google win? is there a place for both of them? what about facebook? >> absolutely. ogle has also bought a drone company to compete with connecting the developing world. there you are competing with satellites and balloons. >> what's a better way? balloons or drones? >> the great thing about balloons is they stay up for weeks on end. their natural instinct is to float. a drone's instinct is to fall. the great thing about the drones is they can stay in one place whereas the balloons float around with the wind. there is a case for both of them. there is no one answer. >> do you see these companies on a collision course? >> no, this is complementary. it is the first minutes of the day of the drone age. there is room for everbody. >> how omnipresent will drones be in the future? >> i think they will be everywhere. they will be in farms, you will see drones over cities. maybe there will be police drones, maybe they will be doing delivery. >> how will they change our lives? >> how does google street view change your life? you know you can open up your phone and see the worl

. >> what do you make of the interest of facebook, google, and amazon, in an industry you have been inor eight years? >> amazon is interested in drone delivery. google is interested in a number of things. they want to use drones to provide internet access. i think both of them are thrilling. they are great technology companies with deep pockets. it is the classic swords to plowshares moment. we are taking what is formerly military technology and putting it in the hands of consumers with the hope that the positive uses will drown out the old military uses. the amazon video was the first time people thought of them in a nonmilitary context. >> how likely is it that they will deliver amazon packages? >> it is some ways off. >> how long? >> a decade. but delivering to the center, where you could pick up the package. rural areas would be easy as well. warehouse to warehouse, we can do that today. once you get delivering to an arbitrary front doorstep, that is a little hard. as the instantaneous gratification movement takes off, we could start to get the next generation of mailboxes where ce

>> facebook with social networking. google in search. >> yet, you argue for the last few decades, we have been in a tech slowdown. have facebook and apple and google not been innovative enough? >> as a society, i would argue we have not done as much as we could have. you have had less innovations in energy and biotechnology, and there has been some, but not as much as we would like. transportation, it is not moving any faster. >> one thing you tell aspiring entrepreneurs is don't copy mark zuckerberg, don't copy larry and sergei, don't copy bill gates. why not? >> the next mark zuckerberg won't be starting a social networking site. the next bill gates won't be starting an operating system, and so in some sense you cannot copy them because they did not copy somebody else. >> you also suggest that they come up with one very important truth that very few people agree with you on. why is finding something nobody agrees with you on the best way to get everyone believe in you? >> i think great companies have a sense of mission. ther

it takes a really, really special person to not be able to be affected by that. >> google and facebookre trying to do the same thing. who wins? >> i think they both win, but in different ways. google wins with respect to the entry point. they own the front door to the internet, and they own the front door to the 90% of the mobile apps. facebook owns the experience once you're there. >> speaking of another big company that you're not fond of, you once wrote that tim cook has created a milquetoast, uninspiring, margin tweaking image for himself. you also said that apple should by tesla and make elon musk the ceo. do you still believe that? >> yes. he is very good at what he does. i think he is probably an exceptional operationally minded ceo. the question is can that inspire the type of creative types to build the next lily pad? i think, no. think of the amount of wealth that is created in a place like that. think of what that means for that individual engineer who has the next great idea. if you're trying to build the next great thing, where the person at the top is not necessarily opti

one of the things i worry about is that facebook google, facebook google or any number of services could disadvantage groups. they could advantage accompanied by showing more data related to that company and less related to someone else. that is the kind of thing that i think is much more concerning. >> i i take your., but i think that the fact is that as these -- as the power of these websites is consolidated and they grow unlike the boston globe where you can go somewhere else but if you are a business impacted financially by where you live in the advertising driven rankings and basically has the right to put you anywhere you want. that is not the way that they do business and there is not a viable alternative. this is an area i don't know they have been given them by the court. it is also true that they are now clearly capable of doing significant financial damage. >> first amendment rights responsibilities and considerations. >> to an extent. , arbitrarily. second there are a lot of alternatives. traffic will traffic will go to the sites that are most useful to the user's or do other

