that's not what htc is about. htc is not for everybody. what we are for are people who want, who value premium devices, innovation. there's a place for htc. and we believe consumers are anxious for that. during our announcement, over 5 million people logon to htc.com here to watch our announcement. >> how many bought? >> how many bought? >> we'll find out. we'll get the numbers. amazing thing, for the first time, a smartphone manufacturer today, the day of our announcement, we made it available. you can go to sprint.com, at&t.com, verizon wireless, you can go in a store today and buy one. >> the thing that concerns me, is you're late to the party. you're coming into a smartphone market where the high-end saturation is a big issue. and i said all along, it's about going back to the place that nokia, years ago, controlled, the small to the mid end. i look at this phone. it's beautiful. but what is different from this phone or different about this phone that is different from the htc one that you introduced last year? it's a bigger screen. a

jason mackenzie, president of htc america.tsche bank, saying the back end could help in the emerging markets. >> where do you they want to be? the phone for the world is probably not the phone for the united states. and what's important for htc is what they're doing out of this company. they're making a phone that can compete. i would rather own samsung. and i think samsung is cheap at these levels. >> i give them a lot of credit. they're going after that high-end. the phone for the world is not the phone for america. that thing is d.o.a. in america. >> that's the smartphone of the year. >> i think it's of like the technophiles. and they're choosing between android phones. they made a decision to not go with apple. >> you look at the other phones. i agreed with you months ago. i still can't get off the iphone. i want to be in a samsung. i can't get off the iphone. once you cut the attachment to this, you're open to everything. >> you need an intervention. >> this is not going to send the market share issue in north america. >>

htc unveils a new version of its smartphone. screen,res a five inch curved frame, two rear facing cameras. joanna stern gives it high marks. >> the software and the hardware design are better than what samsung offers. sell morentinues to phones. that is because of marketing and brand loyalty. ,> get the new phone at at&t sprint, or verizon. apple is rolling out a new feature. can you imagine being able to charge up to eight devices at once without plugging into a wall outlet? that is the concept behind the battery box. those are your "tech bytes." morning, an idea of what the new sandy hook elementary school will look theirarchitects presented plan to officials. the old school was torn down after the 2012 shootings that left 26 people dead. the new school will be built on the same property and it will be designed to be safe without feeling like a fortress. dealing with a man that is a habitual dui recent wasd his most deadly. he was drinking and driving when he crashed into another car, killing a teenage boy. that is his third d

htc has released a new version of its flagship smartphone called the htc one m8. it features a dual camera design. it is counting on the phone to reverse nine straight quarters of decline. the irs that bitcoin should be property, not currency. that means that bitcoin income will be subject to normal federal taxes. investors will also have to pay capital gains on any bitcoin money that they have made. google wants to become a bigger player in cloud computing. they just cut the price of some cloud services by as much as 85%. they're trying to win over customers were storing data as amazon web services, microsoft, and other companies. first, to the top story. cory johnson is with me here. we're talking about facebook announcing a major acquisition, buying oculus for $2 billion. this is a market that does not exist yet. this is not even available to consumers. >> a company that does not make a product. >> they have given it to developers but we cannot buy it. >> this has been acquired by a publicly traded company for $2 billion, including $400 million in cash. >> mobi

htc tells me there are two differences in the way they are telling the story this year.arketing and, secondly, last year they had trouble getting all four in the u.s. at least, getting all four carriers to release the phone and n. roughly the same time frame. this year they've got today, verizon, at&t and sprint releasing it for online sale today and next month in their stores. they've got t-mobile next month which is not that far away, putting it online and in the stores. so they'll have essentially a simultaneous launch across all the carriers which they did not have last year. and so they're banking on the quality, the changes, and the better marketing and the better distributi distribution. >> walt, this third camera, is it revolutionary or replicable? >> i don't know because i don't know what the patent situation is and we don't -- it would take us hours to discuss patents. but it's a very interesting thing. it is a camera sensor but it doesn't take pictures. what it does is it collects depth information and that depth information allows you to go back to pictures y

