a has stepped down from the hp board. -- megf questions whitman has stepped down from the hb -- hp boardto see if any kind of follow-up announcement from this big personal change. facebook results also out. line, $9 the revenue .23 billion. daily active users, the one billion mark, it has actually $1.23n at $1.22 -- billion. monthly active users just over 2 that one, beat on too. joseph, to david nodding, the smile there. scarlet: i need to get to the meg whitman announcement. what does this mean to you, how would you read this? >> there is increasing talk that she is a candidate for the uber thing. and hpe.as ceo of hp she is stepping down from one and not the other, as far as i understand it. , of the people, of the people i heard mention as possible ceos for uber, she is the best idea i have heard. it is the kind of thing that would get her excited. i do not know if it would get the employees of uber excited, but it might. the shortlist has fewer than six ceo candidates for this role and the head of human resources said they could hire a new one within six weeks. in terms of the timin

meg whitman is officially off hp ink's board. what does this signal for hp enterprise? is is bloomberg. ♪ emily: meg whitman is stepping down from the board of hp ink. the news comes on the heels of our report that whitman is on the short list of candidates to fill uber's vacant ceo spot. they are hoping to name a new ceo by september, and have noted -- and have shortened it to fewer than six contenders. that is according to a person familiar with the matter. joining me now is eric, finally has real information. reporter: i could not stomach coming on without some sort of answer. what do we know about meg whitman? reporter: she has long been someone in my mind who was a possible candidate. what do we knowshe has been ad, she is close to ryan graves, their board member and former ceo. emily: she is also an early investor. reporter: right. she has been in the mix. she has the statesmanlike reputation. a lot of the pieces you would imagine. but shet a guarantee, is definitely in the mix, one of five or fewer candidates. the hope for them is to get it together before labor d

there is speculation former chairman of hp's board meg whitman could take on the job.> google announced a new initiative to help people prepare for the jobs of the future. google says it's investing $50 million over two years. the money will go to nonprofi i europe helping job seekers find work. funding will provide job training and improve the quality of life for low wage earners. >> president trump making competitive drug prices part of his agenda in an effort to combat the increasing opioid epidemic in the u.s. dr. scott gottlieb says the solution is really as simple as supply and demand. he also says the fda and other agencies should have been more aggressive in getting ahead of f the opioid crisis. >> we need to do as a regulatory agency to bend the rate of new addiction is making sure people prescribed opioid >> new survey out on the opioid crisis. the substance abuse and mental health administration found opioid abuse is rising among americans over 50. >> ♪ >> well, we are now just on zip trip. tomorrow the fox5 news morning team is going to be in congress heigh

and meg whitman steps down from the board of hp ink.ill this be a preview of the bigger move to come? and samsung unscathed despite the crises within the first half of the year. how it has come within striking distance of apple's top spot is the world's most profitable company. first to our lead, amazon shares dipped post market thursday after they reported disappointing financial guidance, especially a potential loss of a third quarter. the earnings per share missed second quarter the lowest analyst estimates. amazon is preparing to step up competition with walmart and cloud computing challengers alrosoft and also that -- phabet. we looked at the numbers. >> this is a company that is investing. there is a cost to all that free video. emily: where are the expenses? specify, but it is video and fulfillment. they are building fulfillment centers closer to cities. that is why they can get your stuff in one day. they're making all of these great shows like "transparent" and "man in the high castle." that costs money. the stock is down 2% ar

emily: meg whitman is stepping down from the board of hp ink. -- hp, inc. will be replaced and remain the ceo of hp enterprise. the news comes on the heels of our report that she is on the shortlist of candidates to fill the ceo spot at uber. they will name a new ceo by september and has narrowed their search to fewer than six contenders. we discussed this with eric newcomer who covers uber. >> she has long been someone i thought was a possible candidate. i have been asking about it all the time. she's been advising travis. she is close to ryan graves. emily: she's an early investor. >> she has been in the mix. she has the statesman reputation, the experience running a tech company. it's not a guarantee that she is going to become the ceo, she is in the mix. one of five or fewer candidates. the hope is to get it together before labor day. emily: david, what do you think of meg whitman? >> i was just thinking there is an interesting analogy between what she really did wonderfully well, which was run ebay and uber. they are both marketplaces. they are both pl

as far as we know, she has every plan to remain ceo at hp enterprise, but as you point out, this resignation from the board over at hp is fueling those rumors. we do know from uber insiders the company is pretty committed to finding itself a female ceo. there are lots of good candidates out there, but the problem is like wittman, they already have a job. >>> the white house yesterday tauted a nou new foxconn plant to be built in wisconsin. you remember president trump promised three new amen facilities, even apple didn't seem to know. this might have been what he was talking about. foxconn does make apple pro drukts ducts. it's just one factory and not three, it's foxconn and not amen but it will add 3,000 jobs. shares in facebook hit a new high as the company raked in money. executives on the phone call with us, the reporters kept trying to remind everybody huge growth can't last but nobody seemed to listen. twitter nurnd its numbers this morning, seems very few people are joining twitter. amazon says it will hire 50,000 people next month to work at ten warehouses throughout the united states, including t