. >> what do you make of the interest in google, facebook, and amazon? amazon is interested in drone delivery. google is interested in a number of things. i think both of them are thrilling. they are great technology companies with deep pockets. this is the classic swords to plowshares moment. with the hope that the positive uses will drown out the old military uses. the amazon video was the first time people thought of them in a nonmilitary context. >> how likely is it that they will deliver amazon packages? >> to your home, that is a ways off. >> how long? >> a decade. delivering to the center, where you could pick up the package. warehouse to warehouse, we can do that today. rural areas is easy. once you get delivering to a front doorstep, that is a little hard. we could start to get the next generation of mailboxes where certain homes end up with well-defined machine-readable delivery boxes. >> you are saying this is going to happen. maybe it is a decade out but it will happen. >> it is happening now in limited ways. dhl has an experiment in germany

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i don't see -- i look at facebook or google and they are trading at very low p/e's actually.y bigger concern has to do with the large burn rates. >> if it does not pop, what happens, is there a downswing? >> there are two things that could cause a correction. one is a macroeconomic. very hard to predict. the second would be the firms that are doing the late stage investments might change their criteria a little bit. i think that is probably the more likely near-term catalyst for something like this, where they start to ask questions about, do these companies really have a business model that can go the distance? we are more cautious. we are still making new investments, but we are more picky for sure. >> what does being more picky mean? >> you will see the uber for this or that. ideas that are a fraction away from something else on the dial, that is a bad sign. i think anything that is too close to the big thing might be something the big thing does one day. so it's another way of saying look for things that are universally different. >> you are on uber's board, an early inve

facebook, google apple.reme wealth creation, all the distraction that then creates extreme amounts of incremental focus, attention, press adulation. the accolades come out of every part of the woodwork. it takes a really special person to not be able to be affected by that. >> google and facebook are trying to do a lot of the same things. who wins? >> they both win, but in different ways. google wins with respect to the entry point. they own the front door to the internet, and they own the front door to 90% of the mobile world. >> don't miss much more of emily's interview on "studio 1.0" tonight, 8:30 on the east coast and west coast. facebook continued its growth with lots more users. the social network has managed massive ad revenue growth, especially mobile. the ceo mark zuckerberg spending faster to chase the opportunity of mobile advertising and messaging, as well as new hires. mark mahaney joins the right now. it was an interesting quarter for facebook. so much to talk about here. the growth in mobile,

. >> and twitter facebook and google have different standards for free speech. twitter is the most speech protected and will only take down speech that threatens and is intended to provoke the muslims -- limitless limitless action where facebook and google have more speech -- if it offends a religious standard. >> twitter has been aggressive on defense and its users rights. c on that point would have been a world where google and facebook have more power over who is private than any king or president or supreme court justice and yet the first and fourth amendments apply to the government and not to google. do we need a constitutional amendment to protect free speech against google and facebook and privacy in the digital age? >> wow i haven't thought about that before. that's an interesting question. i do think we have to sort of evaluate when we go on to facebook and google we think of our choice as being in the public square and a town hall in any way we are kind of the north korea like the totalitarian dictatorship where, where were they decide is the rule for

is not google or facebook or twitter.t has a real business and hundreds of millions of users and a lot of legacy here. don't count them out. we will see what happens as all of this begins to unravel. there are a lot of folks that think that as well. >> you talk to those people doing these valuations, do you get a sense that the bulk of the company is at technology -- adept technology? >> right now, there is a dual path. reset has invested in both things. -- most festive in both things -- marissa has invested in both things. you can make arguments on both sides. yahoo! is trying to play on both trends. >> thank you very much. san francisco judge ruled moment ago about a big lawsuit claiming current loss favor air b&b over home away. we will have the ceo to talk about it, next. ♪ >> i'm cory johnson. this is "bloomberg west." a district court in san francisco dismissed a lawsuit brought by homeaway challenging thereir airbnb laws, claiming they were favoring airbnb. what does this mean for the future of homeaway in san fran

get more upset when they think it's the government monitoring but corporation drg corporations facebook, google, every time you go on line, they know where you have been and they're popping up ad 16r789 we're being watched. with appropriate safeguards and oversight the government should be allowed to monitor some of these sites that want to be encrypted and don't want to let anybody in and might be up to some wrongdoing. so -- >> what do you think mort? >> i think it's a not unusual balance between personal liberties and the concern of the community. there are going to be times where the government says in order to protect the community we have to have access abandon people -- and people say we don't want you to have it. >> what do you do if ne encrypt it? put them in jail >> he's proposeag -- proposing a way to get past the encryption. >> out of time. bye bye. maria hinojosa: up next: guam. governor calvo: we are the most patriotic americans that you'll see anywhere hinojosa: they serve in the military in surprising numbers. maggie aguon: boom, you're going to war. but when we come back, what

