, thank you. seidenberg from perkins, stay with us. forgot to take your meds? there's an app for that. helping patients to the medical treatment plans next. ♪ >> i'm emily chang in this is " bloomberg west" on bloomberg television, your phone, tablet, bloomberg.com. looking at how tech is changing the future of health care. four out of five adults take a combination of prescription drugs and over-the-counter supplements. how often are they taking a properly? san francisco-based mango health howdeveloped an app on medications could be interacting. they just raised a series a round led by kleiner perkins. dr. beth seidenberg just with us. of mangod the board health. what did you see in the company? thanks we saw an opportunity to address a huge problem. they just don't take their meds. ofyou look at the cost chronic diseases and not taking your meds, it's in the hundreds of billions of dollars. it's an enormous problem. we see this as an opportunity to have a mobile platform that can engage people.

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jon erlichman will check that out. it is game changing technology.been interesting technology since the days of "shrek." >> they have always been thinking about what the next big thing they can do in technology. you are right. they have generated a lot of money at the box office. in this case, what happened behind the scenes is fascinating both dreamworks and intel working together. here is the full story. >> thinking all is right with the world and i get -- >> we need to talk. >> this is the main character in how to train your dragon 2. the bringing him to life in first movie, dreamworks used this software. making changes took time and rendering those changes took even more time. for dragons 2, dreamworks rolled out new software called apollo. changes were speedy and rendering happened in real time. >> it is never blocking the artist. it is always up to speed and the latest and greatest. >> they are known for the tech savvy approach from partnering with netflix to you term strategy and the recent launch of dreamworks tv. thee animators luck pushing

jon erlichman spoke with the director about everything from drones to elon musk.king about technology and how it factored into the film. >> our generation is the generation that resume that remembers life before twitter. we have seen a lot of good things happen and we have seen people make their lives very complicated. i have been on twitter for five years. i am very careful when i get on there. there are cautionary tales of what happens when you are too emotional or had too much to drink or think you are being funny or sarcastic. it is a whole different language that our kids understand better than we do. >> in the case of your film "chef," there have been so many positive tweets and momentum. shout outs from anthony bourdaine and elon musk. what does that do for a film like this? >> this is an experiment to see if social media is as relevant as the marketplace thanks. traditional marketing where you just dump hundreds of millions of dollars into commercials still rules the day. you see these huge weekends that are dictated by very big marketing machines. i have

jon erlichman sat down with the oculus ceo. he asked about the incredible two-year run. >> it has been an incredible ride. one of the journeys we get to participate in. the community is a big part of it as well and everybody got behind it, launching our kick starter. something we do not do in the past and we would take advantage of the internet and get it out there. it felt like overnight. it was somewhat overnight. within 24-48 hours, $1 million. thousands of people and the company was off to the races. >> some people still fascinated by facebook's interest in oculus. you had been swapping messages with mark zuckerberg. got to the headquarters and tried out the technology and he said, what? >> how can i help? he is a powerful guy and incredibly smart guy. he shared the vision we had. it really came together. we all got together. and mark zuckerberg shared the same vision. he wanted to get in the hands of as many people. we started the company on the foundation of how to get it into as many hands and homes and hopefully, hands

jon erlichman, paul kedrosky, cory, stay with me.ust spoke with an amazon executive about the idea behind the fire phone and how it came to be. what did he have to say? >> it is hard to get him to say anything. they say a lot in their silence. there focuses so much on the customer, on the people that they want to sell the devise to. -- one of the guys who led the business of development of this phone about the decisions they made going into this. listen to what he had to say. >> it is priced with great value. it is a premium smartphone. gigs, aned extra 16 incredible amount of innovation. with this introductory office -- prime, it is a lot to offer. it is a premium phone. it is a great value. it is something customers will appreciate. >> why go with one carrier? had a long-standing relationship with at&t. they been a great partner for us on kindle. >> how so? >> we have denigrate job within delivering books in 60 seconds for many years. we think fire phone works incredibly faxed -- fast because of the at&t network. free backup of pho

jon erlichman caught up with cavanaugh. is the contest is a group of top philanthropists and industry sector leaders. be around somell social entrepreneur r philosopher. if there sector is being energy or clean water or hunger, the entire show will be around bringing in a social entrepreneur's third there will be 10 selected to come up with a solution to that problem. , in the grant we will give each episode a million dollars to make their idea into a reality. >> you just got back from china. you made lots of deals. you are bringing more content to the chinese market. you are also helping to export chinese content to the rest of the world. >> china is a place i have been going since 2005. i shot my first movie there. we parted with the government. we partnered with their content and cultivated. we want to make it more worldwide, there is so much content being made in china. we announced a deal with the china, broadcaster in they own 15 stations, they made a large investment in our company. that is a good validation of the c

for more on what the deal means, i want to bring in jon erlichman.ith us, our special guest host for the hour. why did chelsea make the switch? >> on some levels, this is not surprising to me. netflix is about comedy and chelsea is hungry to find something interesting in the. -- and new. they brought back "arrested development." they have "orange is the new black." the first thing she will do is a comedy special. they did one with aziz ansari from "parks and rec." where i'm a little unsure as there talking about redefining the rules of the talk show. if you think about where netflix has avoided stuff, content so far, it's those things that are really tied to linear television. are you going to get into sports and they will say, not really? it's hard to get sports rights but what's the value of a sporting event after everyone has already watched it when you are an on-demand player. how they avoided topical issues that seem less relevant a week or a year afterwards the key people interested in chelsea handler. they will figure it out. >> i know she's d

jon erlichman joins us from l.a. with more on today's new hollywood.g the dreamworks purchase? right? >> definitely. it was just over one year ago the dreamworks acquired awesomeness tv, which basically brings together all sorts of different youtube channels to create a multichannel network. obviously, there has been a lot of focus on where people are watching television these days. in the case of dreamworks it is a company that has been viewed -- thinking about the future of its own business, which is why they have been fairly proactive in finding new homes for their content, striking deals with netflix and in acquiring awesomeness tv they were trying to make a bet on the future to figure out what it will all mean for them. one year later there had been some discussion that with the help of awesomeness, knowing a lot about teenagers, they would launch a traditional cable channel, but in the end they went online. who knows, maybe they build an audience here and they can take it to cable down the road. >> disney also recently bought maker studios. how d

jon erlichman is there. he is back now with the highlights from the show.t to talk about nintendo. there is -- >> i want to talk about nintendo. there is this general consensus soldthe wii console is not . we asked about the overall strategy. here's what he said. >> i would say that our strategy at e3 this year is about invention and reinvention. invention in terms of a whole new style of play, like amigo, like spittoon. with our other games. and what we are doing with our and with superpt mario 3-d world. invention and reinvention is what we are trying to do. >> do you monitor console sales and headlines get based on that. some of the arguments have been u has to catch up with microsoft and sony. do you do that with the games? >> we do that with the games. but the true state of the business is if you look at sales for what sony has done, microsoft, and what we have done , it is all in a tight circle. there is no winner or loser at this point. going forward, what will the find -- defined as generation are the games. that is where we are fortunate that we ha