thinks that that they don't adequately enforce consumer expectations of privacy should talk to facebook, google, twitter, or any of the other companies investigated aggressively and now under 20-year consent decrees. i'll point out if you look at facebook and google and twitter, the estimates are that there are over billion individual users across the three services. it's interesting. last time i checked, we don't have a billion people in the united states. so we have a case here where the united states consumer protection authority, that the europeans have said is not adequate, is actually doing the work of privacy protection all around the world. i think it's what they should be doing, but we very strongly believe that they should be recognizes for doing it and i think there's good progress in that dimension. the core challenge that i think we have on thissed coin si question is really has to do more as i said with the mechanisms we have for privacy protection in law than the underlying principles. we share a common set of principles with europe. we we share -- and through international agree

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it's a problem for not just google but facebook. google is going out and buying a hand set with respect to march quarter results obviously the last time we saw a selloff in google was back on january 10th when motorola mobility announced the stock was down then. google's core business could be doing quite well but what they are adding on the margin is going to be a detriment to their profit margins. >> and david, advertising the companies bulk business, what do you expect in terms of advertising in 2012? >> certainly they will give some indications as to what they are seeing for trends overall it's more of what happens in the back half of the year. obviously you're going to have factors that boost around the election but trends for the first quarter might be a little bit too unclear for the full year. >> are you expecting integration or is that too early? >> it's a bit too early. china and taiwan have to give approval but one of the things that i would be concerned about if i'm an investor looking at this, more than half of motorola's hand

strong performance comes as the company is locked in competition with social networking site facebook. google has a rival social network called google-plus. ceo larry page said the service has attracted more than 170 million users already, and stressed that it's growing steadily. >>> japan and bahrain reached an agreement on satellite technology. the focus will be on human resource development for bahrain. japan's industry minister yuko edano and visiting bahraini industry commerce minister signed a memorandum on the cooperation. it states japan will send experts to bahrain. they'll train personnel who will control satellites. demand for small satellites is expected to grow in emerging countries, but japan is struggling to sell its satellites because they are more expensive than those made in the united states or europe. japan hopes to promote its satellites to bahrain through the deal. >>> sony has officially announced it will cut about 10,000 jobs worldwide by march next year. the japanese electronicsmaker will post a record annual loss in fiscal 2011 because of its money losing television

that sort of a patriot act for the internet that allows the government to go to providers like facebook and google and so on and ask them for data without a warrant without any of the normal privacy protections in the law and also as these providers start sharing information with each other so basically eviscerates all the existing privacy protections we have now what would this bill do to existing laws that do protect the privacy of american citizens you know laws that require a judge or warrants in order to obtain this kind of information. that's the scariest thing about the bill is it says right at the top that it overturns every other privacy law this one supersedes all of them and allows the government to do the sorts of things that previously did require warrants and court orders and judges and all sorts of due process now it just lets them lets companies share this information without any intervention any process at all. so this is all being debated on the house floor today backers want to come up with a way to make it more acceptable to online privacy advocates like yourself is there a way

google... >> yes. >> facebook and google. >> yes. >> are they on a collision course? >> they are indeed. >> the fight's over what? it's over how-- >> search. how people find, discovery, search. >> say you want to buy a car. you can type "prius" on google and get publicly available information. or you can type "prius" on facebook and get personal advice about it from your friends. are you trying to turn everything we do on the web into a social function? >> i think what we've found is that when you can use products with your friends and your family and the people you care about, they tend to be more engaging. i think that we're really gonna see this huge shift where a lot of industry is--and products are just gonna get remade to be social. >> so you're out here in silicon valley. can you feel a tectonic plates... >> yes. >> shifting over? >> well you can see the talent shift over... >> right. >> you know, there's been a big war about talent and payments, millions of dollars to keep people, engineers at google. >> mark's number two, sheryl sandberg, defected from google

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yeah i think i think the biggest challenge here is you know and there are alternatives to facebook google plus is making a huge push in trying to get people to come over and instead of using facebook to use their platform but the challenges are the same it's having users realize what they're sharing it's either public or not public and i think that's the biggest problem that people don't have this understanding and oftentimes uprising trolls are obscure oftentimes it's very hard to understand where where where the photo that you're posting is going to go and who's going to see it and i think that the changes are you for why it is going to and is that going to go ahead jump in. jump in here just for you cannot let your opinion on it obviously billion of the world fink education plays a big hole in nice and lots of people very quick to jump networks and get involved with folks don't really understand what they're doing going to put information in there and how are these and what can be used to you know of their audit detail you know agree on that one go ahead roland really about education y

