cory: groupon cofounder andrew mason. the creative team behind hbo's "silicon valley." -- valley" talks about the new season. ♪ cory: this is the "best of bloomberg west." i'm cory johnson. hbo's "silicon valley" returns this week. it is produced by two people who are no strangers to making it big in comedy. mike judge from "office space," "king of the hill," and, of course "beavis & butthead." mike: the second season is the story about what happens to a company. techcrunch just finished. they are a hit. it's them going to the next level. series a financing and all the bad things and good things that can happen. emily: the winklevoss twins make a cameo. evan spiegel, the ceo of snapchat we will see him at some point. mike: this is true. emily: is there a good -- joke in this series? mike: at least one. i think it is a good one. emily: it is a joke worthy of season one? mike: they are all our babies. who can choose to say which is better than which other? emily: it might be the most talked about moment from season one and

has that help to recover from the battle scars at groupon. i feel good and happy about the whole groupon experience and grateful to be of been a part of it. we had some ups and downs, but that is part of the territory. everything about that experience , that was one thing, this is the next. i have -- i feel grateful for the opportunity. cory: andrew mason. up next the team behind hbo's "silicon valley." ♪ cory: this is the best of bloomberg west. hbo's silicon valley returning. it is produced by two people who are no strangers to making it big and comedy. mike judge from "office space," "king of the hill,". mike: a second season is the story about what happens to a company. techcrunch just finished. they are a hit. it's them going to the next level. series a financing and all the bad things and good things that can happen. emily: the winkle boss twins make a cameo. and we will see the snapchat ceo at some point. mike this is true. : emily: is there a good joke in this series? mike at least one. :i think it is a good one. emily: it is a joke w

does it help recover from the battle scars you got at groupon?t pretty good and happy about the whole groupon experience and happy to be part of it, and we had a enormous ups, and we had some downs, but that is just part of the territory, and i would say everything about that experience has -- i mean, that was kind of one thing, and this is the next thing, and i feel really grateful to have the opportunity to work on it. it is a lot of fun. ruzwana: you are talking about how technology impacts our experience in the off-line world. what else can we expect? andrew: i am not much of a prognosticator or industry expert. i will leave that to the vc's. brad: earlier in the show, there is all of this consolidation with transactions and travel but people are hungry for experiences, services that give them something unique, and is that sort of a thesis you believe in? we can buy all of the stuff we want, but particularly when they travel, it is something that unique. andrew: i tell you what i think. i personally think -- i feel a great shame every day whe

helping you to recover from the battle scars that you received at groupon?ou might be surprised to hear that i feel pretty happy and good about the groupon experience. we had enormous ups and downs but that's just part of the territory. i would say that everything about that experience -- i mean i did discover one thing and now this is the next thing and i feel really grateful to have had the opportunity to work on it, this is a lot of fun. ruzwana: you talked a bit about how technology is impacting the experience in the off-line world, are there other things that you think will happen? what else can we expect? daniel: i am not much of a prognosticator or industry expert. brad: the point was made earlier that there is always technology consolidation around travel, but people are hungry for experiences that are unique. you are doing that here. is that a sort of thesis that you believe in? we can buy all the things that we want, but that what people want when you travel is something unique? daniel: i personally feel a great shame every day when i go to sleep a

a feline car service to get you to your groupon deal. >> they wanted to trick you into thinking thatoupon is billing it as a revolutionary new car service providing people with affordable, seamless transportation to the best deals around. >> groupon says you can be assured of a peaceful ride because everyone knows cats have complete indifference toward people. >> you can request a cat-driven car through the grouper mobile app. cats might make good drivers. >> perfectly natural i think. >>> target has a plan to overhaul your in-store shopping experience. >> it's called the fanny basket. it's designed to turn target into a grab and go experience. >> the hands-free alternative to traditional carts and baskets you can wear it front facing or even side saddle. >> that's funny. happy april fool's, right? >> definitely. >> actually that's not a bad idea. >>> abc 7 news at 4:00 continues. coming up next, booms in berkeley. the recurring noise that has neighbors rattled this afternoon and what may be the cause. >>> here's cheryl with a look at what's ahead at 5:00. >> coming up new at 5:00 --

groupon has about $1 billion on hand. pepsi quantitative person familiar with the matter, pepsi has signed a multiyear agreement replacing coke or the deal would give pepsi official status. those were your talked stories -- top stories. the company being pushed to spin off its chipmaking unit. and if he the future of golf? looking at deals after a predominating performance. stephanie: we all want to get places faster and cleaner. promises that cannot quite deliver, the transportation of the future will be arriving before you know it. here is some of that insight into what you can expect with a man investing in green energy companies. welcome. when we think about transportation of the future, is it all about teslas? we love them but they are really expensive cars only for a certain kind of driver. >> they certainly are today. the premium luxury market, where they are winning today, that is just driving a cost down curve. battery costs are continuing to decline. not just in the drivetrain side but also with comedic haitians