company aims to tie up with electronics firms, including south korea's samsung electronics, and taiwan's htc to design the smart watches. >>> many people worry about elderly relatives who live alone. they fear that their parents or neighbors could get sick or injured with no one around. some japanese developers are experimenting now with water meters as a way to help. >> reporter: gujo city is in the mountains in the center of japan. its population is rapidly aging and declining. isao is 85 and in good health. he lives alone and does all the household chores by himself, including taking a bath. since june last year, he has been part of an experimental project that uses water meters to monitor his activities. a flow meter has been installed outside his house. every time water is used the meter notifies a database server over a mobile phone network. the server sends a message to his family, and the mpo every morning letting them know he has used his first water of the day. if there is no water used for 12 hours, the server issues a warning. his daughter, who lives far away, gets these e-mails

company aims to tie up with electronics firms including south korea's samsung electronics in taiwan's htc. the design this flood watches. here are the latest market figures the eye. it is. it is. and moving his things. though residents of the dish in japan are debating how best to remember the past. they have different opinions about structures that survived the earthquake and tsunami three years ago. some survivors are deciding on their own to safeguard what they can. nhk world tv chief cory has one man's story on today's edition of the road ahead. june is on as it is his entire life to be content with it. it was a community of twenty three thousand and two of the prefecture. what the cdc new is no longer here the tsunami said pillay. most of the districts. doorways of his reasonable reader read to us i had to be used. next they like to go my story is about one km from the seat it shows how far in the tsunami reached about it. his parents and his brother died in and yam by the minute you all these hundreds of others the holidays are gone gone demolished along with other structures that d

just one example of that is that we brought an enforcement action against htc america, a device manufacturer, because they add certain security flaws in their software that ended up leading to the disclosure of personal information, and so we took action against that. but we feel that all the players in the ecosystem do have a role to play here, and we're going to be on guard through our enforcement authority to take action where appropriate. but then also at the same time we have this policy and research function where we encourage best practices. we've been looking at various new, emerging technology. the internet of things, we actually held a workshop on that last fall to learn more about these technologies and also encourage best practices by companies. >> typically in the past consumer information has been things the consumer's provided to the company or maybe things that they learned about them, like their payment history. so your name, your address, numbers associated with accounts and whether you were paying them on time. but with this new ecosystem, they know where you are, they kno

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that htc hopeses will pull in other early adapters.id the problems that plagued previous models. target will be grilled on the hacking scandal earlier today. the retailer will be performing -- will be introduced before a senate committee responding to the data breaches over the holidays. that is today's company news. and of course, the big company news. wax shock and awe over facebook. the reality is 400 million in cash, technology companies assigned to acquire the brain company of these -- the brainpower of these tech companies. this is a wonderful book, "the facebook effect." mr. kirkpatrick, good morning. this a reality, is consumer product? >> it is not a consumer product yet, which is one of the interesting things about it costing so much. it is not even released to people yet, it is just out to developers to play with. at the moment it is technically not. >> i am curious, david, as tom mentioned, you wrote the book "the facebook effect." what is the effect of this purchase on facebook? >> a great question. one of the things we ar

it is actually bigger than the htc one they came out with last year.y've done with the phone is a lot better. the cases better. it is more premium. the camera is better, the screen is better. the processor is better. the audio is better. theything is improved and just made it bigger. >> it is $199 on contract come of the same as the iphone 5 as. is it worth it? >> for me, no. but it is a great phone. >> if you don't want to go with the samsung galaxy s5, i think it is a great phone. >> you think the galaxy is better? >> no, i think this is better. if you don't want to go with iphone and you don't want samsung, this is the phone to get. >> will it be enough to turn around their fortune? >> the problem is that there have been a lot of great products out there, including the windows phone from nokia. but there is no marketing behind it. , because major issue it's a great product that most people will probably not even discover or find out about. >> it is bigger than my iphone? >> yeah. >> this is the biggest possible iphone that you could possibly ever ha

