i spoke to glenn solomon. enn: we want to invest early with them across sectors of focus, like consumer online services like e-commerce, connected devices and robotics and clouds. china, we are seeing lots of entrepreneurs that are coming around for their second or third or peopletrepreneurs who have had experience. columnistsof our wrote a new article saying, everyone knows the asia startup bubble half to pop. what is your response to that? what are you seeing on the ground? glenn: we are focused on the startup ecosystem in china and the u.s.. for us, what really matters is the rate of innovation and the opportunity for companies to build businesses that can grow fast. in china, we see that continuing at an incredible pace. if you look at patent china leads, today, in patent applications and has for almost the last decade. there are more patents filed in china than in the u.s. and japan combined. pairs -- ofon two entrepreneurs that are doing interesting things -- that is where we look for new investments. emi

i spoke to glenn solomon. n: we want to invest early with them across sectors of focus for us, like consumer and online and mobile services, like e-commerce, connected devices, and robotics, and clouds. we are looking for companies in those sectors. in china, we are seeing lots of entrepreneurs that are coming around for their second or third stint, as entrepreneurs or people who have had experience. it really is a richer ecosystem of entrepreneurs in china for us to go back. emily: one of our columnists wrote a new article saying, everyone knows the asia startup bubble has to pop. what is your response to that? what are you seeing on the ground? glenn: we are focused on the venture capital ecosystem, the startup ecosystem in china and in the u.s. for us, what really matters is the rate of innovation, and the opportunity for companies to build businesses that can grow fast. in china, we see that continuing at an incredible pace. if you look at patent applications in china today, china leads the world in patent

emily: glenn solomon, managing partner at ggv. thank you for joining us. glenn thanks, emily.mily: after discussions with state-backed chinese investment group on a deal. $110 per share. the maker of touchscreen technology using mobile devices and computers is targeting a deal announcement for the end of the month when it reports earnings. taste on thursday's closing price, synoptics is valued at $3 billion. yahoo! filing paperwork to update their definition of change. what does it mean for investors and employees? ♪ emily: now to yahoo!, the struggling company filed paperwork amending employee severance plans if there's a change in control or sale. the filing also approves severance tax of executives. what does it mean? joining me is cory johnson. why is this important? cory: it's fundamentally changes what will happen if the company is taken over. yahoo! had a very clear plan for those employees like -- lucky enough to have change of control in their contract. if the business changes hands, if the control is changed to another entity some particular , employees who had this

the big coming up on bloomberg tv, our colleague emily chang will speak toggv managing partner, glenn solomone are going north. >> syracuse, new york where we princetong down with graduate, father of two, presidential candidate, ted cruz . we do have a surprise. ted cruz like you have never seen him before. >> pinball? >> don't say another word. we will be in syracuse tomorrow. tonight,e the debate bernie sanders' trip to rome, and more. >> the debate will be fun to watch. let's get to brooklyn. >> we'll see you tomorrow for more "with all due respect." until then we say, sayonara. ♪ the check's victim at on your first word news. in japan, the search for survivors following a 6.4 magnitude earthquake. the earthquake, which collapsed houses and started fires, was centered 74 miles northeast of japan's only operating nuclear plant. the u.s. will station warplanes in the philippines after ships began conducting joint patrols in the south china sea last month. over and claim sovereignty all of the south china sea islands and adjacent waters. republican party officials are warned not to change the

coming up on bloomberg tv, our colleague emily chang will speak to ggv managing partner, glenn solomong north. >> syracuse, new york where we are sitting down with princeton graduate, father of two, presidential candidate, ted cruz we have a little surprised up our sleeve. ted cruz like you have never seen him before. >> pinball? >> don't say another word. we will be in syracuse tomorrow. we'll have the debate tonight, bernie sanders' trip to rome, and so much more. john: there is a lot going on. the debate will be fun to watch. we have to get going. let's get to brooklyn. mark: we'll see you tomorrow for more "with all due respect." until then we say, sayonara. ♪ ♪ rishaad: it is friday the 15th of april. this is "trending business". i am rishaad salamat. ♪ rishaad: right, taking you to singapore and sydney. asia pacific market snapping their longest rally. , a deal to freeze production will have little impact. sony forced to hold local production lines. investors counting

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