. >> groupon was that a $6 billion offer from google?ll were buffed $6 billion deals. >> the groupon was a government thing. i think they really wanted to do that deal, and just didn't feel they could get it through anti-trust approval. google tries to do less things that gets caught up in all of this stuff. >> this anecdote is from a book about elon musk that is set to come out soon. it's in bloomberg, and the quote about this said paige said when google considered buying tesla, a car company is far from what google knows. >> and how much, how much times change, right? apple wasn't going to make a large phone. granted, that was tim cook and not steve jobs, but you really have to be careful in technology to say what you won't do and what's too far up field. they did go and ultimately was larry page going into cars. >> interesting, finally, and in case there was ever doubt, netflix will continue to bet big on original content. according to the times today, the company's planning 320 hours of original programming in 2015. that's more than

groupon's businesses are undervalued.is according to jean muster who says that groupon stakes in its ticket monster is missed and e-commerce platform and south korea could fetch $5 billion in the open market. they say they could have a market value of a $6 billion valuation instead of the $5 billion it has today. sprint is making house calls. a could deliver -- they could deliver a house to your door. the nation's third-largest carrier is trying to differentiate itself by allowing customers to buy new phones and upgrade from anywhere. earlier, i spoke with the sprint ceo about the deal and asked him how they protected the program before launching this in kansas city today. guest: we basically started doing this with a very few selection of customers in kansas city. we send them an offer and they ask for a direct to you. we have our trained experts go to their homes or offices and take them to the whole experience. it is a pretty thorough experience. i do not know when the last time you actually went to a store and got a c

groupon's businesses are undervalued according to gene munster who says groupon ticket business and e-commercen south korea could fetch $5 million on the open market. munster writes that the company could have a $6 billion value rather than five million and has today. sprint is making house calls and could deliver a new smartphone right to your door. competition heats up for t-mobile. trying to differentiate itself by bringing the in-home experience to your home or office. earlier, i spoke to the sprint ceo and asked him how sprint tested the program before launching in kansas city today. >> we wanted to test the concept so we started doing this with a select group of customers in kansas city. we sent them an offer. we had our experts go to their homes or go to their offices and takes him through the whole experience. it is a strong experience. i do not know when was the last time you went to a store and got a cell phone but if you are switching from one carrier to another it takes a long time. if you are switching from one operating system to another, say from an ios to an android or an andro

now the organization is looking to the popular web site groupon for some assistance. >> the reality is we have greater ticket availability then we have had the last couple years which is not a surprise. so this allows us to potentially target a population that we normally otherwise wouldn't than able to reach through our regular phillies.com e-mail database. >> reporter: phillies are one of the last teams in baseball to utilize groupon. they have three games slated in may where you can use the site. may eighth verse mets, a 13th verse pirates and 16th verse diamond backs where tickets that were priced at $33 you can find for 16.50. ticket priced as low as 8.50. >> it is recommended to the boyfriend and we are there supporting the phillies. >> reporter: through nine home games phillies are 21st among 30 clubs in average attendance. it hasn't been that low since 1992 the second to the last year of the vet. >> we were actually working at lincoln financial field yesterday and went over and had lunch and we could see that the gates were empty. but nobody will go pay and see that especially