all of its patents on software, architecture, and everything else, from samsung, five dollars from htc. so, $40 is almost a shutdown price. it disrupts costa goods sold, disrupts margins to the point where it is very difficult to move on. that is partly a consideration of the google operating system being free. apple has got to do something to really change the economics for the rest of the industry. >> you also wonder if the economics change as apple and samsung starts to look downstream at cheaper smartphones with even lower margins and profits available to them, where losing five percent of an operating line is not that big of a deal with 40% gross margins. but when the gross margins fall below that, if they were to lose five percent of that, that could make a difference. >> if you are in licensing, one of the things you want to do is get what apple is asking for, which is a set rise for each unit. as opposed to going with a percentage. as we all know, as the margins or the selling price goes down, the percentage goes down. this way, the percentage goes up if they keep the price. >>

it is not clear whether it will be apple or samsung or htc that is doing very well.ou want to get as much diversification to the risk as possible. be theknows what will biggest company in 10 years. don'tfive to 10 years, we -- we haven't even heard of the problems that we will have to face them. >> absolutely. one of the main things that i look at when i am building asset allocation is not so much with the returns are going to be for each asset class, but how related are those classes, how much risk is there. to interact. we want to make sure with multi-assets that the risk of everything going down at once is as low as possible. if it is a big risk for the market, then you can't help it. in the long run, you want to make sure that you are not too greatly exposed to any single lyoup which might consistent perform badly. think treasuries in the medium and long-term range, yields are going to rise. there is not that attractive an asset class. if you want to have some sort of safe haven, then sure, treasuries. the short and might be appropriate. for long-term investor, i

for example the use of computers nice loose or even htc still forms of the popular back when. yet i think you have the hassle of bed. my computer is then this is the mobile phone use. only two cars history is a lot of things made in taiwan you can see from jordan. okay well be something easy feat for our meal tackle. there are very attractive. there will be attracted to become one the soups and maybe some of the cooking that area i think i feel ok at least some of the bl handicraft good at it from the decade because we got some months after the swim test that is handing it to me i think it could be very attractive to people older than i know with the cooking that baby spice is always yes that is his dad and the whole boat tour is beyond me and he adds he should be a lot of people don't want that want to go to the new majority in the middle east. ih and ix think as many of them and see if any of them i confess this to go back and because it's a baby to come to a deity hysterically at amazing places and definitely worth it. alright i can sign of that the review to take another b

htc watches is one of them. bloomberg found out how they did it.me is vincent. i am the ceo. we have been trying for the last to avoid liquid inside the watch. here we are using liquid to tell the time. innovation is the key thing. hyt is based on innovation. we didn't want to just create another watch. it is all about the design. innovation is the key driver. it is all about the innovation. the hand here indicates the minutes. i can move. hours by the liquid and minutes in the center. if i go to los angeles, i go backwards. my liquid is going backwards. we have something which is easy to understand. to make it happen is like three years of work. is lots of mechanics and engineering to make it happen. >> seems very fragile but pretty good-looking. stay with bloomberg tv. guy johnson and i are back with the pulse coming up next. don't miss our exclusive leahy.ation with terry in the meantime, you can follow us both on twitter. just a reminder, a lot of these european stocks are now advancing. watchinginvestors >> turkey's prime minister points to a

>> is that a -- >> it's a fresh, from the launch today -- >> is that an htc one? >> it looks like it has a big screen. >> this is the phone that's going to aim to take market share from samsung and apple this year. we have them on set with us, with a couple of the phones. and we'll check them out ourselves. >> compare the screen size. >> "fast money" starts right now. live from the nasdaq market site in new york city's times square. our traders are tim seymour, brian kelly, steve grasso and guy adami. old technology stocks are becoming the new momentum names. look at the moves over the past five days for ibm, cisco, intel, and qualcomm. is it too late to buy into some of the tech players? let's start off with ibm. hpq's gain this year was ibm's loss. >> look at the last quarter at ibm.