google does. clearly, facebook is a competitor to google, and i think we can understand a lot of what google is doing today in terms of their concerns about facebook gaining greater control over what is ultimately a battle for advertising dollars. i mean, both companies rely very heavily on advertising dollars. that's their core business, and they need to provide services that will draw users. but no other company is in google's position which is why we maintain this focus. >> host: but as private companies, and if they're clearly stating what their policies are up front be, shouldn't they be allowed to proceed? >> guest: well, i think they can if it's fair to the use user. we have to understand, for example, how these policies operate. and one of the business concerns that the federal trade commission has always been sense tef -- sensitive to is the notion of bait and switch. in other words, a company can say to a customer, you know, we have a great privacy policy, you should sign up with us, we'll respect your data, we don't do anything wrong with it. and the user says, hey, that sounds great, and

so the big industry like google and facebook is seem to be in favor of the so it seems quite likely that the senate will give in and then the act will finally be passed its should should give through the concerns of the president and the house and the most of the parts of the gov the chamber giving in so easily right and the white house has already threatened to veto the bill i do think wealthy some kind of compromise. well there there have been different stories about what the white house says there's been. there's been voices that saying that . obama. will be two of the last saying that obama will not care so much of the. i think it depends very strongly on the question how much awareness we will. be able to create about the bill and how much awareness big groups. like websites and and citizen groups will be able to create in the next weeks i don't think that there is any need for compromise i think that the. this. is not necessary and i don't think that we should work for a compromise we should work for. totally abolishing this bill because it is not needed what we should do a central

i think google and facebook executives can answer that, and yahoo's had a hard time over the years ashings have changed. and i think probably the first big mistake was competing with google in the search wars when that was not what yahoo was. it was a technology war that google won handily, and they ended up not winning it. and then they moved into an area where they were going to do all sorts of original media content. that didn't work out. and then they moved to another ceo, which was the founder, jerry yang, and at the time he became ceo, microsoft made a hostile takeover bid for $41 a share, or $35 -- it was high, and now it's a third of that. so, he didn't take that offer, which would have been, everyone would have been very wealthy, had he taken that offer. then after that, that caused a lot of damage, they brought in another ceo, carol bartz, who flamed out famously. a very tough lady but was not the right executive, was from the enterprise space, and she jerked it in another direction, and now they have this new ceo. >> what about the board, where have they been during all thi

now and he mentioned governments with and mostly put all the blame on his competitors like facebook and google would not have been able to exist had facebook been around where google first started but i mean what's one thing you know when google sells i guess you could say to advertisers then you start getting annoying ads. i've said well sorry but when they can just hand over all their private information to any government agency and then this legislation doesn't even specify what that government agency is allowed to do with it i think that's the scariest legislation we've seen yet i think any time the government gets involved regulating anything it generally goes south gets overdone and this is just one more example soulfully the internet will rise up again let's dominate this thing and shut it down i do hope internet will rise up and then we will be covering more about this week ok so. who doesn't want to be i guess the i would never really want to be president because it was a miserable job probably the only really good day you have this inauguration day when lehrer everybody loves you thi

guest: there is an issue with the patriots act because it does allow the government to go to google or facebook and get private information, and google and facebook doesn't have to inform the individual. it is interesting, i did look at homeland security list of 350 terms they find problematic if you use them in an e-mail and it's funny because they include terms like pork and vaccine and the term social media itself, and they also include the term organized crime. and you know that people involved in organized crimes aren't saying e-mail saying, love tony, organized crimes. so some of the monitoring mechanisms probably ant even effective. but we do have to admit there are just also huge benefits one can get from social media. if you look at the arab spring and what was accomplished through twitter and facebook and look at things like "patients like me" people who have rare diseases and want to share symptoms so we have to find a way to protect it because "patients like me" one of the dataing a aggregatedot ares was collectingings in. but this is a wonderful way -- something that our founding f

>> i think facebook has a big opportunity ahead of it. google -- >> become the next apple? >> facebook could be gigantic as a company. i'm bullish on facebook. >> rose: apple defines gigantic. >> now apple does, yeah. it's scary to think how big apple could become. it's amazing what apple has done. but i think when you look at the amount people use search engines is pretty flat. and you know, when i-- i have always been interested in why people share things. and when you look at-- but i also got very focused on google, how google works. partly that's how we got a lot of traffic at huffington post is understanding how google works and making content that would surface in google and rank highly in google. the problem with that -- >> and everybody else learned that later. >> and other people are trying to learn it. >> and huff post is good at it. the problem with that is you're thinking from the perspective how does an algorithm work, not from the perspective of how does a human behave? what i love about social is for the first time you can get a lot of traffic-- you know, we h