. >> groupon to say that hillary campaign wants to party but the rubio campaign is different. marco rubio: our leaders put us at a disadvantage by taxing like it was 1999. a leader from yesterday -- [boos] marco rubio: she promised to take us back to yesterday. yesterday is over. [applause] and we are never going back. >> their rubio is going after hillary clinton. some say the same critique may work as well against jeb bush, a verbal sleight of hand that barack obama used to make a broad generational argument against hillary clinton and john mccain. my question to you is this an effective he's of rhetoric? -- piece of rhetoric? >> core or immigration, the biggest -- against jeb bush is generational. it is not exclusive to marco rubio. he is the youngest. ted cruz go make an argument rand paul can too. rubio does not have a monopoly. >> one of the most powerful moments was when he said there are people who said i shall wait my turn but now is my time. this will be the room crucible for him, can he convinced republicans it is time to turn to a new generation? someone younger. a

what do you think of groupon?> you know what, i think groupon is just -- it's kind of a breakup story now. so i can't tell what it's worth. it's not really an earnings story that's too hard for me. especially after what happened with yelp today. let's go to kevin in arizona. >> caller: hey, welcome home, jim. >> thank you, kevin. >> caller: hey, buddy, it's spring time. what about sonic? >> it's down way too much. you know what, this is the level that we should do some buying. i know the chart is terrible, but i like sonic. let's go to betsy in california. >> caller: hey, can you tell me if it's a great stock. i'm talking about buy, sell or hold -- >> splupgning is one of the best there is. that's a good company. that, ladies and gentlemen, is the conclusion of lightning round. >> announcer: the lightning round is sponsored by td ameritrade. like a custom screener on your desktop, that updates to all your devices. and you can share it with one click. wow. how do you find the time to do all this? easy. we combined

groupon roku? that's not quite it. oh, i got it, i got it -- venmo surfboardt!ammit what was it again? no, it's got money in it. teflon nickel? >> pastor creflo dollar. >> larry: creflo dollar! all right! i was 95 cents away! how could i forget that name? that's right, creflo dollar, the only mega church pastor to get his name from a list of rejected "star wars" characters, is back! sorry. i'm just having a little good-natured fun with his name because it is objectively absurd. anyway, what was creflo in the news for again? >> this atlanta-based mega church in the firing line after urging its members to fund a new gulf stream jet for its controversial leader. >> larry: that was back in march, and when people criticized him, some of them being kuwait quite debonaire he shut it down faster than a mega church pastor at a tasteful suit factory. but creflo's back, and this time -- it's personal. >> if i want to believe god for a $65 million plane, you cannot stop me. you cannot stop me from dreaming. >> larry: you cannot stop me! you cannot stop me from dreaming! can

attendance mark at citizens bank park, the team cut ticket prizes to half off on the discount deal sight grouponht among the three dates in may. if you are interested get them now, the offer expired at midnight. >>> and the most popular player with the bat in his hands, came alive. the question, was it enough? >> the answer, you will find out in just a second. earlier tonight highlighting the phillies deficiencies with the bat. singles out ryan howard and utley. and one breaks out. utley .091 batting average. the first at-bat against harvey, that is a solo home run and phillies up 1-0. and now tied at 1-1 in the second inning buchanan in the bases-loaded jam and to the right-field corner that brings all three runs home and the mets lead 4-1. third inning, utley again. two homers and three r.b.i.s and phills down 4-2. and next batter ryan howard. two on that was 98 miles per hour. howard seven strikeouts in the last three games. to the fifth, and right in the back of utley. if you think that was an accident, i have a bridge to sem you. and buchanan in there and ben revere doesn't have the best ar

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and groupon has offer for a transportation service that lets you order a car driven by cats. arrival to uber, i suppose. i will pass on that one. that's "nightly business report." i'm sue herera thank you for watching. >> i'm tyler mathisen. thank you from me as well. we hope to see you back here tomorrow announcer: support for "kqed science" is provided by... support is also provided by the members of kqed. sethi: the business of growing food has always been tough. but

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groupon selling a controlling stake in e-commerce. kkr and hong kong-based equity partners.4% stake sold for $430 million. make brick to gain 230 million on a pretax basis. 30 minutes until the close of trading. scarlet fu looking at the movers on this rally date. >> groupon will use the proceeds of the stake sale on a buyback program. stocks taking as much as four point 7% in the left part of the chart. it paired the advance, which has been the story for stocks. for the year it is little changed. moving on ibm, the biggest contributor to the dow jones industrial average trading at a six five before reports of earnings after the close. x acting $2.80 up from $2.54 last year. looking for revenue to drop 13%. rbc capital markets says to look for first-quarter revenue and eps to miss estimates because of the strong headwinds, the negative impact of the stronger dollar. i wanted to bring your attention to google. there is a great story from ashlee vance who reported google negotiated to buy tesla and early 2013 four $6 billion. the stock is up not necessarily on the news that it

