litigated is whether or not europe can force google to take it down not just on google's denmark but google u.s., the main google website so you can't see it, so if you want to go back and research the history of someone who's running for public office, you won't be able to find out what their indiscretions or even their indiscretions of 20 you to go. >> you described beautifully. the right to be forgotten comes from a french writer called -- the right of publicity and which is completely french. [laughter] the french all want to be forgotten. americans want to be remembered. but as lee says, i think this is the biggest clash between american notions of free speech and european notions of privacy in the 21st century. if i object, so you are tweeting or one of the c-span folks it's weeding this is a boring interview, and i object, this violated my dignity then google has to decide whether or not i'm a public figure or whether the information is well with to a matter of literary scientific or journalistic interest. if it guesses wrong and they privacy commission and dublin says my dignity has bee

not europe can force going toll take it down north just on google spain or google denmark but on google u.s., the main google web site so you can't see it, so that you want to research the history of somebody who is running for public office, you won't be able to find out what their indiscretions of youth or even their indiscretions of 20 years ago. >> you described it beautifully. the right to be forgotten comes from a french right, the right of oblivion, which is completely french. [laughter] >> the french all want to be forgotten and americans want to be remembered. but as lee says, think this is the big e clash between american notions of free speech and european notions of privacy in the 21st century. if i object -- sayer tweeting 0 or a c-span folks is tweeting this is a boring interview hi and object, this violate mid dignity, then google has to decide whether or not i'm a public figure or whether or not the information is relevant to a matter of literary, scientific or journalistic interest, and if hiss right and a privacy commissioner in dublin says my dignity has been affronted th

>> i am adam and i lead googles u.s. policy efforts. ogle is a search engine company -- was a search engine company that did a lot of great things. [laughter] humble. the right to be forgotten is an interesting issue that a lot of us in the u.s. look at the ruling of this european court of justice and think this is outside the bounds and not something that would gain traction here due to our first amendment and strong intermediary liability principles. i think it's important to acknowledge some of the feelings that motivate the desire for a right to be forgotten. there is more information about all of us online than ever before. that is true. a lot of the search costs for finding bangs have been -- things have been obliterated. you can find a criminal record in the basement of city hall. the internet has obliterated that. people are concerned about the impact. what concerns me about the right to be forgotten is it has not been balanced with some of the other competing values such as the values of free expression and the benefit of the co

sir, i am adam i lead the google u.s. public policy efforts and google is a search engine company that does a lot. it was a search engine company [laughter] and it did a lot of really great thing humble. humble. humble so um. the right to be forgotten is the interesting i think issue that i think is one of the things that i think a lot of us probably here in the u.s. would look at the ruling of this european court of justice and they think that this is you know. outside of the bounds of certainly not something that would deem track here in the u.s. due to the first a menment and the strong liability principles but i think that it is important to acknowledge some of the feelings that motivate the desire for a right to be forgotten the fact is that there is more information about all of us online than ever before and that is true. a lot of the search costs for finding information that used to be hard to find have been obliterated. it used to be that you could fine information about a person's criminal record by going to the

[laughter] >> i am adam and i lead googles >> i am adam and i lead googles u.s. policy efforts. google is a search engine company -- was a search engine company that did a lot of great things. [laughter] >> humble. >> the right to be forgotten is an interesting issue that a lot of us in the u.s. look at the ruling of this european court of justice and think this is outside the bounds and not something that would gain traction here due to our first amendment and strong intermediary liability principles. i think it's important to acknowledge some of the feelings that motivate the desire for a right to be forgotten. there is more information about all of us online than ever before.