facebook, google, twitter have released a lemming diversity reports in recent months.n silicon valley do to turn the tide on issues like race and gender and get rid of the tech bros who are turning up their collars and turning up some noses in technology? ♪ >> i am cory johnson and this is "bloomberg west." recent numbers show a very white and male workforce. they have some advice to help thousands of minority students become engineers. >>this -- we talk all the time about how tough it is for these companies to make these changes. why is it so hard? >> several reasons. there pointing to the pipeline, lack of quantity of students especially from underrepresented populations. what we have learned over 45 years, one of the hardest things is corporate culture. as students matriculate at of college and go looking for work it defaults to a referral system. we notice a lot of companies hire at certain schools and only certain universities. >> a recruiter once told me that google -- they were not the colleges that this person has ever looked at. >> we have been at it for 44 --

c on that point would have been a world where google and facebook have more power over who is private than any king or president or supreme court justice and yet the first and fourth amendments apply to the government and not to google. do we need a constitutional amendment to protect free speech against google and facebook and privacy in the digital age? >> wow i haven't thought about that before. that's an interesting question. i do think we have to sort of evaluate when we go on to facebook and google we think of our choice as being in the public square and a town hall in any way we are kind of the north korea like the totalitarian dictatorship where, where were they decide is the rule for free speech. we have to think about -- personally my decision as let's not have the speech there. i'm opting out to a different way but you could also force them to try to have free speech. there is a precedent for telecom companies having to abide by some standards. that's a possibility. >> we unfortunately -- i could continue this all afternoon. you and your book talks about reform treaty were

we have companies like google and facebook and many others sending instructors to us. ogled the classes. -- two buildsses the classes. >> all of the classes are online. >> everything is online. >> how much do they cost? >> they are free. you can go to each class and take it for free. but if you care about a mentor, if you care about feedback and the certificate, you pay 150 bucks a month. the most recent one we are launching is called a nano degree. >> will apple, google hire me with a nano degree? >> at&t has already earmarked jobs specifically for this purpose. and without disclosing details, you will notice more interesting announcements forthcoming from leading tech companies in silicon valley. >> how did they feel about online education in general? >> since they started working with universities, i slept better, because fewer people are angry at me. and i understand changing the cost structure of education does ruffle feathers. but you have to transform this and really make the university system fit people's needs. >> what is your vision for education, higher educa

should emulate the practices of some of the biggest companies in the world __ amazon, apple, facebook, and google. but an important difference between that industry and energy industry is that people do not notice, let alone care, about energy and climate change until gas prices are high. so how do you make people care about climate change and energy like they do their iphones? >> well, you sort of hurt my feelings they said that people don't care about what i worked my whole career on, but __ but it is true. the fundamental difference. if you think about energy, and particularly the part of the energy sector that i come from, which is the electricity center __ there is nothing more fundamental to modern life in the population is more indifferent to then electricity and maybe water. so how do you make people aware? tthe average american spends six minutes a year thinking about their energy decisions. so that is __ >> compared to some study that i saw that people check their phones 60 times a day. >> yes, i heard that statistic, too. a person picks up the phone1500 times a week. and 90% of people

thousands of tech workers head to facebook, google and yahoo. >> there is a team from the bay area headedhe members will not be playing football. instead it's a team of organizers for super bowl 50 which will be played at levi stadium in santa clara next year. and they aren't likely to be seeing much of the seahawks/patriots matchup. they are headed to arizona to get advice on how to conduct next year's big game. tonight, the santa clara city council is expected to approve time off for the trip and it will cost about $52,000 to send them but that's all coming from private donations and not from city funds. they are trying to figure out how to make sure the fans have a good time and enjoy the game without causing too much disruption. >>> i don't know if you hear sounds beep hind us, but they are cooking in our studio right now. it smells terrific in the meantime, tlc needs your help. ♪ ♪ don't go chasing waterfalls♪ >> after the break, we'll tell you how you can help launch the iconic group's final album. they just announced something very special to their fans. >>> but first, cited for ea