well a lot of people like to use facebook chat and google talk in web services like that and that's great but these services actually communicate what you're talking about to facebook and google and there is no privacy you know your communications can easily be intercepted by these parties and also by governmental organizations so quick look at those the same thing it tries to establish a similar web service that's easy to use just as easy to use but at the same time there's also a transparent layer of encryption so it remains easily accessible to people who want privacy for you know personal or professional matters but also it makes it so that even me the critter server can see what you're talking about we've been working on the project for almost a year now and it's getting better and better and me hopefully soon it will be very . very impressive we secure and how many people use that now well currently i think we're averaging about three hundred conversations per day on the server so considering that each composition has at least two people participating in it i would say there is at l

much of a wait for the 2000 laid off workers to find new jobs and they should be snapped up by facebook, google and other companies probably over the next three months. >> thank you, david, wall street's reaction? a nine cent increase in yahoo stock. >> a lot more tonight still to come at 6:00. another blow to the america's cup yacht races and a phone shall challenger bows out. >> the giants unveil a major new development for san francisco water front it could anger a lot of fans. >> and later tonight uncertain future of a east bay marijuana school. why backers believe it's no accident. they were targeted by the feds. >>> a little more wind out of the sails for america's cup yacht race coming to san francisco. a french team just withdrew, unable to raise enough money to compete. it's the latest in a series of set backs for the event. we're live with the a look at how the competition and the city will be affected. mark? >> this is a very tough economy to sign up sponsors for a yacht race. and in europe it's worse so, this announcement was not unexpected but here at home we're finding supporters

google is very concerned. facebook coming public at 100. google is concerned. ing public? five reasons. facebook is more powerful. the secret will then be out in terms of head to head search that the facebook experience is a better experience. google's primary product has an inherit flaw and facebook's social search engine is a better mechanism for getting what you need on the internet. google doesn't have data with users that facebook has. in a situation like this, you will get bold predictions. the bold prediction is interesting. this is what you will hear and you will look at if you check this out. microsoft has a plan here and the plan is that microsoft will put bing in the hands of facebook after facebook goes public. they'll take more facebook shares. this is an important thing here. the idea that microsoft has been funding losses at bing, microsoft shareholders want to know what's the long-term plan. we'll see if this comes to fruition. clearly very interesting. if you could attend one of these meetings, this is what you would be told. this is the pitch o

of a wait for the 2,000 laid off workers to find now jobs they will be snapped up quickly by facebook, google and other companies probably over the next three months. in san jose, david louie, abc 7 news. >>> on the subject of downsizing, packing up. still coming up here tonight on abc 7 news, a state clearinghouse that helps millions of people in california may be shutting its doors for good. the giants unveil a major new development plan for the san francisco waterfront. >>> i'm spencer christian in the accuweather forecast center. a chilly overnight in the bay area with frost in some spots. i will show you where in the accuweather forecast. >>> plus, help on the way for millions of people who wake up in the middle of the night and cannot go back to sleep. does this happen to you? [ crickets chirping ] [ traffic passing ] ♪ [ music box: lullaby ] [ man on tv, indistinct ] ♪ [ lullaby continues ] [ baby coos ] [ man announcing ] millions are still exposed to the dangers... of secondhand smoke... and some of them can't do anything about it. ♪ [ continues ] [ gasping ] >>> a search underway fo

cisco would make it legal for service providers like google microsoft facebook to funnel private communications and other user related information to u.s. authorities it would provide the government with unhindered access to private correspondence of every american and mind you it's not just the americans using their services we're talking about your net users from all over the world so that would be done in the name of cyber security they called it cyber intelligence sharing and protection act critics argue who does protect is those providers the likes of microsoft google and others and they're strongly lobbying for the law because analysts say it's not like the companies are not sharing information with u.s. authorities already and your correspondents cannot be monitored it can but under existing laws the companies can still be liable for sharing private information of their customers so experts say the companies want legal protection for what they're already doing that's what the proposed law is about sopa was a different story for them service providers heavily lobbied against it because it

>> don't think there's any other company that dominates the internet the way google does many clearedly facebook is a competitor to google and i think we can understand a lot of what google is doing today in terms of their gaining control over ultimately what is a battle for advertising dollars. both companies rely heavily on advertising dollars. that's their core business and they need to provide services that will draw users but no other company is in google's position which is why we maintain this focus. >> but as private companies if they're clearly state whag their policies are up front, shouldn't they be allowed to proceed? >> well, i think they can if it's fair to the user. i mean we have to understand for example how these policies operate and one of the business concerns that the federal trade commission has always been sensitive to is the notion of bait and switch and it operates in this field. a company can say to we have a great privacy policy, we respect your adapt, and the user says that sounds great i'm going to pick you guys, and they build up a big address book and they build up

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