google really won that fight in the u.s. now it is fighting that in europe. there is some resentment to an american company that is so successful in europe, and they don't like the way it dominates people plus access to the internet, issues about the nsa and resentment about the u.s. having access to european's information. ultimately i don't think they will force google to split off a search engine, but could there be ways the google organizes its search results? we will see what happens there. >> another international issue coming up in 2015, i-cam. >> yes, that will be a big issue moving forward. at this point it's kind of unclear as to what kind of steps need to be taken. the folks i talk to say there's a lot of -- people are in a holding pattern, especially when it comes to this idea of transitioning u.s. authority away from the internet addressing system. republicans approved a proposal that would basically prevent obama from funding any kind of projects to devolve u.s. authority away from that system. as we've seen, that process has been moving along o

i think that the google really won that fight in the u.s. and so now it's still fighting that in europe. there's a little bit of a different dynamic. there's resentment to an american company that is so successful in europe and they don't like the way it dominates people's access to the internet issues about the nsa and this resentment about the u.s. having access to europeans' information. a lot of play there that's working against google. ultimately i don't think they're going to force going toll split off the search engine. could there be real restricts on the why google organizes search reresults? yes, i think that's probably going to happen. we'll see what happens there. >> brian fung, another international issue. coming up in 2015. icam. >> that's going to be a big issue moving forward. at this point it's kind of unclear as to what kind of steps need to be taken. there's the folks i talk to say there's a lot of people are kind of in a holding pattern. especially when it comes this idea of transitioning u.s. authority away from the inte

u.s. to improve farm animal welfare. >>> google buses are not just for google employees anymore.is is the first full week of google's new free neighborhood shuttle service. ulall-lick electric buses travel. the service began on friday. mountain view is launching a separate commuter today. >>> at san francisco international airport, there are delays up to two hours today due to the fog. ground delay program scheduled to remain in place until 5:00 this evening. oakland international airport is reporting clear weather with no delays. >>> good afternoon. our quiet weather pattern is going to continue for your monday. let's step outside. take a look at a beautiful view at the golden gate bridge. we have some low lying fog there. outside of that, no trouble getting across the bridge at this hour. we do have a couple of trouble spots. tori told you about one, sfo reporting delays up to two hours and oakland still reporting a little bit of patchy fog as well. down to a half-mile for some. in areas like santa rosa, napa, concord, you cleared out earlier than you did yesterday. because of

. >>> google may sell auto insurance in the u.s., they have been running an auto comparison site in britain. they are licensed to sell insurance in 26 states in the u.s. the analysts pulled public filings to see which states have license to sell to google. >> nasdaq posted gains, and the december jobs report is due out this morning expected to show the economy added 235,000 jobs. >>> sales increase from early november to early january. that's far better than last year's half of a percent gain all this from u.s.a. today. >> maribel have a great weekend we'll see you next week. david we have snow out there. >> reporter: we have snow showers popping through the region you see the wide view, i want to give up the two mentional view, this is around i-95 corridor we have the main batch of snow popping through. it is moving from west to east, a little bit of a trajectory from the north to the east. as we go in tiert it's not that -- tighter it's not that it is lasting that long, but it's popping through, it is over areas long enough to produce a slick spot here or there. areas to the south and eas

google bulls, 2015 could not come soon enough. last year wasn't pretty for fans of the search giant. stock underperformed all the major u.s. averages. a big concern for investors? that advertising dollars rewere moving away from google and to a search network. last reported earnings in october. paid clicks a key measure of how often users click on a search ad increased to 17%. that missed wall street's expectations and represented a sharp slowdown from the prior quarter. but google analysts say concern among investors is misplaced. they argue that google is just throwing off a much larger base than facebook which explains the difference in growth rates between the two internet rivals. >> we don't see any clear evidence to take away from google. they take from a larger ad pie from offline and with a major new bucket coming online which we think is tv ad dollars. >> reporter: ad business another real concern among investors, the amount of money google spends to move into new markets. analysts at jahny think google spending on capital expenditures could jump 50% to $11 billion in current fiscal year. the question is whether th

u.s. and more government surveillance he wants on places like facebook and google to try to root out jihadists and terrorists before attacks on his country or ours. >> tracie potts live in washington. >>> new this morning, dramatic travel and trade changes between the u.s. and cuba. while the embargo on general tourists still exists more americans will be able to visit cuba as long as they are part of educational or cultural groups. journalists, medical, religious organizations or family visits. americans will be able to use credit cards use the internet and bring up to $100 in cigars. the changes come days after cuba released 53 political prisoners. >>> duke university is going back on a plan to provide a weekly islamic call to prayer for muslims. the intent was to put an amplifier in the school's chapel. the university says they wanted to promote unity. there are more than 700 muslim undergrads there. they say it ended up causing too much controversy. evangelist grarm urged supporters to withdraw support. >>> days after the attack on "charlie hebdo" the pope is sending a message saying if yo

