greg powell well other law-enforcement agencies using social media and crowd sourcing information?ood are these agencies that talking to each other? >> there was already a really significant effort before the events of last year. there is a term you may hear called open source intelligence. from the federal side to buy from the federal agencies there is already a movement afoot to leverage social media to gather intelligence for their purposes. i think what has happened post-bust is that at the municipal level you have agencies get more active. the international association chief of police have right -- haveand quite social -- gotten quite socia with thei constituents give nr and are quite attractive with their users. it is a new form of communication for a new channel of information that cannot be a voted in conducting an investigation. ideally in trying to prevent or avert a disaster. is giving some insight into its mobile business as a part of its earnings report. cfo stacy smith joins us to tell us all about it, next. ♪ >> welcome back to the rest of bloomberg west. toel transi

. >>> fisher, brainard and powell, are expected to be nominated. >>> greg joins us from washington, d.c as always. >> good morning, ross. >> the fed's done a good job now, we're not really talking about this. it's a yawn,en is it, another cut in 10 billion, we'll wrap up by the end of the autumn. job done. >> that's what they would like, isn't it? the last meeting in march it was janet yellen's first turn before the cameras. and it was probably a lit more exciting than she and the ref of us were counting on. there was a move in the hawkish direction. she dropped those words, a considerable period could be six months, implying that the fed could raise interest rates in the first half instead of the second half. that was more than we bargained for. it got things excited. we've since seen a few fed officials modify if not fully walk back the hawkishness of those remarks. the data has come in pretty much on track with where the fed and the consensus expects it to be. the weather-related hit seems to have largely faded. the latest data on employment, jobless claims, retail sales, all suggest