groupon selling a massive stake in the south korean e-commerce site ticket launcher. there's like 46 percent of their shake -- they are selling 46% of their stake. the deal veil values to monster -- ibm sales the road further in the first quarter, now 13 straight quarters without any sales growth. revenue, $19.6 billion. down 2%. revenues down a global services systems and software. shares not doing much after the close. joining us right now from new york, our reporter. when i was tweeting about this people were saying it was in line with estimates. what do you say what the results that look so much smaller but are in line with estimates? >> they have come down quite a bit even in the last three-month print profit was about 8%, sales about 4%. the thing that is really drinking on results here this quarter as we have seen a really large impact from foreign exchange. it is a that ibm has been talking about, but it ended up being higher than what they got it for back in february. 8% of that sale was or fx. when you start to look back underneath the covers, the big questi

you report shows groupon market value may be as high as six billion dollars.n monsters that the e-commerce company could the best for businesses including a south korean daily deal site. he says sales could mess the company as much as $730 million. the market value is about $5 billion but munster says it should be 20% higher. sprint is going to start making house calls. the wireless company rolling out personalized service in kansas city kansas and miami, florida and chicago, illinois. subscribers to upgrade my phone with a trained technician that will come to their home or office. that is a look at the top stories we are following on this monday, april 13. coming up u.s. house republicans a vote on repealing the 99-year-old estate tax. doug let death, ceo of lending tree will join us. -- doug lenda. mark: this week the u.s. house of representatives plans to vote on legislation to repeal the is the cap. the plan will effect only 5500 wealthy american household. it will completely eliminate capital gains taxes on assets passed on to the errors. richard rubin jo

like the convenience of it, but there is a little bit of a dark side to it, which is, someone with groupon -- there were all these deals coming our way, but we only had so much money to spend. it is only so much money you have to spend on these on-demand services. it will be interesting to see when these companies run into a wall. brad: the website medium recently dubbed this the "shut-in economy." is it propelling laziness? om: i think the san francisco tech scene, people are used to using the phone and ordering food in. i've lived here almost 14 years. that is prevalent behavior. brad: it is an open question whether any of these services has excessive appeal outside of our bubble in san francisco. uber has paved the way. om: big cities, urban cities have a lot of potential. i think new york has proved over many centuries that there is a market for on-demand services. i think the bigger cities will be interesting. l.a., on not so sure. they cancel it because of traffic jams. urban cities, which are very dense, these kinds of services make sense. brad: this is the first time you have been

no signs, no groupons, no fliers, nothing like that, but if a guy is wearing a costume out there, he'st wearing a costume, just a guy, what's the worst they will do to me now? >> now that i am open and i have got my co and i have got my license, now the real work begins of building a business. >> bud! hey bud. >> all right. it's all up to you. let's go oud and send some people over. >> you know, you win some you lose some in this business. this weekend it was a huge victory getting starbuds aurora open. today i got kicked in the gut. my bank closed me down. it's a constant struggle. it's a constant battle. being a pioneer in the mampb industry, i wouldn't trade it for anything in the world through all the struggles and difficulties, this is something that i believe in and i'm really proud to be a part of it. it represents more than just how this is pot. it represents freedom. >>> tonight on "all in" saddam hussein's men plot to take back iraq, and a report from der spiegel >>> and the former numbs number of times reporter judith miller on the -- that led america to war >>> the next 20

the kurds against the regime in iraq and to but until recently they never really coalesced as uh groupon. and as the defining moment of this transition but with an islamic state fighter. so she was almost entirely funded for the u.s. isn't that what you call this one your party? >> did you see? >> but to join the battle but for them to get together and initially there is no strategic done but changes is to but let's bring our souls of to date. it seems the rise of vices has fundamentally affected and changed cooperation. we the rebel show you pictures. a with foreign policy the obama administration and recent years. june 10th they seized the second largest city. the ire iraqi army is essentially just fled abandoning all the weapons. between the eight years period he invested. but to find out the face commanders or those of their government but then went on the eighth of august to attack. eventually i am on the border and the lowe's like the next day i am scheduled but to this plant it was so wait to the form of national unity before they responded to the acis exit - - events but to the i