u.s. futures point low with the s&p 500 on track for the worst of month the year. a tale of two earnings but google takes a hit from the strong u.s. dollar. >> wow, let's get you a run down of what to watch this trading day. we get the first read on fourth quarter gdp. growth of 3.2% versus 5% in the third quarter. january consumer sentiment and chicago pmi are out among earnings. they all report before the open and on a programming note steve sits down with san francisco fed president jon williams for an exclusive interview today at 2:15 p.m. eastern given the interesting debate on whether the fed should raise rates. >> let's dive into the stop toirs we just mentioned. google's profit rose 41% missing forecasts by a wide margin they cut revenue by more than $400 million. average cost per click fell 3%. google rose 1% in after hours trade having initially traded down as you can see it's up 2% today today. >> amazon beats estimates after a disastrous loss in the fourth quarter. results boosted by a rise in amazon customers and stron performance in cloud computing. those costs rose 42%. the company s

u.s. embassies in 1998. fox news. >>> google gets so much terror relates content posted it can't filtter all. 300 -- filter it all. 300 hours of video is being uploaded every minute. it is time for governments to step up to help. google says it gets a lot of help from community groups that flag questionable videos. >>> new details in the case of a woman struck and killed while she was out for a jog. >> the show down in court and the family's message for the judge. >> look at this, do you see a weapon concealed? one woman's excuse when she was caught trying to bring in this on board a plane. >> and two dozen birds released after they were sickened but they didn't go back to the area wheres they were before. why they were released in sausalito. >> high temperatures today got into the low 70s. when i come back i will talk about the warm up that is headed our way. bulldog: oh boy! mattress discounters presidents day sale! what's this? a queen size serta mattress and box spring set for just $397. mattress discounters has the largest

the arsenal with the broad band infrastructure fed the entrance in the marketplace like a google fiber is driving u.s. innovation and ideas peace to offer faster or cheaper service by bringing much competition to the broadband market may also create jobs across the country and often in areas where the isp cannot make the investments themselves. both companies have high bandwidth applications are either of you concerned the draft bill does not have any mention of intered connection is recently used to leverage pavements? >> we are absolutely concerned that interconnection in is not included i agree with what he said earlier with the customer experience regardless of the chokepoint could happen upstream does not matter. . . >> the discussions strip the fcc of authority to even investigate this issue and that is very concerning. >> as long as you give me the time back. >> i don't believe our discussion would welcome that opportunity. and on this piece, we leave that authority with the fcc. we don't do away with that here although it is absent in the bill, it is still resident. so that interconnection we

u.s. drug and -- announcing a deal by google.ccess to the largest anonymous dna base of the time -- of its kind. it raises interesting questions about how dated will be used and how it is gathered. generally right now congratulations for getting the deal out. this is exactly the kind of thing it seems like 23 and me can sort of lead two. crescent is true. this has been a division from the beginning. we would empower people by giving them direct access to genetic information and the toast to understand it. we would invite these people for researchers. >> using simple dna testing or identifying technology, what is the elevator description of it? >> people can order from 23 me.com, they spit into a tube and we look at hundreds of thousands of points in the dna and give them an interpretation of what it means about their ancestry and they can access that information over time as we learn more. >> there is also a suggestion of disease prevention for the individual, but also the gathering of data that can be used anonymously, you guys

the arsenal with the broad band infrastructure fed the entrance in the marketplace like a google fiber is driving u.s. innovation and ideas peace to offer faster or cheaper service by bringing much competition to the broadband market may also create jobs across the country and often in areas where the isp cannot make the investments themselves. both companies have high bandwidth applications are either of you concerned the draft bill does not have any mention of intered connection is recently used to leverage pavements? >> we are absolutely concerned that interconnection in is not included i agree with what he said earlier