for tech giants like facebook, google who have yet to report, the pressure is on.oining me now, managing director and senior analyst of piper. hi, gene. good to see you. >> hello. liz: right off the bat, i need your response on apple. are you modeling anything about the metrics that they came out with that our viewers should know about, i don't care how far out it is. >> one metric that is powerful they did 17% market share for total cell phones. 17%. remember that number. assuming they hold onto that market share. typically market share goes up a little bit when they release a product. if they hold onto that, that would imply they'll sell 255 phones in calendar '15. they'll do about 190 or 200 million in 2014, so that's a huge jump. just to give you some scope about how much more room the iphone actually has, that's one of the metrics that investors are focused on today and one of the reasons the stock is up. liz: it's interesting because it was such an unbelievable record quarter, and i see another business, cbs, that said one-trick pony. how can apple be a one-t

facebook is taking share. google should be worried about facebook. when you think about this, there is a massive transition going on that the stock under performed. it is down 10% versus the s&p up about 14% in that same time period. the buy side. investors don't believe the consensus for 2015 that earnings will grow 16% and sales will grow 18%. that is ridiculous for one of the largest market cap companies in the world. it is too cheap. the sell side is probably too high. you have seen this transformation of investors going away from the stock. >> i get you like it came back in the after hours session. it also traded terribly in today's session. google was essentially flat going into the numbers. >> i am not giving you the impression to buy with both hands. people are positioned short coming into it. people don't expect the earnings will than great. you have had a lot of people come into this short. you had a lot of people staying away from it as well. at the least you might get a pop. i don't think you buy this thing and close your eyes. >> going b

caltrans says that area has become more conjeferpted due to the influx of tech works at facebook, google yahoo!. >>> a gruesome discovery in berkeley raising concern. it involves parts of dead animals left near vegan restaurants. brian flores is in berkeley now. you are outside one of those restaurants. good morning. >> reporter: i am, dave. good morning. we're in front of this mexican restaurant off adeline. this is one location where a wild boar carcass was found near the restaurant. not too far from here off shaddock another's boar head was also found. want to go to pictures of the car cause taken by a viewer. she says at about 9:00 on monday morning, she and a friend were walking to the store when they know ised the head on top of a trash can in front of -- another tied the head on top of a trash can in front of flocco's. there was another head found on top of a newsstand in front of a another restaurant. >> i thought maybe it was fake at first and looked and it was -- could you tell it was real -- you could tell it was real. >> next door to flocco's is a liquor store. we spoke with

the book is look at new companies that have essentially overtaken our lives, whether apple, google, facebook, amazon those are sort of the big four. we spent so many hours on any given day either on their devices or platforms. how they have built there software how that affects our relationship to each other and our relationship to god. >>host: you have a quotation from kevin kelly we tend to see god reflected in nature but my bet is technology is the better mirror of god. next next to that is the picture of jesus. >>guest: he has the world in his hands. kevin kelly is such a fascinating character one of the early editors of wired magazine and comes from a position of faith. he has looked looked at technology and how we organize our lives how engineers structure things as a way of talking about the ways in which god might be the original technologist. we look at our dna the human genome project to what degree is the information we have in our bodies a reflection? are we wired or encoded in an organized fashion? what role again does god may be the technologist play in that? >>host: are you wo

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that's it for now, but our conversation continues on our facebook and google+ pages. you next time. ♪ >> the united states is changing the way it operates in space. territory that was once largely monopolized by nasa has slowly been ceded to the private sector. >> like all good corporations, these companies are armed with slick promotional videos. and their excellent pr machines are generating hours of airtime, >> well i think we could probably send the first person in about 12 years. >> wow >> and mostly positive news reports. >> it's going to be an incredibly exciting year. and we're very, very happy to be a part of this project. >> but there seems to be a lac

it's thousands of tech workers head for facebook, google, and yahoo. >>> president obama will lay out o a plan for middle class tax relief during his state of the union address later tonight. ktvu alex savidge is in our newsroom with the president's priorities. good morning, alex. >> reporter: good morning, to you. in his seat president obama will be calling for tax breaks for washing family. the if the president will deliver his sixth state of the union speech. still the president will lay out a plan to provide free tuition to community colleges more affordable mortgages and tax cuts for working families. the president feels confident with improving unemployment now sitting at 5.6%. falling gas prices across the country, and even his own approval ratings now on the rise. his first six years in office were dominated by the great resex but as the economy recovers, president obama says it's time to do more for working americans. >> there has been talk for years about tax reform and i think it's something we need. the tax code has gotten complicated. there was hope for awhile there would

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