oh yeah -- the next groupon. web van. the etoys of another generation. the bottom line is that it's okay to dream big for one slot in your "mad money" portfolio. letton index fund define the bulk of your stock. i'm cool with that. pick some individual stocks for your discretionary portfolio. don't forget to guess of the current era. mike in illinois mike. >> caller: boo-yah from chicago. >> all right. man what's shaking? >> caller: last friday general lecric was up 10% and it was selling its financial and other property assets. this news benefitted the black stone group, bx and black stone mortgage trust, in particular which was also up 10% friday and 3% today. could you comment on the future pospects for those? >> i want you in that for as much as you can get. black stone i liked it forever. people were saying come on cramer when are you going to get off the black stone train. and general lecric i think it's terrific. congratulations we're going for our plan. what was our plan? to say get out of here finance. we're an industrial company. finally stock g

also check out saving sites like groupon or travel zoo for discounted tickets or special packages that the tickets and other drinks keep your eye on the websites because they pop up. and ask family friends or colleagues who have season tickets maybe they have tickets they want to get rid of and maybe they will sell them to or just give them to you. >>> i'm brian shirleen and i are back tonight for a full hour of "action news" at 10:00. on phl 17. here are monica malpass and sharrie williams with a look ahead at 5:00. >> hi coming up next at 5:00, popular weight loss and workout are here with a new study. >>> and flights out of france are forced to be cancels because a strike. >>> "action news" delaware valley's leading news program. with jaime apody, meteorologist cecily tynan, rick williams and monica malpass. >>> a vie loent lent attack in trenton, teenage sisters say they were kicked and punched and had their hair pulled out by a mob of adults. the big story on "action news" is the investigation into this attack at a local park. >> police are looking at video and working to identify

somewhat like groupon.here were all these deals coming our way, but we only have so much money to spend. there is only so much money you have to spend on all of these all demand -- on-demand services. it will be interesting to see when these companies run into that wall. brad: the website median recently done to this they shut in economy. isn't propelling a laziness on behalf of users, or is that unfair? om: i think the san francisco tech scene has always been a shut-in economy. people have ordered in. i have lived here almost 14 years. that is prevalent behavior. brad: it is an open question whether any of these services has extensive appeal outside of san francisco. certainly, uber has shown there is tremendous appeal. om: urban cities have a lot of potential. new york has proved, over many centuries that there is a market for on-demand services. i think the bigger cities will be an interesting one. l.a., i'm not so sure. i try to order food and they canceled it because there were traffic jams and the dis

groupon down a third of a percent. not exactly in the same universe as twitter.ching this closely. we'll take a quibb. againquickbreak. twitter is trading after having been halted. stunning news. an early release. accidental of twitter's numbers showing a pretty significant miss on revenues. the stock plummeting more than 20%. traders. nicole petallides. jo ling kent all over the story. we have the latest on the tense situation in baltimore and how businesses like cvs, you saw it being looted, are reacting to the attacks on stores in downtown baltimore. don't go away. much more ahead as we come up against the closing bell. just four minutes away. ♪ [ female announcer ] who are we? we are the thinkers. the job jugglers. the up all-nighters. and the ones who turn ideas into action. we've made our passions our life's work. we strive for the moments where we can say, "i did it!" ♪ we are entrepreneurs who started it all... with a signature. legalzoom has helped start over 1 million businesses, turning dreamers into business owners. and we're here to help start yours.

attendance look to be pretty low at citizens bank park this year, that's why phillies are turning to grouponso how is this for a deal? next month you can get your hands on tickets for ed low as low as 8.50. the author -- offer good for home games, may 13th, and may 16th. where are these seats located in a. >> exactly, attendance so down. if you look at attendance from 2013 they had about 3 million. >> nerve ' going to group ons oh that's not good. people want to see winning games. >> dramatic dash cam video of police officer intentionally running over armed suspect with his car, what the officer can be heard saying moments before hitting that man. >> and today is the second anniversary. how the city plans to remember that tragedy. >> we are bringing in friends with a road trip starting with good day and at every newscast throughout the day we are taking over a town near you. join us this friday in lansdale pennsylvania. our eyes they have a 200-degree range of sight. which is good for me... hey! ...and bad for the barkley twins. take care of your eyes with centrum silver women. multivitamins