google has revealed it secretly gave the u.s. government all of the email messages and metadata of three top members of the whistleblowing organization wikileaks -- investigations editor sarah harrison, section editor joseph farrell and spokesperson kristinn hrafnsson, a longtime icelandic journalist. the u.s. government requested the information in 2012 as part of an alleged conspiracy and espionage investigation targeting wikileaks founder julian assange. in the philippines, at least 40 police commandos have been killed in a clash with militants from the islamic liberation front. it was the first clash between the police and the militants is the peace accord was signed in march. the american-arab anti-discrimination committee is reporting the release of the new hollywood blockbuster "american sniper" has led to an increase in threats against muslims in the united states. the film is based on a memoir by a u.s. sniper in iraq named chris kyle who called iraqis "savages." the organization says it has collected hundreds of violent

google says revenue was squeezed by the strong u.s. dollar and falling ad revenue. >>> you are watching cnn newsroom. stay with us. when we come back there's a promising shift in west africa's ebola virus outbreak. we'll bring you the latest information on that. >>> plus a measles outbreak is spreading across the u.s. we'll te you about the family's desperate fight to stop the anti-vaccine movement. stay with us. ♪ music ♪ ...the getaway vehicle! for all the confidence you need. td ameritrade. you got this. >>> i am happy to be able to report encouraging news about the world's worst ebola outbreak on record. the world health organization reported thursday that the number of new infections fell to the lowest level in some seven months. w.h.o. says the three countries had a combined total of 99 new cases last week. meantime in the u.s. a patient suspected of being infected with ebola is now in a special isolation unit at a university of california medical center. it's not clear if that patient recently traveled to west africa. at least t

had a project called the google wing project that went public in august and they had to do their test and play video in australia. what they wanted to do was not legal in the u.sare these great startups out there and efforts by -- like the google wing project were there is a chance to create a drone industry. i recognize the faa concerns. people have done some stupid things like flying drones near major airports. how do you promote the safe and wise and economically useful uses of the technology while acknowledging that some people are going to do stupid things? how do we get that balance? i think there is an industry ready to take off. >> now the pun is on you. i was talking to someone in the cyber security world about hiring at the nsa. this person told me he came from there and said if you walk out of the best school in america with an engineering degree, it used to be you work in the nuclear program. you would work for the government. now you walk out of school and facebook and google are standing in line of the graduation ceremony to give you a job. are those the people that the faa cannot get a hold up to make the decisions about what could work and what

google has been running a price comparison site for auto insurance in europe. but in the u.s. that would also have to be licensed to sell. the times is reporting google has formed a partnership with compare now.com. it works like a travel site only for car insurance. but the move means google would need to be licensed to sell insurance. the company has not commented on its plans as of yet. >> speaking of cars it's time now for the "action news" traffic report. >> the man who has about four or five of them i think, matt pelman in the traffic center. >> i barely have one. used to have a moped. now i have a car now but not several. good afternoon shirleen and rick. we're watching 95. plenty of cars this afternoon. as we compare the roadways this one is looking pretty slowly. as you can come out of center city and head northbound you start to jam around the vine street expressway the whole way up to the work zone at cottman. southbound starting to deal with that sun glare as you can see and definitely slow as you travel through the work zones. we have a handful of accidents out the

google fiber brings internet speed about 100 times faster than the average u.s. connection. it's already available in kansas city, austan, and provo, utah. now to the lee -- apple does it again. the world's most valuable company post another record-breaking quarter. revenues were $74.6 billion, a 34% jump over last year. net income up year over year. here is tim cook will stop >> interest in apple products is at an all-time high with over half a billion customer visits to our physical and online stores. demand for the iphone has been staggering, shattering our high expectation, with sales of over 74 million units driven by the unprecedented popularity of iphone 6 and iphone 6 plus. >> i phoned flying off the shelves, 46%, up the biggest quarter then they had a year ago. in china sales of 70% in the quarter. apple shares rising in after-hours trading. here to break it down is gene munster. i did a big o with my mouth when i saw that 75 million. >> i did the same thing and i was wondering what the catch was. it just could not be that good of a number and it turns out it's a cl