the and barbsto between mark zuckerberg and elon musk here in meg whitman is off the board at hp ink. what that means next. this is bloomberg. ♪ emily: donald trump announced it soft con will held a factory state of wisconsin. lcd monitors will employ 3000 people. that could swell to 13,000. >> why do it here? television was invented in america. lcdica does not have an plant to produce a complicated system. we are going to change that. it starts today with this investment in wisconsin. emily: meg whitman is stepping down. replaced and remain the ceo of hp enterprise. the news comes on the heels of our report that she is on the shortlist of candidates to will the ceo spot at bloomberg. byy will name a new ceo november. we discussed this with eric newcomer who covers uber. someone i long been thought was a possible candidate. she's been advising travis. graves.lose to ryan emily: she's an early investor. >> she has been in the mix. she has the experience running a tech company. it's not a guarantee that she is going to become the ceo, she is in the mix. togetheris to get it before labor

meg whitman is off the board at hp ink. what that means next.his is bloomberg. ♪ emily: donald trump announced that foxconn will build a factory in the state of wisconsin. it will produce lcd monitors and will employ 3000 people. that could swell to 13,000. the move fulfilled a promised by the company's promise to invest in the united states. >> why do it here? television was invented in america. yet, america does not have an lcd plant to produce a complicated system. we are going to change that. it starts today with this investment in wisconsin. emily: meg whitman is stepping down. she will be replaced and remain the ceo of hp enterprise. the news comes on the heels of our report that she is on the shortlist of candidates to fill the ceo spot at uber. they will name a new ceo by november. we discussed this with eric newcomer who covers uber. >> she has long been someone i thought was a possible candidate. i have been asking about it all the time. she's been advising travis. she is close to ryan graves. emily: she's an early investor. >> she has

something her company hp enterprise says is not true, but those rumors got some new fuel when whitman stepped down from her other job as chairman at the board at hp. you'll recall, hewlett packard split into two companies that up until this point, whitman had a role at both hp and hp enterprise. we do know from uber insiders that uber is pretty committed to finding itself a female ceo. and there are lots of good candidates out there, the problem is like whitman, they've already got a job. and the white house yesterday announced a new foxconn plant will be built in wisconsin. do you remember president trump promised three new apple factories which left all of us confused. this might have been what he's talking about. foxconn does make the iphone at it's factories in china. so just one factory in america, not three, and foxconn, not apple, not making apple products either, but it will add 3,000 jobs. >> scott, thank you. >>> facebook is pledging money to help keep elections safe. the company's chief security officer announced the plan to support cyber security education on wednesday. in a blog post, he says, facebook will donate $1 million to

happening >> that's right, kelly this news just crossing on hp ink that meg whitman is stepping off hp inc.'s boardrectors. whitman served as chairman of hp since the separation of those two companies back in the fall of 2015 in a statement, meg whitman saying hp has now been a stand alone company from almost two years and i'm proud to have helped the company off to a great start. she, the board of directors also saying they have elected chip burg as independent board chairman he's currently president, ceo of levi strauss, that's a position he's held since september 2011 so far it's interesting, hp inc. is up about 30%. you've seen the gradual confidence build and the pc in printing and markets hpe up about 2% so far this year, kelly, back to you >> josh, weren't we this morning talking about the ricco story that she might take the uber job. is there anything to read into this news in that regard >> certainly with this news, the same stories she was likely not to accept that offer, kelly. >> yeah, ph saying she has a lot of work to finish here and to carry out. thank you, josh. joshua lipton out we

meg whitman stepped down from the board of hp. the move is effective immediately.p bird will take over as chairman whitman will remain the ceo of hp enterprise. and that move comes amid reports that she was being evaluated as a potential ceo of twitter, david. we'll speak across -- >> uber. >> yes >> that board -- or had considered her they have been making calls. >> i don't know if there is real truth to that from their perspective, it checks a box in terms of a woman, a high powered person i don't believe that's going anywhere, at least based on what i have heard and the stepping down from the h.p. board, remember, it's hp inc. >> the closely watched executive search right now in america. hard to think of another one one last check on the markets. dow closed at session highs. up 70 points of course, the earning paz raid has been busy this morning it will get bezyer as we await amazon, intel, starbucks, electronic arts, mattel and more we'll get "squawk alley" in a couple of minutes. playing ] it's here, but it's going by fast. the opportunity of the year is back:

those rumors got fuel as wittman stepped down from her other job as chairman of the board at hp.ll hewlett-packard split into two companies. up to this point wittman had a roll at boej companies. we do know from uper insiders that ub's pretty committed to finding itself a female ceo and their lot of good candidates out there, the problem is like wittman, they already have a job. shares in facebook hit a new hype as that company raked in money. twitter turned in its numbers this morning, not a lot of growth in the number of people joining twitter. all three industries hit new records on wednesday. then the white house yesterday announced a new foxconn plant will be built in wisconsin. you remember president trump promised three new apple factories and that left us confused. this might be what he was talking about. foxconn does make the iphone and its factory's in china. so not three apple factories just one apple factory and they're making apple products but this might be what the president was talking about. >> trying to refer to, i guess. >> this doesn't officially count but it'

herestion of a little bit because yesterday we heard that meg whitman stepped down as chairman of the board at hp inc. a lot of questions about what her next that might be or whether this is connected to a possible next step. what do we know about meg whitman and her possible connections to uber? debate continues and it was illuminated by bloomberg's technology group, headed by brad over there in san francisco, that she could be one of the key players in a short list for the uber ceo. wind or stand she has been meeting with them. hp -- we understand she has been meeting with them. be leaving she won't anytime soon. they are trying to rebut the rumor mongering going on out there. meanwhile, she does step down from hp inc. inc. has been doing well. which meg hpe, whitman is ceo of, has seen revenues declining. this is a company she has turned around the she needs to study. this is a part of the business she looks after. there have been moves there in terms of someone to perhaps take her role eventually. there was much speculation when , a longtime executive, became president of that business. is he

resigned as chair, left the board completely, curiously, though she continued to serve on the boards of costco, hpich begs the question why should she leave the board of the company she probably knew the best >> look it, after ten years as ceo of a company we had a very pro-active transition, it wasn't quiet. we had announced when i decided to step aside as ceo that i would only stay on the board for a short period of time i don't believe that ex-ceos should hang on the side of the building i think they need to move on so the new ceo has the opportunity to do what they need to do which is exactly what i did. so it was a totally planned strategy over a five to seven year window. wasn't something that happened overnight. >> the insinuation here is that you knew something that others don't, you stepped away from the company entirely, and the stock continued to go lower. but -- >> absolutely not true as i said, the last year i was there, we had very strong performance. >> thank you for addressing that maggie >> you're welcome. >> check out shares of alphabet. the google parent reporting steep drop in

making headlines, meg whitman has stepped down from the board of hp inc., the move effective immediatelyirman hewlett-packard split into two businesses about two years ago and hp inc. is the printer and pc business. hp enterprise is the storage company. whitman -- >> and here comes the speculation right here. >> they reported whitman was being evaluated as a potential ceo of uber. >> you know, she snoknows polits part of this job is regulatory, part is a big logistics business she'd be good at that. >> i'm sure she's very comfortable but you could make a lot more money at uber. >> and if you really think about what ebay was, if you really think about what ebay was, ebay was a marketplace. if you really understand what uber ultimately is, underneath all of it it's a marketplace that's the business. >> similar to the trash business, the dumpster -- this is different. >> not really. >> but there's certain businesses that really work well in this case it's a market -- >> until and unless they all go autonomous and need to own all their own cars -- >> don't you think there's more upside at ub

has already held talks in australia where he flagged changes the board has demanded dealing with critics, one of those critics urging the hp cautious on plans to enter the potash market. elliott says that could be a severe strategic misstep. the stakes onsed brexit, putting a figure on the so-called divorce bill the u.k. would be expected to pay to leave the eu. the economy minister said london must hand over 100 million euros , the equivalent of 100 $15 billion, to walk away. that's the highest some so far mention and comes after the u.k. was accused of not meeting its obligations under the treaty. horace johnson will meet with business leaders and investors who employ thousands of workers. the british government is hoping to persuade them to stay in the country, despite the uncertainty of brexit. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 in morests and analysts than 120 countries. this is bloomberg. >> we have asia stocks extending gains for a ninth straight day, trading at the highest level 2007.december we are seeing interesting moves particularly in the forex space. you have the yuan onshore and offshore ra

hp ink, buy one get one 30% off. ♪ taking care of business >> neil: all right, netflix, additional 5.2 million subscribers worldwide, beating estimates across the boardbullseye, swiss american trading corp. chairman craig smith. no matter how you look at it, people really like something, want something, they'll pay for something. what do you make of that? >> people have to be happy today. and i have to tell you with the shortage on that stock today going into this announcement, neil, one of the highest during the year. >> neil: talking about video on demand and short interest, those betting for a stock to go down, they got their hienis handed to them. >> i'm sorry, yeah. you're viet. -- you're right. and let me tell you, i think it sells a rot. it says a lot. people providing a good product and great service are doing well. i have to tell you, i have to hand it to reed hastings, i wouldn't have thought he could take this company to this level. ee lon musk says my stock price is too high. reed hastings say i'm going to double revenues next quarter to 32 cents a share. i have to tell you, they're doing everything right. and i think part of it has to do