amy: let let's go to richard engel and his groupon being released.hey were describing how they were ambushed by a group of about 15 gunmen while traveling with syrian rebels and held for 5 days in captivity. he then described how they were freed. >> we were being moved to yet another location around 11:00 local time. as we were moving along the road, the kidnappers, cross a rebel checkpoint, something they hadn't expected. we were in the back of what would be described as a minivan. we were driving along the road and the kidnappers saw this checkpoint started a gunfight with it. two of the kidnappers were killed. we climbed out of the vehicle and the rebels took us. amy: that was richard engel describing what happened hours after the release in december 2012. as'ad abu khalil, that description and how much it has changed -- and nbc, they used all of the resources to try to free these men, these reporters. talk about who they communicated with to show how they knew who the forces were, were holding him. the story now is that it was both sunnis that he

google stepped back from groupon the rumors were because they didn't think they could get that througha $34 billion market cap for twitter, a $370 billion market cap for google and a stock deal, it would be 10, 20% depending on what you think the premium will be, google hasn't done stuff like that unlike facebook. they will have $100 billion in cash by 2016 according to the "wall street journal" they could do it in cash, but i don't see it. the government would never alu it. google under so much scrutiny. >> 52 bucks, weird timing for the rumor to be out there. >> given the anti-trust investigations overseas. cramer's point this morning was that it would be highly doubtful for them to do this and have regulators not say, enough. >> right. what's interesting is, facebook is the one who threw down the $19 billion for whatsapp. it would be too expensive for them as well too. no way the government would allow this. the government is all over google for privacy, all over google for potential an be ty trust things already. they will let them buy one of the major three or four companies in th

groupon introduced the world to a cat driver gruber. past customers an their e-mail of $3,500 of miniature horse product. they include a link to a live feed of this supposed horse with the words april fool's stamped on it. who doesn't love something they didn't order and the dating lynnge unleashed an april fool's version for toddlers who want to meet mature looking play dates. >> can i see your i.d.s, please. >> i'm 5-years-old. >> i'm 4-years-old. >> and i'm done with that video. now, there were a on the of these today, google allowed you to turn google map into an onion. they told viewers about a new app that works while you sleep t. car rental alamo claims it was renting out monster trucks. we are all caught up on that. but when we return we will talk to you about a new product just announced that is real that actually a lot of people to the was an april fool's prank but which might actually be the future. that's ahead. audible safety beeping audible safety beeping audible safety beeping the nissan rogue with safety shield technolog

not a lot of movement for groupon. betty: thank you scarlett.ate john kerry got the spotlight during the iranian talks. the secretary is a nuclear physicist who is now providing a critical role in in selling the steel to congress. he is standing by with our chief washington correspondent peter cook. take it away. peter: i know you guys -- i know you have been a busy man. i know you have been busy with the talks p the as you look across the table with your iranian counterpart, were you convinced the iranians were seeking to build a nuclear bomb? bama that was never part of the discussion. our job was not to trust. our job was to put into place a set of restrictions that would guarantee we would come by the transparency and the confidence that they are in fact not doing anything other than peaceful program. i think we have put in place the parameters of a strong agreement by blocking for different pathways trayvon. peter: you hear skepticism that this will prevent a pathway to a nuclear weapon. how are you responding to those skeptics? ernest: we

and groupon appears to be finding -- and wanted buyers appear to be finding their stride. from pimco last fall. and apple is hoping to shorten the lines when it smart watch his stores. it is urging staffers to tell customers they can order it online. apple customers often wait in line four days to buy new products. preorders for the launch start this friday. brendan: coming up at 8:00 a.m., shall strikes the biggest energy deal in a decade. we will be talking about that all day. rahm emanuel is reelected. can he fixed chicago's dash cam nyfix chicago's growing problems? -- can he fix chicago's growing problems? and we look at iran's impact on oil markets. jeff bezos is waiting for approval of his drones, but while he waits he is testing out drones in canada close to the border at a secret facility. with us is our -- is 32 advisor ceo robert will. you have drones, too and like jeff bezos, you are frustrated with the pace of approval from the faa. robert: yes, 32 advisors is an advisory company. we don't actually own drones. we work with disaster recovery and will be happy t

groupon announcing a new $300 million share buyback.ay be better at managing their money than their parents, but they have one great weakness. our senior personal correspondent sharon epperson is here and she has more on that. sharon, good morning. >> you underscore that senior. you know i'm not in this generation that i'm talking about. not just their parents. millennials that range from 18 to 29 years old are faring better than all other age groups and that is according to a new bank rate study out today and an important factor, job security. 32% of millennials report higher job security than a year ago. only 23% of employed americans overall feel more secure about their jobs. now, job security is probably giving them the means to save more. 30% report that their savings are in better shape than the past 12 months and that's more than double the percentage of those 50 or over in their parents age group. taking a look at their overall financial situation. 33% report that their overall financial situation has improved in the past year w