u.s. high tech giants like apple, google and facebook to give intelligence agencies on the hunt for terrorists encrypted communications. it's a move those companies are resisting, following the public outcry over government snooping following the leaks from national security contractor edward snowden. the president sounded cool to cameron's proposal. >> we shouldn't feel as if because we have just seen such a horrific attack in paris that everything should be going by the wayside. >> reporter: another pressing issue, the upcoming deadline to reach a framework of a deal with iran to contain its nuclear program. the president threatened to veto a bipartisan bill in congress to impose new sanctions on iran, warning the legislation could kill the nuclear talks. >> my main message to congress at this point is just hold your fire. nobody around the world least of all the iranians doubt my ability to get some additional sanctions passed should these negotiations fail. >> reporter: now, it was a surprise that the president was not asked during this news conference whether he regretted not going to par

google has an agenda. it is one of the two or three most powerful companies in the world. if obama surrounded himself for instance, with the u.s. for ford , in transportation. people would have a problem with that. google has an agenda. it has an agenda on network neutrality. they are the owner of youtube. it is not surprising they are hostile to the idea of paying extra because youtube is one of the biggest accusers of broadband on the web. i am a fan of obama. i am not a u.s. citizen so i don't vote and if i did vote, i would have voted for obama. i am politically aggressive -- supportive. but i am troubled by the way in which obama and this company beginning with g and a certain other companies are a little too intimate. after the last election when obama made the announcement to that he was going to pursue this network neutrality legislation he has played into this so versatile five notion that there are these -- this oversimplified notion that there are these people companies out there. these companies that are trying to destroy the internet. it is a children's story. it is being orchestrated by large companies like perha

google play. >>> developing tonight a sign's tack on the u.s. military. senior defense officials confirmed that the u.s. central command a's twitter and you tuba accounts have been hacked and those behind it claim to be in support of the militant group. cbs news correspondent craig boswell has more from washington. >> reporter: just as president obama was wrapping up a a speech about cyber security hackers were attacking a pentagon twitter account. a group appearing to sympathize with the islamic militant group isis breached the central command twitter feed and you tube channel. first was a tweet, american soldiers we are coming, watch your back isis. hackers claim to be in america and p.c. a's on each military base. they tweeted slides showing scenarios with chine and a north korea hack the pentagon and names and information about u.s. military personnel. military officials say images do not appear to pose a security threat or include classified information. the white house is investigating but down played the sign's tack. >> pretty significant differenc

google and yahoo and then we decided to go with yahoo. >> what is your background? >> i spent three years and change at a nonprofit called free press and then several years at the u.s. department of state l and then came to mozilla. >> what is your philosophy when it comes to the internet? >> my individual philosophy, the thing driving my career, is the belief that the internet is an amazing place and that a big part of that is the capacity to be disruptive, and that disruption to be a huge source of innovation as a boon for consumers, society, the market, economic growth. i have worked on a lot of things around that from censorship to net neutrality. >> what is mozilla's position on net nutrality? the fcc will address this soon. >> we weighed in on the 2010-2011 cycle. we have engaged in this debate much more. we believe at the end of the day, the internet needs strong, enforceable, protective rules for the developers on the web. those need to include reasonable network management. they need to be effectively enforceable. >> is that, in fact, the status quo today? why yes. net neutrality is about protecting and preserving the internet status quo. if we don't develo

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u.s. and saudi arabia are in sync. >>> homeless outreach workers are using tablets and smartphones provided by google to take a censusthe homeless. it has a location feature eliminating the need for tally sheets and maps. there may be as many as 25,000 homeless people in santa clara county. >>> and the numbers are in from the sign-ups for san francisco's public housing wait list. these are scenes from two weeks ago when the list opened. the housing authority now says 10,400 households signed up over six days. this spring the city plans to place about 200 families in renovated units in the sunnydale and the potrero hill areas. >>> well, it's meeting day for super bowl xlix -- media day for super bowl xlix but the patriots aren't getting many football questions. the latest on "deflate-gate" come out of arizona on the way. >> and one bay area city is getting richer but not nicer. how people's personalities are affected by wealth. >> from the kpix 5 weather center, good afternoon. we do have our hi-def doppler radar tracking those clouds and we'll show you where it's raining and where it's snowing as the news continues r

google is going wireless. striking deals with sprint and t-mobile u.s. once that will run on sprint and t-mobile. r joining us. what is behind google strategy here. >> a very typical move for google. they do not really like intermedia aries. they basically want

u.s. sanctions on russian banks, all he did was google the words sanctions, russia consequence, and used that to file the reports. the three men have been under surveillance since 2012, and the federal bureau of investigation says they were bugging an office in manhattan. the russians thought it was secure. they documented various conversations. interestingly one where buruakov's handlers lamented the fact that their lives were not like a james bond movie. he faces five years maximum 10 years for not declaring himself as an agent of a foreign government. this is one of several incidents in which russia and the u.s. accused each other of spying >>> seconds of former egyptian president hosni mubarak are out of prison. they were released on bail. they had been convicted along with their father of embezzlement. all three were overturned earlier. former president hosni mubarak is confined to a military hospital. protests in cairo turned deadly. egypt's interior minister denied police were the ones under fire. a young mother was killed whose time moments were captured on camera. roxana saberi repor

the arsenal with the broad band infrastructure fed the entrance in the marketplace like a google fiber is driving u.s. innovation and ideas peace to offer faster or cheaper service by bringing much competition to the broadband market may also create jobs across the country and often in areas where the isp cannot make the investments themselves. both companies have high bandwidth applications are either of you concerned the draft bill does not have any mention of intered connection is recently used to leverage pavements? >> we are absolutely concerned that interconnection in is not included i agree with what he said earlier with the customer experience regardless of the chokepoint could happen upstream does not matter. . . >> the discussions strip the fcc of authority to even investigate this issue and that is very concerning. >> as long as you give me the time back. >> i don't believe our discussion would welcome that opportunity. and on this piece, we leave that authority with the fcc. we don't do away with that here although it is absent in the bill, it is still resident. so that interconnection we

u.s. sanctions on russian banks all he did is google the words sanctions, russia consequences and used that report. the three men have done surveillance since 2012. in fact, f.b.i. says they were bugging an office in manhattan used by russian foreign intelligence that russians thought was secure and documented conversations and one where his hand talked about the fact their lives were like a james bond movie and faces five years maximum sentence for conspiracy ten years for not declaring himself as an agent of a foreign government this is one of several resent incidents which russia and the u.s. are accused of spying. >> castro has broken silence over the relations with the united states. and students at the university of havana said he didn't fully trust the u.s. he did think the two nations should work together and should resolve their differences peacefully in accordance with international principles and rules. gabe has more. >> reporter: this is a statement that comes to the website and this is a state-run media rendition here and this is a letter to the student led university, the univ

u.s. uses digital wallets. apple and google want to change that. from verizon and at&t at the same time. today's addition of the "wall street journal" has the article here.

u.s. treasuries. now that means google apple, amazon and facebook. not the traditional flight to safety.re hardly start-ups as they like to call themselves now. if they are part of this flow of capital. >> absolutely. and mentioned line and we chat and other messaging players will be a threat. and uber, air box, dropbox will start going public. all predictions i think are exciting. >> i have a hard time seeing how he's right both ways on apple. if the apple watch is a disappointment, can the stock really be a flight to safety? because the iphone 6 and 6 plus have been run away successes this year. you are going to have tough comps next year. do you think with the tough comps and the disappointing apple watch launch it is still going to be a flight to safety? >> part of what's going on around the world. >> we've seen that with the likes of microsoft and intel in 2014. i'd be surprised if with apple's tough comps if their flag ship new product isn't blowing the doors off people are going to all of a sudden bid the stock up. >> you have the buy back and returns to shareholder. you have pret

u.s. earnings. alibaba and ford all report before the market open. all eyes will be on google and amazon. of course people are still talking about the fed press release from yesterday. the federal reserve not showing it's hand that it's wavering over whether to hike rates this year. in it's policy statement the fed says it will still be patient. that word patient is still there in raising rates and is upbeat on the u.s. economy setting solid growth and strong job gains. the fed says that while pressures are holding down inflation, mainly oil prices those are intensifying. it's optimistic prices will move back toward it's 2% target. wilfred? >> thanks. let's look in in the markets and we're in the red today and really it's been risk off sentiment that's transferred through different time zones and no particular region has been able to buck that trend over the last 48 hours. you can see the stoxx 600 down .7% and it's been a really steady decline throughout the course of the day having opened slightly less than the .7% we're now down at the moment. let's look in at the individual markets an