we were talking about linkedin groupon, zynga. how did that work out?a fantastic company fantastic numbers that found a place in the workforce and new markets. it's help salespeople develop context. they found a new market in the advertising business. it is bringing in $100 million a year when the rest of the world's face planting. we will see what they do next. stephanie: great having you on. for me, you're pumping up "bloomberg west" a little too much. we will end this segment. cory johnson, great having you want. have a great weekend. cory: you, too. erik: a real fan would not sit down to watch "game of thrones" with a cheeseburger. no we will show you how they ate back in the day with the author of the "game of thrones" cookbook. stephanie: i've only seen the show once, but i would say you watch that show with a cocktail, not a burger. erik: definitely not a burger. stephanie: stay with us. ♪ erik: the return of hbo epic fantasy series "game of thrones" this week and will surely satisfied hands sunday, and the companion cookbook -- "the fire and ice

microsoft, sprint, level 3 groupon. companies like that.om the best pragues of all of them. as they use our technology, we're aggregating all of the information and we have machine learning algorithms that process that. francine: this is data crunching. >> it is on a massive scale. we have 14 million sales interactions. the salesperson is selling to somebody interacting to somebody. on top of that, we have over a trillion additional data points a month on things like weather and sporting events. we know if it is sunny in paris and rainingly london you should be selling it to london because people are indoors and they are working. however, if it is wimbledon and somebody in the u.k. just won there is a euphoric effect and you should be selling to london at the time. francine: big data is going to be like 80-90% of a successful company. however it means that you're not -- what people want to buy before they even know what they want to buy. is that a fair assessment and how do you turn around that? >> big data is a misnomer. it is storing a bu

. >> groupon says after all of the controversy surrounding uber they've launched gruber. app that lets you order a car driven by a friendly feline. they say all of the drivers are spayed or neutered. it's a burger dock. they hold your burger and drink conveniently within the reach of your mouth. so it frees up your hands so you can still text, type and dial while you eat. >> so attractive. stuffing your face. >> i'm in. >> very cute. >>> well, a new stadium for the as and raiders, one step closer to becoming a reality. the major obstacles the city just removed to build coliseum city. >>> is it a religious freedom bill oral a way to -- or a way to discriminate? >>> if you are marin-bound trying to get to highway 101 right now there is a little bit of a backup at the richmond bridge toll plaza. we'll check this out and check out the other bridges for you coming up. >>> it's going to be a lovely day but there is a little chill here on this first of april. we'll talk about maybe below normal temperatures not only today but early next week. more on that coming up. >>> welcome

the firm's portfolio includes e-bay, groupon even an insurance company for pets. lots of experience. marco and betty you're in the hot seat. >> we know that we have the people that are going to buy the food off the grocery store shelves or $90 bag of freeze dried food. who are you targeting. >> people who have a passion for their pets. we have in our stores they are done by protein type and needs of the pet. you have your products in your grocery store which are okay. with ours no wheat, corn or soy products and $40 bag of grain free dried dog food. >> kelly >> how will you win our hearts and minds. >> we have low overhead. we also have great alternative foods like raw foods. >> you talk about private label as a part much your brand. how are you performing as compared to other brands in the store >> we haven't started our private label. our first product will be raw food. we just started our company a year ago. we just opened our stores. we're opening up nine stores right away in the first year and bringing best in class vendors and then stick our private label in

the firm's portfolio includes ebay and groupon. okay. terry, usual in the hot seat.at to have you with us. alicia, first question goes to you. >> so terry, how do you prevent some of the big name competitors, nikes and underarmors of the world from replicating exactly what you're doing? >> i have become less concerned about the under armors and the nikes of the world mainly because at this point i think if they wanted to do it they would do it. >> patrick? >> at xfund we like to ask, where are the main trajectories of growth coming from? what happens after the north more short? >> we're focused on customer acquisition, driving revenues and just increasing our overall awareness. what's next will largely be determined by our customer base. >> question to you. >> who is this customer and what is that guy looking for in the brand identity? >> i look at the customer as a that off the field athlete. as a former collegiate athlete myself i struggled to find the brand -- a brand to connect with. >> alicia? >> terry, you had a really sick sesful kickstarter campaign. how do y