u.s. motoring. >> they have hard learned lessons from the last century. for us to jump in and say we can do this better is arrogant. >> google is not the only one shifting gears. -- teamed up with nasa. tesla announced its electric car production to 2 million a year. the raise -- the races on to get driverless cars on the road by the end of the decade. >> let's look at some of the top business stories. shell has scrapped a project. the latest casualty of falling oil prices. a new complex has been shelved because of the new economic climate. investors and blackberry had a roller coaster ride on wednesday after reports of a buyout by samsung. shares soared on rumors of the $7.5 billion deal. they fell back into the 15% after the company released a statement that it was not in discussions with the company. one of 37 firms on a name and shame list. they said they failed to pay more than 2600 pounds to 540 of its workers. >> facebook coming to the office. you do not have to hide behind your computer. >> the product is facebook at work. this is what it looks like on the u.s. itunes store. employees will be able to set up their own

google has a home warehouse. the nsa and the u.s. has a lot of experiments. amazingly powerful and will generate massive amounts of complex -- >> this ends cryptography in the way we understand it. once someone attempts to break down security, security locks up. the nature of security changes. how far away are we and what is the acceleration looking like towards that? >> if we looked at the doubling of processing power every 18 months, that is based around silicon. if we move into a new environment around graphing that could excel or it you might see new chips arriving. graphene is experimental perhaps around next year, we could see a serious change in cryptography. >> coming from silicon valley? >> the nsa is trying to protect the u.s. government from attacks . they are investing huge amounts of money. >> they have not been that successful. >> not yet. >> houses this fit in with artificial intelligence? how do the two things fit together? once computers get better, are they also going to get better at cracking codes? do the two things sit side-by-side? >> th

u.s. by subscribers, according to fierce wireless behind verizon and at&t which may recollects them the logical partners for google. >> t mobile and sprint have a lot of capacity unused in their network. sprint loses customers every quarter more specifically. any incremental customer on board drops almost straight to the bottom line so they have very little to lose in this situation. >> reporter: sprint lowered the risk by the right to renegotiate the deal if google gets a lot of customers according to "the wall street journal." google sprint and t mobile are talking about these reports leaving a lot of questions still to be answered. where google would offer the service, how much it would charge and when it would be available. in mountain view california i'm josh lipton for "nightly business report." >> we begin tonight's market focus with late earnings from starbucks. the coffee chain reported earnings and revenue that matched wall street's estimates. stronger than the holiday season but full year guidance still light. shares did pop initially after the close, before the close, the shares were up nearly 2% to $8

u.s. and abroad in the next year. they say the lay offs will be offset by hiring in other part of the company. >>> google may be getting into the cell phone service industry. they will start selling mobile phone plans directly to customers. they say google would use t- mobile to offer discounted data rates. more affordable plans could bring more people online. >>> two actors who played super heros turned it into a super bowl b. chris pratt and chris evans are the stars of captain america and guardians of the galaxy. if is patriots chris pratt has to visit a boston pete at trick cancer center as star lord with a brady jersey. if the seahawks win on february 1st chris evans has to visit a seattle childrens hospital dressed as captain american and waving the 12th man flag. >>> warmer temperatures and sunny skies are trouble for ski resorts and businesses here in the bay area. we checked in with ski shops and found they are becoming creative to stay in business. that's coming up tonight on ktvu channel 2 news at 5:00. thank you for making us your choice for news. we are always on ktvu.com and you can follow us on twitter a

u.s. chief technology officer megan smith also spoke at the 2014 washington ideas forum. before joining the obama administration, she served as a vice president at google. she's interdo interviewed for about 20 minutes. >> wow. this is quite a crowd. i can sense she actually doesn't want to spend this time trashing blackberries a great silicon valley tradition. i may skip that question. one thing i guess i did want to start on. the white house -- it was in the post today -- that the white house network had been breached again, which made we wonder, are the technologists here and their contractors, will they ever make products that are as good as gmail or should they just give up and switch to the stuff that's getting built out there? >> the technology teams here are fabulous as cto, i don't oversee those. i'm aware of the issues that are going on that, you know, attack not only places like the white house but companies where i've worked before, et cetera. so the main thing there is there is a great team working on this. and they're working through it. we'll see where that goes. >> but you think that the tradition of having government contractors and go